Best/cheapest place to buy microsoft office 2010

Time_to_get_up_and_go_2-2

I have a small office (4 pcs) and we are currently running Microsoft 2003 but we seem to be having a lot of issues so was looking at purchasing 2010 but it's so expensive on the Microsoft website!

Has anyone seen any good prices?

Thanks

sam.wright_2

Hi Emma.

How much is cheap?

Sam

Link here claims to be the cheapest, however who knows!

https://techsavingsworld.com/Office2010.php

Savvy_Sue

Did you see this in the weekly email a couple of weeks ago?

Free Office suites. Before shelling out £100s to Microsoft, try a high-class free download like LibreOffice (powerful all-rounder) or OxygenOffice (good for extras). Both include Word, Excel, Powerpoint equivalents and their files are usually compatible with them. Full help: Free Office Software. Also see Free Photo Editing Software too.

It's not a route to go down without a willingness to fiddle a bit, but it's worth investigating.

teapackets

If one of you has a child with a student email (from school or college or uni) this place is probably one of the cheapest around.

http://www.software4students.co.uk/products/microsoft-office-2010-professional-plus

paddyrg

Home and studeent versions, whilst functional, are not licensed for business use.

oldtoolie

What do you mean by issues with Office 2003?

If it is file incompatibility -- people giving you files written in the Office 2007/2010 format, you can install format converters from the MS website.

If you are using an database written in Access 2003 or earlier, take care. I had to rollback from Access 2007 to Access 2003 because a custom-made database would not work correctly in the newer format.

There are many additional features in Office 2010 -- which are improvements for some. The setup is much different than Office 2003 and can take a bit of time to get a grip with. This is more true for advanced users.

That said, given a choice I would pick Office 2010 over Office 2003 although I'm comfortable using either.

Savvy_Sue

oldtoolie wrote: »

There are many additional features in Office 2010 -- which are improvements for some.

And several steps backward for others. I mean honestly, why is it so hard to add a footer which says Page # of #? And why are there now several more clicks than there were to add the filename and path to a footer? And ... and ... and ...

In other words, OP, expect a few tears when you DO upgrade.

oldtoolie wrote: »

The setup is much different than Office 2003 and can take a bit of time to get a grip with. This is more true for advanced users.

Very true. You need the attitude of "I know I should be able to do this, HOW?" I use the Help function FAR more often than I have previously, and there are some really good tutorials out there for the more complex stuff. You just need to find time to use them for whatever matters to you ...

oldtoolie wrote: »

That said, given a choice I would pick Office 2010 over Office 2003 although I'm comfortable using either.

Give me another few months ...

InsideInsurance

I think for the light/ occasional user then the move to the ribbon etc was a good thing but it does take some getting used to. For power users then there are changes that do make it less efficient than it used to be.

Don't think this is unique to Ms Office in the slightest though! I remember my first job was an old green screen mainframe system with the usual archaic commands you had to enter, no help text or prompters etc for example to reduce the price of an item a customer has bought because it was damaged you either went to the command prompt and typed:

U ItmRed ItemNumber AmountToDeduct ReasonCode

Alternatively you could go to the item in their order history and type:

ItmRed NewPrice ReasonCode

Obviously you spot one of the problems was that doing it one way it was the amount to take off and doing it the other way was the new price - lots of £5 discounts ended up being selling the item for £5

To fix this and to stop people having to remember long command strings so training could be cut they put a nice pretty user interface in where you clicked different options, it would give you a call script and make the decisions for you. So to reduce an item for damaged in delivery you went Complaint -> Item -> Damaged/ Faulty -> Find the item, select from the drop down the damaged in transit, select level of damage/ fault -> offer what the PC told you to click if the customer accepted the offer or not, if they didn't a new offer would come on screen, if the customer didn't accept that it then advised to escalate.

Used to take me less than a minute to discount an item by a fiver for a slight mark. New system would take 3x + that to go through all the navigation, particularly as some were not in the logical place!

bengalknights

Best to use the open office standard if you dont want to pay for the full license cost

motorguy

bengalknights wrote: »

Best to use the open office standard if you dont want to pay for the full license cost

+1

When i was in IT we rolled out open office to 1,200 staff and it saved us a fortune.