Microsoft Office

gerfus

My free trial on Office 2010 has run out.

Does anyone know where to get some cheap MS Office software?

Not too fussed on the most recent version, as I really only use word and excel.

Thanks

G

free4440273

Not MS but a nice free alternative :

http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/

leanneloves

Open Office

Mat_Lock

As leanne said

Open Office is free and works perfectly with all Office documents.

System

Mat_Lock wrote: »

As leanne said

Open Office is free and works [STRIKE]perfectly with all[/STRIKE] adequately with most Office documents.

Amended to correct expectations

GeoffX

I'd with free4440273's link to LibreOffice. It's an offshoot of Open Office and many of the developers have moved to it. If Oracle - Open Office's new owners and the reason so many people left - ever agree to it, then LibreOffice will be renamed Open Office.

spud17

!!!!!! wrote: »

Amended to correct expectations

+1 for that, it doesn't even work with my pretty basic formulae.

debitcardmayhem

spud17 wrote: »

+1 for that, it doesn't even work with my pretty basic formulae.

But not well with VB macros and forms/modules, but fine with basic stuff and it's own macros etc.

warehouse

Do you have kids at school? If so try here:

http://www.software4students.co.uk/

jbreckmckye

spud17 wrote: »

+1 for that, it doesn't even work with my pretty basic formulae.

Yeah. OOCalc refuses to follow some ancient bug in Excel. I can't remember the exact thing, but it breaks compatibility in lots of odd places.

On the plus side, at least OOWriter is a competent document processor. Word falls apart on docs > 30 pages, and lacks the tools for long, structured documents (although FrameMaker exceeds either app in these areas).