LENOVO S340 and MS Office 365

tazwhoever

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-s340-14-intel-celeron-chromebook-64-gb-emmc-black-10194557-pdt.html

I am interested in buying the above Chromebook and wondering if MS Office 365 can be installed. The reason is I have a lot of Office docs on my PC and I have asked stores, but the answers are yes and no. I haven’t got clear answer to my question from the stores. That’s why I am asking you IT professionals!

From the link above, I see you can purchase Office 365 at a discount with the Chrome book.

What is the answer?

What are options I have through Google play ‘Office’ or just installed it through the product?

I also found out there is expiry date on Chrome book! What is the expiry date for the model and what happens after this date? Can I still use it?

I’m sorry; I am naive about IT products.

Thanks

unforeseen

Office can't be installed on a chromebook so don't understand why they have them as a bundle.

Neil_Jones

unforeseen wrote: »

Office can't be installed on a chromebook so don't understand why they have them as a bundle.

Yes it can actually...
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/how-to-install-and-run-microsoft-office-on-a-chromebook-32f14a23-2c1a-4579-b973-d4b1d78561ad

Not "installing" as such the way you see on a Windows PC. more the Android way.

ThemeOne

And if you don't like the apps route, you can always just use Office online, which is free with a Microsoft account.

The online versions have limited functionality compared with the installed versions, but are probably fine for most users. I would imagine the apps are limited functionality too, but have not used them. Can anyone confirm?

Neil49

Here's a link to the Chromebook expiry date list

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366

It has recently been discovered that it is possible to run Office 365 on a very few Chromebooks but the Lenovo isn't one of them.

Google offer their Docs and Sheets app but it is very limited in what it does.

tazwhoever

Thanks guys, one more question -
Which is better Lenovo S340 or S345 (first one is from Currys and second one from John Lewis)?

Plus one with longer expiry date.

Thanks

unforeseen

Neil_Jones wrote: »

Yes it can actually...
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/how-to-install-and-run-microsoft-office-on-a-chromebook-32f14a23-2c1a-4579-b973-d4b1d78561ad

Not "installing" as such the way you see on a Windows PC. more the Android way.

But no need to fork out £60 for a licence

that

you could get a cloudbook, which possibly again poor spec hardware, but it runs windows.

Personally I would look for a second hand laptop, preferably i5-8100 or above, or an AMD ryzen 5 model for about £250 from ebay