MS Office 2010 Professional for £43.99 (normally £429.99) Edited

hogshead

I have forgotten all about this & planned to have DS sort it whilst home from uni, he's gone back & I still haven't done it.
Just went to order what I thought was the prof option & the price is much lower so think I may have done something wrong.
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Please select how you would like your product delivered: -- Please Select -- Download Media * -- Please Select -- joe bloggs* * 1£33.15
Product Cost:£33.15Discount:£0.00Tax (V.A.T. 17.5%):£5.80Transaction Charge:£1.95Total:£40.90

I have funds today, need to order the mail disc copy of the better prof deal as I can't trust myself to doi it myself without messing up.

Did I make a mistake as the price seems much lower. Thanks

bugeyed

hogshead wrote: »

I have forgotten all about this & planned to have DS sort it whilst home from uni, he's gone back & I still haven't done it.
Just went to order what I thought was the prof option & the price is much lower so think I may have done something wrong.
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Please select how you would like your product delivered: -- Please Select -- Download Media * -- Please Select -- joe bloggs* * 1£33.15
Product Cost:£33.15Discount:£0.00Tax (V.A.T. 17.5%):£5.80Transaction Charge:£1.95Total:£40.90

I have funds today, need to order the mail disc copy of the better prof deal as I can't trust myself to doi it myself without messing up.

Did I make a mistake as the price seems much lower. Thanks

The thread is old and the price changes.
Great that it has been discounted further. More money saved :T

Doc_N

Doc_N wrote: »

Sorry to be reviving an old (but incredibly useful) thread, but I'm now looking at the 2010 upgrade options. Am I right in saying that these are the options:

1 Free download from Microsoft
2 £5 download from S4S
3 £8 disc from S4S (anybody know if they add a postage or handling charge to that?)
4 £11 disc from S4S

Am I missing something, or are 2 and 4 pointless, in view of the better options at 1 and 3?

Just for the record, there are no additional charges to the £8 for the disc from S4S.

Puzzled, though - the Microsoft Office upgrade site wouldn't allow the upgrade, even though all the conditions were apparently met. I hope this doesn't mean that the S4S upgrade disc is also going to fail to install:

We are sorry, but we are unable to complete your request.
The following problem(s) exist:

• (*****-***-*******-*****) The Office 2007 Product ID provided is not recognised as an eligible product for the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee program. Please check your Product ID and try again, or check the list of eligible products. If your product is not eligible, you may be interested in downloading a free trial of Office 2010 at http://buyoffice.microsoft.com. Contact Customer Support.

hogshead

Discs have arrived & I apologise for what is sure to be a daft question:
We have office 2007 already installed. Do I uninstall 2007 first in the add/remove programme & then install the prof 2010.
Will my documents on the PC made using 2007 be OK if I remove 2007 ahead of installing the 2010, will I be able to access them as normal after 2010 is installed.

I know they are quite possibly daft ? but I need to check.

Doc_N

hogshead wrote: »

Discs have arrived & I apologise for what is sure to be a daft question:
We have office 2007 already installed. Do I uninstall 2007 first in the add/remove programme & then install the prof 2010.
Will my documents on the PC made using 2007 be OK if I remove 2007 ahead of installing the 2010, will I be able to access them as normal after 2010 is installed.

I know they are quite possibly daft ? but I need to check.

I'm certainly no expert on this, but for what it's worth all I did was install 2010 on top of 2007. None of the existing Word files were lost in the process.

Not a massive improvement over 2007 (which, unlike some, I was quite happy with) but worth doing nonetheless. I particularly like the new copy and paste options.

All credit to S4S - the £8 disc was ordered on 29 September and arrived on 2 October. No problems at all with it, despite the problem I had trying to get the download from Microsoft because it wouldn't recognise it as eligible for upgrade.

sweetheartlmg

Please can someone advise me if I can still get the free upgrade to MS Office 2010 today even though it's the final day (I purchased MS Office fro Softtware4Students a few months ago and it's only today I have installed it on both mine and daughters computer) I have the
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010 Upgrade in my shopping cart for £5, but if I order today will I have problems upgrading due to being so late? or once I purchase MS Office 10 it doesn't matter when I install it on my computer?
Sorry if this is a stupid question!!

Doc_N

sweetheartlmg wrote: »

Please can someone advise me if I can still get the free upgrade to MS Office 2010 today even though it's the final day (I purchased MS Office fro Softtware4Students a few months ago and it's only today I have installed it on both mine and daughters computer) I have the
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010 Upgrade in my shopping cart for £5, but if I order today will I have problems upgrading due to being so late? or once I purchase MS Office 10 it doesn't matter when I install it on my computer?
Sorry if this is a stupid question!!

Perfectly reasonable question. I'm no expert on this, but as I understand it you'll be fine:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/tech-guarantee/

This makes it clear that you need to purchase upgrade by today, not install it. By inference, if you purchase a disc today, you'd not be able to install until after 31 October, so you'll be fine.

At least, I hope so - mine's not installed yet!

hgv

Doc N
By my understanding from the link you gave (http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/tech-guarantee/ ) you are to late to receive the upgrade as the very first paragraph states

"If you purchased, installed, and activated a qualifying Microsoft Office 2007 product between March 5, 2010, and September 30, 2010, you are eligible to download Office 2010 at no additional cost.*"

as you said you have not installed or activated yet the end qualifying date of September 30th has not been met.
Hope I am wrong for your sake.just my understanding of the website info.
:beer: hgv

Doc_N

hgv wrote: »

Doc N
By my understanding from the link you gave (http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/tech-guarantee/ ) you are to late to receive the upgrade as the very first paragraph states

"If you purchased, installed, and activated a qualifying Microsoft Office 2007 product between March 5, 2010, and September 30, 2010, you are eligible to download Office 2010 at no additional cost.*"

as you said you have not installed or activated yet the end qualifying date of September 30th has not been met.
Hope I am wrong for your sake.just my understanding of the website info.
:beer: hgv

I think you may have misunderstood the wording, if you'll forgive me.

It's the qualifying product that needs to have been activated by 30 September - and that's Office 2007.

The upgrade is to Office 2010, and there's no reference to an installation/activation date for that.

hgv

Cheers Doc N I misunderstood your post,when you said you had not installed it yet I assumed you meant 2007, now I realise it is the 2010 upgrade you have not installed. I must take more note when reading.:o