I dual booted and I rarely ever used windows when i was starting, mostly because windows takes a while to reboot.

Have you tried using OnlyOffice? It’s pretty much a 1:1 recreation of Microsoft Office, there’s a flatpak build. It’s scripts are made in Javascript but it seems simple enough to convert a VBA script.

Right click on the panel (Not running application) -> Task Manager Settings -> General -> uncheck “Show Tooltips”