New laptop with Windows 8

teabody

Hi,
I have bitten the bullet and bought a new laptop, however I have to overcome the change to windows 8:mad:

I am keen on spreadsheets and so on and used both open office and excel on my old laptop(free microsoft package as my sis in law gave me one of her 3 keys).
As my old one was vista....I would now have to rebuy. I am wondering if anyone knows where there are any deals on a lifetime home and student package at the moment? or perhaps a better alternative?

John259

If you have the key then you can uninstall Excel from the old computer and install it on the new one, free of charge and totally legal.

Or use Open Office or Libre Office, also free of charge.

What you can't do legally (nor probably technically) is use the same Excel key on two computers at the same time.

ossie

Access your FREE 7GB data OneDrive online at https://onedrive.live.com/ and then click on down arrow next to the title OneDrive for your FREE Microsoft Office anytime any PC! Just remember to log off after use!

teabody

Thankyou John 259,
I think the version i have is too old(2007) and that it wouldn't work on windows 8?
I may take up the advice on Libre office (spotted it on MSE)and use that till I have built up enough nectar points to buy microsoft? Not sure how Skydrive works but I am guessing that the free package would not save to it.
Not that I know how that works yet either but I reckon it will be a great tool in the future when most people have had to update to Windows 8.

teabody

I am intrigued Ossie What is this?

grumpycrab

teabody wrote: »

I am intrigued Ossie What is this?

Not sure if the Facebook page was an accident. He's referring to Onedrive's cloud office thingymajig...
e.g.
https://office.live.com/start/excel.aspx

teabody

Is this a software package saved on the cloud? Not sure how these things work.

John259

teabody wrote: »

Thankyou John 259,
I think the version i have is too old(2007) and that it wouldn't work on windows 8?

It should be ok:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-office_install/installing-office-2007-on-windows-8-system/1d72704d-cc79-4aad-9f9f-2364a898d1ad

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1760842/install-office-2007-windows.html

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/4410-73-windows-microsoft-office-2007

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130920180724AA5pAff

grumpycrab

grumpycrab wrote: »

https://office.live.com/start/excel.aspx

teabody wrote: »

Is this a software package saved on the cloud?

Yes - and locally via Sky(One)Drive. Try it (its free) but you need a Microsoft account (logon).

If you need to edit locally then I guess(!) one of the free office suites will work.

RumRat

teabody wrote: »

Thankyou John 259,
I think the version i have is too old(2007) and that it wouldn't work on windows 8?
I may take up the advice on Libre office (spotted it on MSE)and use that till I have built up enough nectar points to buy microsoft? Not sure how Skydrive works but I am guessing that the free package would not save to it.
Not that I know how that works yet either but I reckon it will be a great tool in the future when most people have had to update to Windows 8.

All of the Office 2007 elements work in Windows 8 including Excel.

I_have_spoken

I have to overcome the change to windows 8

Update to 8.1 Update 1, enable booting direct to desktop. Windows 8 is now not that far away from Windows 7 UI