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best deal for MS Office?

cabunny
cabunny Posts: 135 Forumite
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Hi, having just starting job hunting recently, I was initially pleased that I could download applications from websites. However I only have works or tesco version wp on my pc. I can open the word docs with wordviewer but can't edit.
This is a pain as some sites want me to upload the completed form back to them, so I have to go to the library or something to find a pc with word.
Sooo unless anyone has any bright ideas (that can be explained simply to me!!) I reckon I may just end up buying MS Office to install. Can anyone recommend good deal of where to buy this please?
many thanks :o

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  • Tigsteroonie
    Tigsteroonie Posts: 24,954 Forumite
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    Try Open Office.
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  • bat999
    bat999 Posts: 1,951 Forumite
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    +1 for OpenOffice.
    The word processor package will let you open, edit and save doc files.
    Save your money, there's not many jobs out there just now.
    :cool:
    Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,847 Forumite
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    If you want "the real thing" look for the 3-user Office 2007 Home and Student (Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote), from (say) Amazon* at just under £68. Assorted reductions if you buy other software at the same time.

    * other retailers are available
  • asininity
    asininity Posts: 1,615 Forumite
    Another for OpenOffice, "the real thing" has nothing that openoffice doesn't have for the average user apart from a price in £££s.
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,644 Forumite
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    Another nod for open office, it does pretty much everything that ms office can do
  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,847 Forumite
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    Although it's not what the OP wants to do, I found that 'round tripping' stuff as simple as RTF files between Open Office Writer 3.1 and a Mac caused horrible font corruption (both size and face) that has never happened in several years of using Word 2003 for this purpose.

    So I uninstalled OO 3.1 and put Office 2007 on the laptop...

    YMMV
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