Office 2010

sistersuzana

Hi folks

Anybody know of any reliable sites to download Office 2010 for free or small cost?

Thanks

Bowling_4_Gold

MS Office cannot be obtained for free or a low cost. Try the free alternative to office: OpenOffice. It is compatible with all your office documents and can save in Microsoft Office-compatible formats.

There are also other alternatives such as Google Docs (which is online). Try speaking to your orgainsation about Office 365 and whether they have a contract for it.

keithrgj

if you download Microsoft office from an unofficial source then Microsoft will find out and deactivate it

it is called the microsoft validation tool and is downloaded with updates to fight piracy

-TangleFoot-

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

OpenOffice

Alternatively, LibreOffice. More info here; other options are many and varied, but not quite as popular.

colin79666

You can download a 60 trial but after that you must pay up or switch to a free alternative like those mentioned above.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/try/

Office 2013 will be out soon so you might want to hold off or make sure you get the version of 2010 that gives a free upgrade to 2013. Also I believe 2013 will have subscription options which may better suit you, if you don't want to fork out £100 or so up front.

antonic

Or do as me & my dad did and find a relative who has a child at school and you get the full MS Office 2010 for 10% of the list price

(We got it for £40 instead of £400 last year).

colin79666

antonic wrote: »

Or do as me & my dad did and find a relative who has a child at school and you get the full MS Office 2010 for 10% of the list price

(We got it for £40 instead of £400 last year).

That breaches the license agreement though (unless you are a student or teacher yourself).

WantToBeSE

What about looking on ebay? There are ones like this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Microsoft-Office-Home-And-Student-2010-/110995201942?pt=UK_Computing_Software_Software_SR&hash=item19d7d45f96

although i am not sure how safe this would be?

shaun_from_Africa

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

MS Office cannot be obtained for free or a low cost.

I have a full version of MS Office 2010 Professional plus which I only paid £8.95 for and it can be installed on 2 computers.

This was purchased as the company I work for is signed up for the Microsoft home user program, and this allows employees to purchase Office for a nominal sum.

sistersuzana, it might be worth seeing if your employer or the employer of anyone else in your household is signed up for this. (It is usually only large companies who are large volume users of MS products).

sistersuzana

Hi to all thanks for advice given. I can't obtain Office 2010 via my company.


Cheers