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Home user premium Microsoft Word

lonestarfan
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Is there a discounted word package out there please?
I think I used home user premium 3 years ago. Is that still around?
Any better offers?
Many thanks

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  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 9,755 Forumite
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    Home User Premium? What's that when its at home?

    Sure you're not thinking of Office Home & Student maybe?

    If you just need a Word type programme to type a letter to Auntie Alice then you could use the Wordpad program that's part of Windows already or look at the open-source equivalents - OpenOffice, Libreoffice, etc - which are all free.
  • Uxb1
    Uxb1 Posts: 732 Forumite
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    MS Home Premium was an edition of MS Windows 7
    Maybe the user is confusing the MS office suite of programs with that of MS Windows?
  • DoaM
    DoaM Posts: 11,863 Forumite
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    Perhaps the OP is confusing it with the Home Use Program?
  • techquest
    techquest Posts: 294 Forumite
    Try

    https://www.freeoffice.com/en/freeoffice
  • lonestarfan
    lonestarfan Posts: 1,232 Forumite
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    Sorry yes I meant home user programme
    . !
  • flashg67
    flashg67 Posts: 4,158 Forumite
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    Check if your employer offers the home user program, usually shortened to HUP
  • DoaM
    DoaM Posts: 11,863 Forumite
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    OP simply needs to follow my link, enter their work email address and the website will tell them if they are eligible.
  • Paul_DNAP
    Paul_DNAP Posts: 751 Forumite
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    Don't want to say this too loudly, but I am still using the Office I got under HUP from my old job, seems nobody told Microsoft they they'd made me redundant. So, if you still have the old install disc/file and licence key from when you used it last, it may still work.


    Also, if you have an outlook.com free email, you can get into a basic version of word from Office365 online, for free.
    (Although I could be wrong, I often am.)
  • lonestarfan
    lonestarfan Posts: 1,232 Forumite
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    I decided to go for openoffice.org via download in the end as we don't use word processing very often. seems fine so far. Thanks everyone for the help.
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