How to audit user activity in Microsoft Office?

Question

Analytics

It is required to determine the main tools that users work with in the Microsoft Office suite and the actions they perform in it, in order to transfer some users to free alternatives. Research is required to substantiate the translation.
Are there legal programs or methods for collecting statistics and conducting analytics and auditing on user actions in the Microsoft office suite (primarily interested in Word and Excel)?
For example, it should be assessed whether an accounting employee is able to carry out his main job duties using not MS Excel, but LibreOffice Calc. To do this, you need to roughly imagine what kind of documents he creates, opens, edits, what formulas he uses. A direct user survey is not an indicator that one would like to build on when making a decision to transfer to another office suite.

Answer 1

I think it will be much easier to put free products in parallel and instruct everyone to use only them. In the event that some functionality is not available, users create a ticket in HelpDesk and launch a paid program.
It will be even more reliable to password-protect paid alternatives and open access only by ticket. Then the TP employee will be able, for example, to help find the desired function in a free program.
Most likely, it will not be possible to set up an audit by an external program, and even if it succeeds, by and large it will not give anything - there will be too much data and they will not be related to each other at all.
We have been using free alternatives for about a year now and keep one common laptop with a normal office, this is enough to solve all the problems.

Answer 2

1) to a text editor - you don’t care about relearning the interface
, the buttons are in the wrong places - this is digestible , this also needs to be checked, it is possible that it will not be possible to program for other offices , and well, from which MS competitors seem to have recovered - incompatibility of formats, in furry times the same OpenOffice did not open docX and just doc, etc.