Cheapest (or free) Microsoft office?

dipsomaniac

Undervalued wrote: »

If it sounds too good to be true then it almost certainly is too good to be true.....

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dipsomaniac

Undervalued wrote: »

If it sounds too good to be true then it almost certainly is too good to be true.....

I have used ebay 3 x now to buy the latest office, not had any problems and each copy was <£5.

as with any purchase on ebay you need to ensure that the seller is genuine and has good feedback. pay with paypal and if you don't receive your code, it doesn't work or if the seller refuses a refund then paypal will give you your couple of £'s back.

when you receive the code you goto microsofts website and enter the activation code supplied before downloading the software. once microsoft is happy the code is genuine then you are able to download the relevant version of office.

i do have concerns that you may be downloading some nasties with the software but as you are using microsofts website the only downside i can see is that it is a one time code so if your pc blows up you are not able to use the code again.

so your idiom in this instance (& with a lot of software) is not relevant

capital0ne

LibreOffice of course - totally free :-)

dipsomaniac

Hmmmmmm. Libreoffice free or Microsoft office 2019 Pro plus £2.80

henm2

Just usei the excellent Libre Office. MS compatible and its free.

unforeseen

henm2 wrote: »

Just usei the excellent Libre Office. MS compatible and its free.

PARTIALLY compatible. I would have said compatible with Wordpad.

Robisere

unforeseen wrote: »

PARTIALLY compatible. I would have said compatible with Wordpad.

Until I retired from designing and printing business stationery and other products, I used MS. Office and Publisher. When those products moved on and in the case of Publisher stopped being produced, I used Open Office. I still use OO and have not found anything that I cannot do with it. Downloading the latest setup from Apache* presents an Installation of any or all of the features. These are: -

Writer (word processor) Writer creates letters, books, reports, newsletters, brochures, and other documents.
Calc (spreadsheet) ...
Impress (presentations) ...
Draw (vector graphics) ...
Base (database) ...
Math (formula editor)
All of these can be setup to convert Microsoft Office equivalents. Libre Office is very similar I am informed, but I have only used Open Office.

*Apache has the official download: https://www.openoffice.org/download/

dipsomaniac

Why complicate things?

Robisere

dipsomaniac wrote: »

Why complicate things?

In what context?

unforeseen

Robisere wrote: »

Until I retired from designing and printing business stationery and other products, I used MS. Office and Publisher. When those products moved on and in the case of Publisher stopped being produced, I used Open Office. I still use OO and have not found anything that I cannot do with it. Downloading the latest setup from Apache* presents an Installation of any or all of the features. These are: -

Writer (word processor) Writer creates letters, books, reports, newsletters, brochures, and other documents.
Calc (spreadsheet) ...
Impress (presentations) ...
Draw (vector graphics) ...
Base (database) ...
Math (formula editor)
All of these can be setup to convert Microsoft Office equivalents. Libre Office is very similar I am informed, but I have only used Open Office.

*Apache has the official download: https://www.openoffice.org/download/

so you were not putting together business documentation, spreadsheets, databases etc. but just things that can be printed.

Watch formatting of a slightly complex document fall apart when it goes from Libre Office to Word or vice versa. Or spreadsheets fail because formulas don't work.