Best deals for MS Office suite?

cookie365

loulou41 wrote: »

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

No. Read the FAQ in the link. You are not an employee of the participating company.

paddyrg

I'd suggest O365 - I got a year free with a £50 tablet, so in effect I got a free tablet with my first year of O365. Look out for similar deals!

jeallen01

What about buying a copy of Office 2010 or 2013 - will have a longer support life than Office 2007?

AndyPix

PM me if your not sorted yet

GunJack

loulou41 wrote: »

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

your daughter should be able to, normally an extra £10 for the cd. She should buy it then give to you to install on your machine (from the cd)

jeallen01

GunJack wrote: »

your daughter should be able to, normally an extra £10 for the cd. She should buy it then give to you to install on your machine (from the cd)

When I bought Office 2007 via my (then) company's Enterprise agreement, I downloaded (but did not install) it to my hard-drive, together with the Product Key sent to me via email. Never loaded it on my PC but it installed quite happily on my wife's PC, and has been running fine for quite a few years. Nevertheless I should have taken the CD purchase option so that we always had that to fall back on.


So, when I bought Office 2010 that's what I did and it still runs fine - having been transferred from the 1st PC it was installed on to the current one.


PS: when you get Office via this route, you will (or at least you used to) get the full Enterprise edition - with Outlook, Excel, WORD, ACCESS, and a lot more - but be careful when you install it or you will get lots of stuff (like SharePoint and so on) that is not generally relevant to a personal user at home!

bod1467

jeallen01 wrote: »

PS: when you get Office via this route, you will (or at least you used to) get the full Enterprise edition - with Outlook, Excel, WORD, ACCESS, and a lot more - but be careful when you install it or you will get lots of stuff (like SharePoint and so on) that is not generally relevant to a personal user at home!

Agreed. And sometimes you don't get the option on installation to deselect various items. However, you can usually then run the Change option in Control Panel to remove what you don't need.

jeallen01

bod1467 wrote: »

Agreed. And sometimes you don't get the option on installation to deselect various items. However, you can usually then run the Change option in Control Panel to remove what you don't need.

The "trick" to only getting what you want is, early in the installation process, to choose the Custom install route - then you can choose what you want (and don't) and also where it is installed.


In my/my wife's case, the hard disks are partitioned into 3 partitions (C: OS, Applications & E = Data) and so Office is installed on a folder the partition, and all the docs are stored in folders on the E: partition.


The advantages of that are that there is far less on the C: partition to potentially get wiped/scrambled if Windows goes T**s-up and has to be reinstalled, and/or you do an OS upgrade (e.g. XP to Vista or W7, Vista to W7, W7 to W10) and thus:
- All the main application files on the partition are still there, and so I don't have to think "now where did I install that programme" - although the installation programmes still need to be re-run to get them working again (I even stored the O2007 Set-up files in a folder on the partition of my wife's machine, and so all I would need to do would be to run that from the hard-disk!)
- None of the data files on the E: partition are lost or damaged.


Believe me, I have done all those things and that is my consistent experience (not only with the 2 machines mentioned, but with at least another 4 or 5), and it saved me a lot of my few remaining grey locks!


PS: I used either Paragon Hard Disk Manager, or Acronis Disk Director (Home) to do the partitioning, and I marginally prefer the latter.

bod1467

jeallen01 wrote: »

The "trick" to only getting what you want is, early in the installation process, to choose the Custom install route - then you can choose what you want (and don't) and also where it is installed.

With Office 2007 Enterprise Edition you didn't get a Custom Install option - at all.

wongataa

loulou41 wrote: »

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

There is no need for a CD. Just have your daughter sign up and download the install file. She can then copy that install file onto a CD/USB stick and give it to you.