Microsoft Office

luce181

I bought a Toshiba laptop a few months ago, thinking it had microsoft office. It turns out it's only a trial version :mad:

Anyway, I wondered what's the best way to get office on my computer. The trial version is 2007, which to be honest I'm not that impressed with. i'm used to earlier versions of word which I find much easier to work with.

I only really use word mostly for typing up essays for college and occasionally excell.

Do I have to buy office to be able to install it on my computer or is there a way round it?

My boyfriend has it on his older laptop and if there was a way to copy that to mine I would love to know how to do it!

If not, which is the best value package to buy?

Thanks in advance

Lucy

Edit- have just looked at my programs again and seen Microsoft Works- is this similar to office? Sorry to be thick but I'm not great with computers!

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

You should be able to get a cheap copy by buying it with your college e-mail address.

Failing that, try OpenOffice.

It's free and will probably suit all your needs.

Works has a word processor but you can't save in .doc files unfortunately.

luce181

Thanks for the reply,

What do you mean by buying with my college e-mail address? I'm with the Open University, so don't think I have one!

And what is the disadvantage of not saving in .doc files. Sorry I am a novice!

Open Office I will have a look at, I love a freebie

davester

have a look to see if you not have Microsoft works which is like a cutdown version of office. I have Works on mine preinstalled and also a trial of Office

[Deleted User]

Microsoft Works can open .doc and .xls files as used in Microsoft Office, but it's generally not a very good suite to use.

By being a student at the OU, you qualify to buy MS Office 2007 for £35 from software4students, which you are entitled to use not only during your studies but afterwards too.

isofa

Do you have an e-mail address at OU, ending .ac.uk

i.e. yourname @open.ac.uk or something similar, if you do you can get full Office (inc. Pro editions) for a massive discount being a high-ed/further-ed student.

http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-uk/default.aspx

Failing that you can get Office 2008 Home and Student from Amazon for under £80 (but this excludes Outlook).

Jaffa.

anewhope wrote: »

By being a student at the OU, you qualify to buy MS Office 2007 for £35 from software4students, which you are entitled to use not only during your studies but afterwards too.

I've used them before, their good. Also your able to install it on 2 pc's which is nice

luce181

Thanks, I will try software for students, looks good to me.
Thanks everyone for your help !

-TangleFoot-

If you do wind up getting a copy of Microsoft Office 2007, you should probably read this. It outlines how to save documents in the more commonly used file formats of older versions of Office; it also explains why this is still a bad idea.

robredz

Go to https://www.openoffice.org/ and download Open Office this should fit the bill being both free and legal.

TheFlyingGerbil

One thing to bear in mind is if you are submitting documents via email to the OU and are using Open Office, Works or Word 2007 is that they don't automatically save in '.doc' format, and this may be the preferred/required format for your submissions.

Joe