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With or without Office

Looking for a new laptop as mine has finally given up the ghost.

Have seen one online in John Lewis and the same model can be bought either with "Office" for an extra 40.00. - although I think thismay be for 1 year.

Should I go for this or is the free downloads mentioned on this site quite easy to navigate/download.

All help/comments/advice appreciated as I am not techie minded.

Acer Aspire ES1-512 4GB RAM 500GB
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  • Do you work for a company that is part of the Micro$haft Home User Program? If you (or any family do) then you can get the full MS Office Pro for less than £15 :)
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Do you need Office ???
  • I too am wondering whether to buy office. I don't need it personally as I understand the free ones are fine but am job searching. If I send a cv out on a free version will the company that receives it be able to open it in office?
  • You could always send the CV out as a PDF.
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    If I send a cv out on a free version will the company that receives it be able to open it in office?

    As long as you save any Word-type document as .doc or .docx, and don't do anything fancy with formatting, then any of the free "Office" packages will be fine. Of course if you save as .pdf (as would be read by Adobe Reader) then all your formatting should be fine.

    That said, not all companies will accept CVs in PDF form - they want Word-type so they can easily cut/paste details into their own systems.
  • If they have Office 2013, they can open the PDF as a Word Doc, and cut/paste from there.
  • A._Badger
    A._Badger Posts: 5,879 Forumite
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    Open Office works well enough for most purposes and is free.
  • Always send CV as a PDF
  • bluesnake
    bluesnake Posts: 1,460 Forumite
    I would say keep the £40, especially if is the yearly subscription one.

    Also next year sometime they will be releasing windows 10. Windows 10 will be free to end users. Probably. Almost certainly. Any software that you purchase may not work on this new version of o/s
  • RumRat
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    bluesnake wrote: »
    I would say keep the £40, especially if is the yearly subscription one.

    Also next year sometime they will be releasing windows 10. Windows 10 will be free to end users. Probably. Almost certainly. Any software that you purchase may not work on this new version of o/s
    I doubt that will be the case.
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