MS Office 2019 Home & Student -- as cheap as possible?!

IntotheAbyss

[Deleted User] said:

I've been buying my licence keys from these guys for years, not had any issues:

https://theunitysoft.com/product/microsoft-office-home-student-2019-1-pc-for-windows/

+1 for The Unity Soft (formally Software Geeks). Used them for years, never had any issues.

JustAnotherSaver

Emmia said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

Why has nobody said libreoffice yet? 

Because it isn't MS Word or MS Excel which are the programmes the OP wants to brush up on.

I'm well aware of that. 

From past experience though this gets disregarded somewhere along the line. Usually at the very start for me. And people will start talking about alternatives to MS Office. 

Same with when you ask a Windows question. Someone will try steer you on to Linux at some point. 

pat1976

It does seem sensible to discuss alternatives, the poster may not be aware. 

Just for brushing up on skills, the poster may want to use Google sheets and docs for free, they have very similar functionality to the MS software and the difference is no worse than learning on one version of MS and having to work in another. 

coffeehound

Heard they are changing from VB to Python for macros soon.  That'll hack a few people off.

esuhl

Wow! Thank you all for your replies! :-D

pat1976 said:

It does seem sensible to discuss alternatives, the poster may not be aware. 

Just for brushing up on skills, the poster may want to use Google sheets and docs for free, they have very similar functionality to the MS software and the difference is no worse than learning on one version of MS and having to work in another.

Thanks, but I really need the latest versions of Word and Excel.

Back in the day, I knew Office '97 and 2003 inside out.  I had dozens (hundreds?) of VBA functions and macros. Alas, I fear I might have forgotten everything I knew. :-(

coffeehound said:

Heard they are changing from VB to Python for macros soon.  That'll hack a few people off.

Oh, crumbs!  Does Office 2019 still use .NET...?  I thought learning that would be the way to go.  Maybe I should just skip ahead and learn Python instead...? :-/

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Cheers for all the suggestions, everyone.  I ended up getting a key from PremiumCDKeys.com. for €13.95 (using the "15% off" discount code CSEEKER).  The key failed, so I emailed them (at 7am).  Five minutes later they replied, asking for a screenshot, which I sent.  Another five minutes later, I got a key that worked.  :-)

unforeseen

Cheers for all the suggestions, everyone. I ended up getting a key from PremiumCDKeys.com. for €13.95 (using the "15% off" discount code CSEEKER). The key failed, so I emailed them (at 7am). Five minutes later they replied, asking for a screenshot, which I sent. Another five minutes later, I got a key that worked. :-)

Which seems to indicate that their keys do not always (ever?) come from legitimate sources. 

coffeehound

esuhl said:

coffeehound said:

Heard they are changing from VB to Python for macros soon.  That'll hack a few people off.

Oh, crumbs!  Does Office 2019 still use .NET...?  I thought learning that would be the way to go.  Maybe I should just skip ahead and learn Python instead...? :-/

Sorry, scratch that - just double checked.  I had misinterpreted a heading that said "Python to replace VBA in Excel."  I thought it was a news story, but in fact it was a tutorial  

rdr

Jon_01 said:

Bought a Pro 2019 from Ebay for 3 quid a few weeks back, working fine.
All the Ebay sellers you'll see will be marked as 'New' as Ebay close them down within hours of them opening up as they don't like key sellers. . .

I bought both Windows 10 and office 2019 pro from similar vendors for a couple of quid each. They are both working fine and microsoft seem the take the attitude "if it's activated it's fine." Just to make it even more money saving ebay refunded me when they closed the sellers down.

ChrisWatson3

Ms word is best but the Google Docs is almost like MS word, We can use Google Docs in and Google Office suite as the alternative to MS Office. 

Chino

ChrisWatson3 said:

Ms word is best but the Google Docs is almost like MS word

Does Google Docs now support the generation of a table of contents natively? It didn't when I used it, requiring the use of a third-party extension. I found Google Docs to be a poor substitute for Microsoft Word.