Office 365

Newusername1

On the dole (well ESA) and paying £5 p/m for Office 365 suite, is this the best (or only) price?

agrinnall

No, but you may not qualify for better prices - I paid £60 for 4 years subscription to 365 University, but you need an education email address to get it. In your ciscumstances you would be better to ditch Office and use a free alternative, LibreOffice is probably the most recommended one.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Newusername1

agrinnall wrote: »

No, but you may not qualify for better prices - I paid £60 for 4 years subscription to 365 University, but you need an education email address to get it. In your ciscumstances you would be better to ditch Office and use a free alternative, LibreOffice is probably the most recommended one.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Problem is i'm big into studying excel, LibreOffice would probably do for everything else, but i'm big into excel, i'm a chartered accountant by trade, so currently whilst on ESA doing a fair amount of study of excel.

The thing is I don't need Office 365, I could do with say an earlier version...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Microsoft-Pc-Office-2007-Standard-Word-Excel-PowerPoint-Outlook-XP-Vista-7-8-10-/272576317999?hash=item3f76d08a2f:g:8EUAAOSwWxNYsZg9

Would there be any problems running that. £28 one off?.

dipsomaniac

is excel online a option? i haven't used it so don't know its limitations but just opened a workbook and it seems to have most of the functions

grumpycrab

Or Office 2010 $20, Office 2013 $30 @reddit

Or Office 2010 Starter (free); functionality limited so need to test it.

Newusername1

dipsomaniac wrote: »

is excel online a option? i haven't used it so don't know its limitations but just opened a workbook and it seems to have most of the functions

It looks like limited functionality, but thanks.

Newusername1

grumpycrab wrote: »

Office 2013 $30 @reddit

What does that mean?, whats reddit?, on ebay they are selling keys but is this sort of thing legal?.

Newusername1

grumpycrab wrote: »

Or Office 2010 Starter (free); functionality limited so need to test it.

Can't test it (office 2010), won't let me install a 32bit program because i've got a 64bit office 365 installed, but I assume limited functionality, Word etc would be useful even with limited functionality.

grumpycrab

And note its only Word + Excel.

grumpycrab

The rights and wrongs of reusing OEM licenses has been discussed often; reddit is offering the same as Ebay in this respect
https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftsoftwareswap/
For discussions about legality see, for example,
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/microsoft-office-2013-professional-plus-6-99-ebay-mega-computer-from-3-69-2609338

Newusername1

grumpycrab wrote: »

And note its only Word + Excel.

I'm quite happy with just word and Excel, the rest I don't use, but if I manage to load it, excel has limited functionality, well its not much use.