Microsoft Office (Windows) recent ish version for a micro business

ThemeOne

If you're really strapped for cash, and don't need some of the more advanced features you might be able to just use MS Office Online for free.

System

ThemeOne wrote: »

If you're really strapped for cash, and don't need some of the more advanced features you might be able to just use MS Office Online for free.

If a business has to resort to using free versions online or buying dodgy grey market keys then they need to consider whether or not the business is viable enough to continue.

ThemeOne

Tarambor wrote: »

If a business has to resort to using free versions online or buying dodgy grey market keys then they need to consider whether or not the business is viable enough to continue.

It's generous of you to give business advice, but I believe the OP was only looking for technical advice.

datostar

that wrote: »

or from ebay 5 licences which apparently does not expire for £1.55 with 5TB
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/INSTANT-Microsoft-Office-365-2016-2019-Pro-Key-PC-Mac-Windows-5TB-5User-Lifetime/392211922796

if it is not your company, pay the full whack, or the saving on ebay may come back to haunt you.

To be honest, just 5tb storage alone at this price could be worth it

Every chance that this will be a pre-registered version making you an additional user on an educational licence. Someone (possibly the seller) will be registered as the master user and theoretically could knock you off. Certainly you get to use it on 5 devices and get the 5TB OneDrive on all your 5 accounts along with Skype for Business. Probably OK for home use without trusting really important data to OneDrive but risky for critical business use.

zaax

If its just to write letters and do simple book keeping libreoffice is good, but if you need advance mathmatics excel is better

Pennywise

I'm still running my 2003 version in my business and it's absolutely fine - it imports/exports to other software and does exactly what I need it to do including running perfectly on latest windows operating software. I've look at later versions several times, but there's nothing I actually need and most of the "improvements" are gimmicky, not to mention far slower loading up times.

AndyPix

^^ What do you use for opening the docx and xlsx format that all versions of office since 2010 use ?

Neil_Jones

AndyPix wrote: »

^^ What do you use for opening the docx and xlsx format that all versions of office since 2010 use ?

There is a converter you can download for 2003 that will open the docx and xlsx file formats. And those file formats were introduced in 2007, not 2010

The only exception is Publisher. Nothing opens Publisher files except Publisher and an older version of Publisher cannot open anything newer than its own. So for example Publisher 2003 will only open Publisher files from 2003 or older.

AndyPix

Neil_Jones wrote: »

There is a converter you can download for 2003 that will open the docx and xlsx file formats. And those file formats were introduced in 2007, not 2010

The only exception is Publisher. Nothing opens Publisher files except Publisher and an older version of Publisher cannot open anything newer than its own. So for example Publisher 2003 will only open Publisher files from 2003 or older.

Huh , you're right !! 2007 .. I dont know why i had 2010 in my head .. thanks for that
The question still stands though , Theres no way I would piddle about with converters etc when newer office can easily be had for free.


On top of that , I know of at least 5 fatal bugs in office 2003 that have not and will never now be patched .. So that on its own is reason enough to think about upgrading