Help with Microsoft office

Sinhanada

You can use Google Apps which I believe is free and allows you to use it for editing office documents. Also comes with storage too.

I would suggest however that if you have one PC only then buying the physical Office (MS 2010)

ebaybaby

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Do you still have the original key that you used when you installed it?

If you have, Microsoft will send you the download to replace it free of charge.

No i dont

giraffe69

365 is pretty much a virtual app, so it's not installed on your PC. For £80 you get access to it for a year (it's an annual subscription) on any PC, but the £219 one is the full package.

It's installed on my machine. I can see all the executable files and I have the version which can be used on 5 PCs and is renewable each year.

elektra

ebaybaby wrote: »

Thankyou.
Im looking for the cheapest option tbh. I dont even mind if its the 2007 version. I mostly need it for the kids for school and my general day to day office type stuff. Someone gave me the last one (they had 3 user and let me use one). But a fault on my pc meant I have had to restore back to factory settings and no longer have it.
What would you recomend?

BIB1 - I think free qualifies as cheapest !

BIB2 - Try Libre Office http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ or
OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/

as the MSE article suggests ( and other posters above) it is compatible with Microsoft version.

You have nothing to lose by downloading and testing it out

ebaybaby

We have tried open office in the past but it didnt work when say they wanted to open a powerpoint doc in school??

DCodd

OP, if you are intent on having Microsoft and not using the free options (I have openoffice and have had no issues what so ever), then google student discounts before you pay top money.

POPPYOSCAR

I recently had to buy Microsoft office for my IMac when the hard drive had to be replaced.

Microsoft sent me a download replacement but when my Mac was repaired they updated the system so it was not compatible.

I ended up getting Office for Mac half price at Tesco and £10 off with voucher so it is worth shopping around.

if you are ok with an old version you will probably pick one up cheap on ebay.

ebaybaby

Thanks, will trydownloading Libre now and see how we get on.
Just seen you can have a student discount on microsoft, thaks DCodd.

WTFH

The equivalent of powerpoint is Impress:
http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html

".ppt & .pptx support - Of course, you are free to import your old Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, or save your work in PowerPoint format for sending to people who are still using Microsoft products."

DCodd

ebaybaby wrote: »

Thanks, will trydownloading Libre now and see how we get on.
Just seen you can have a student discount on microsoft, thaks DCodd.

Just for reference. You have to save the document in Open Office as a microsoft office document i.e. .docx for a word document etc for it to be compatible.