The Ultimate Steal is back (Microsoft Office Ultimate for £38.95)

Secret_Lady

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Ultimate steal? Not quite.. i bought this using the home/corporate license scheme and it cost me £17.99

Do you have a link or an address to find this please?

linni

Got mine from Software4students, good price, but look out for the £££ admin fee when you start to pay!! It is only a few quid but I think it should be clearly stated before you order...

Sol00

Anyone had any problems installing this? After it's downloaded and I try to install it, it says it can't be installed and closes.

Helix

Sol00 wrote: »

Anyone had any problems installing this? After it's downloaded and I try to install it, it says it can't be installed and closes.

I have had a few problems with installing it. You need to make sure you have a good amount of space free on the hard drive (about 2gb) even if you aren't installing all the programs. This is because the installer has been compressed a lot and when you come to install it, it needs to be able to expand to access all the files within it.

If you have plenty of space then try downloading it again. The download for it seems to get corrupted very easily. I managed to fix it by just downloading it again.

bestpud

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Ultimate steal? Not quite.. i bought this using the home/corporate license scheme and it cost me £17.99

How annoying is it when people post things like this and then give no further information?!!

If it something many will be able to access then why not say how?

If it something very few will have any chance of getting, can I ask what the point is in coming on here and telling people the ultimate steal is not as good as it looks??

FWIW, the ultimate steal is likely the cheapest way most people will be able to access Office legitimately. It's a very good deal imo. I've had it a year now and had no problems with it.

Sol00 - we had some problems with an older version of outlook we had. In the end we had to uninstall all previous versions and then it downloaded ok. But the older outlook came as an added extra with 'onenote' (I think) and we could not completely uninstall it without using the 'onenote' disk. Do you have any older versions on your pc?

richev

I have never heard of
Groove 2007
InfoPath 2007
OneNote 2007


what are those programs ?
i am starting uni soon so i may gett his. but i have word excel etc 2003
what is the difference between 2003 and 2007 apart from them being newer lol.
is the difference enough to warrant purchasing the newer version ?

and do you not get cd ? you pay and then have to download it ?

farso

Groove - software for sharing and working on stuff in groups.. not sure you will use it

Infopath - Software for writing survey forms, could possibly be useful to you in projects etc.

OneNote - You can not do without this program!! Its designed for taking notes and organising ideas, basically, if you in a lecture, you can get it to record whats being said, can write notes (as ive got a tablet) or can type them. Then you can search through them all and make it dead easy for course revision.

Id personally say that the differnce is good once you have got used to the new interface. My uni is still working on 2003, but will be converting to 2007 over the course of this year. The main diffence is that its much easier to get what you want presented in the way you want it.. ovbiously the content of what you write is still up to you

Theres no cd included in the £38 version, its anouth £8 more for a dvd posted to your door, which i took the option of, but is pretty unncessecary as once you have your cd key then you could download it again in the future easily.

Helix

farso wrote: »

Theres no cd included in the £38 version, its anouth £8 more for a dvd posted to your door, which i took the option of, but is pretty unncessecary as once you have your cd key then you could download it again in the future easily.

Unless it has changed this year then you can't download it again once 30 days are up. So its best to burn the installer to CD incase you ever need to install it again.

bestpud

Helix wrote: »

Unless it has changed this year then you can't download it again once 30 days are up. So its best to burn the installer to CD incase you ever need to install it again.

I'm not sure what you mean by this?

We re-booted our pc about 6 months after buying the ultimate steal and downloaded it from the site, then put the registration key in, no problem.

We did the same on the laptop after replacing the hard drive - that was about 4-5 months after buying it.

As long as you have the key it is fine in my experience. I bought it this time last year.

ImperialStudent

If you don't need to use 'OneNote' then you can download a free word, database, spreadsheet, presentation package from http://www.openoffice.org/.

As long as you save your work as .doc files (which you simply select from the drop down list on the 'save as' menu) whilst using this, your documents will work if you open them on a school or university computer so you shouldn't have any problems there.

As for using the software, the programs are so similar to the Microsoft versions that you don't have to learn anything new, it's just like using Microsoft word, excel, access and powerpoint.

I have been using it for a few weeks and would definitely recommend that you download it and try it before spending £40 on Microsoft Office.