Best deals for MS Office suite?

andygb

I need to buy/load a very recent version of MS Office onto our Windows 10 PC, so where is the best place to buy it?
I know that I can buy it yearly (around £49.99) or without having to renew it (around £119.99), but are there any better offers.
I would load our MS Office 2000 on, but the OH cannot load many documents or excel stuff.

NiftyDigits

Office 2007 onwards...

jshm2

Office 365 you can pay as you go.

To buy the suite without paying full RRP you can go through an MSP. Else if you have a kid in college or in the NHS/civil service you can use their HUP offer.

John_Gray

Why do you really need Microsoft Office?

Do you know that LibreOffice (free) doesn't work for what you want to do?
It might be worth a quick try...

esuhl

andygb wrote: »

I would load our MS Office 2000 on, but the OH cannot load many documents or excel stuff.

Have you tried installing a compatibility pack?

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Open-a-Word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-Word-8fe47805-64a9-4cc5-a115-b148625fe043

Lorian

If either of you use office at work, and the employer has an enterprise agreement and signed up for the office at home programme you might be able to get office 2016 for £9.95 - worth checking as first stop


http://www.microsofthup.com/hupuk/home.aspx?country_id=GB

henm2

Just use Libre Office for free. I have used it for years and the way I have set it up it opens and saves to Microsoft Office formats automatically.

esuhl

henm2 wrote: »

Just use Libre Office for free. I have used it for years and the way I have set it up it opens and saves to Microsoft Office formats automatically.

LibreOffice is okay for simple documents, but it's not fully compatible with Microsoft Office, so isn't always an option.

andygb

esuhl wrote: »

LibreOffice is okay for simple documents, but it's not fully compatible with Microsoft Office, so isn't always an option.

Thanks for the advice on the earlier versions compatibility fixes, I will try that tomorrow.

Jivesinger

Office 2007 is only supported until 10 October 2017, which is a little under 15 months away. If you're paying for Office 2007 then it would be worth comparing with the price of 15 months of Office 365.

It will most likely still work after that date, but it would stop getting security patches and therefore be more vulnerable to attack.

loulou41

Lorian wrote: »

If either of you use office at work, and the employer has an enterprise agreement and signed up for the office at home programme you might be able to get office 2016 for £9.95 - worth checking as first stop


http://www.microsofthup.com/hupuk/home.aspx?country_id=GB

My daughter can get office for £9.95 at work, can she forward the link for me to buy as it is in her work mail address. It comes as a download does anybody know whether you can request I as a cd? Thanks