Microsoft Office software needed

wazza

Friend's daughter needs microsoft office to do her school work. Have suggested free alternatives like openoffice etc but she has trouble using the openoffice file at school.

Any idea where i can obtain a Microsoft Office at an acceptable price?

santer_2

One option

http://www.software4students.co.uk/Microsoft_Office_2010-software.aspx

Need to decide soon as the licensing is changing

£38 or so

Get the disc sent

wazza

santer wrote: »

software4students.co.uk

Need to decide soon as the licensing is changing

£38 or so

Have visited the website but it is out of stock

santer_2

email them to check if it will be back in stock, otherwise it may need to be the £80 University version, though check school students qualify

Bogtrotter

wazza wrote: »

Have visited the website but it is out of stock

I'm afraid you're out of luck. I believe Microsoft are changing the licensing of the office software for educators and students from 1st April so the software4students won't be doing the £38 Full Office Professional again unless Microsoft have a change of heart

santer_2

See if she gets on with Libre Office

http://www.libreoffice.org/features/

zenmaster

wazza wrote: »

Friend's daughter needs microsoft office to do her school work. Have suggested free alternatives like openoffice etc but she has trouble using the openoffice file at school.

Any idea where i can obtain a Microsoft Office at an acceptable price?

Presumably, by the highlighted bit, you mean she has saved a file at home and can't read it back at school?

If that is the case then, when she saves the file, she needs to select the correct file format from the "save as" dialogue box. I can't remember off the top of my head how they phrase it but she needs either ".doc" or ".docx" format. OpenOffice uses it's own format by default.

aerostar

If she saves in .doc format it should be OK for most versions, old and new, of Word.

cgk1

See if the school has an agreement to buy office cheaply - many schools and universities do - the last copy of office I purchased cost me £8.

J_B

aerostar wrote: »

If she saves in .doc format it should be OK for most versions, old and new, of Word.

+1

Tell M$ to 'take a hike'

macman

wazza wrote: »

Friend's daughter needs microsoft office to do her school work. Have suggested free alternatives like openoffice etc but she has trouble using the openoffice file at school.

Any idea where i can obtain a Microsoft Office at an acceptable price?

All she needs to do is change the defaults in OO so that it saves Word files as .doc or .docx and Excel files as .xls or .xlsx. Method as below.
It's not OO that is the problem, it's MS Office, because it won't open native OO files.
Once she does that,, she won't have 'OO files' at school, because they will be exactly the same as native MS Office files-no-one will know what software they were created on.

'To change or set default file saving or “save as” format for new files in OpenOffice.org:

1. Launch any OpenOffice.org application such as OpenOffice Writer.
2. Click on Tools and then Options.
3. Expand the Load/Save section in the left pane by clicking the + (plus sign).
4. Click on General under the Load/Save section.
5. In the area labeled as “Default file format” near the bottom of the dialog window, select the type of document you want, for example, Text Document for Writer files, in the Document Type drop-down list.
6. To the right dropdown list labeled as “Always save as”, change or select the format as “Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP”.
7. Repeat the above 2 steps for other documents such as spreadsheets or presentations that you want to save in Microsoft Office file format, and select the appropriate default save as format for them.
8. Click OK to save the settings.
9. From now on, whenever you want to save a document, the default format will be .doc, .xls or .ppt and other Microsoft Office file formats and extensions.'