Office pro plus 2007 £51.00, Vista Ultimate £66.51 .......and more

NilesD

jmarko wrote: »

Open Office is free. You can save things in .doc format. It looks just like the full price brands. It works on all operating systems and it works very well too!

www.openoffice.org

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jmarko

OpenOffice rules. I'm a student, and it's perfect. Free to use, and almost exactly like Microsoft Word.

Horlock

I also wanted to say thanks to the OP though, I've been waiting for Ultimate to be available to students and teachers for some time. Now my only problem is that it doesn't state whether the offer is open to teachers or not. I am the latter.

fuzzgun19

I've never heard of this 'student' one..

What's the difference between this and the one that costs around £170?

scoobie

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

I've never heard of this 'student' one..

What's the difference between this and the one that costs around £170?

If you're referring to the ultimate steal there is no difference to the premium software. Microsoft realise students etc cant afford the full packages, so there are various discounts available, eg the ultimate steal, nhs discount etc

Horlock

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

I've never heard of this 'student' one..

What's the difference between this and the one that costs around £170?

In practice nothing at all. In theory it is the difference in price, and the difference in the people who are eligible for the software. Personally I think that MS are suffering from more and more people having the attitude expressed above. "If it any broke ... "

After all why should someone upgrade ... in years gone by it was because the old version kept on crashing etc, now however, the old version doesn't crash, works nicely and doesn't require hardware updates.

I've just gone for Windows Ultimate though anyway, cos I'm that type of guy who likes a bargain and like to be upto date with "the best" - which I know is debatable.

Finally one other point if you are going to buy office, I'd be wary of buying it from here, in the terms and conditions it states only one computer, whereas the ultimatesteal site gives two computers copies. And no just incase anyone was wondering I'm not affiliated at all, but I did buy the software when it was advertised recently, though I still need to sell my old office 2003 software on ebay.

bright_spark_5

If users buy from this site, is the license perpetual after them complete the course... i.e. do they need to uninstall the software after they finish the course ?

Horlock

bright_spark wrote: »

If users buy from this site, is the license perpetual after them complete the course... i.e. do they need to uninstall the software after they finish the course ?

The license is perpetual, you do not need to uninstall after completion. It is yours forever! Whether you may resell remains to be seen. The older versions of this software allow it, the newest one from ultimatesteal does not.

Paulina_Fortune

Could someone point me in the right direction.

I have a laptop at home that has Windows Vista, and do not currently have windows Office installed on it.

In work, we have Windows XP. I need to find a way to update Windows XP word documents that I send to myself via e:mail to my laptop, and then be able to send them back to work and still be able to update them at work on XP.

What is the best thing to buy for my Laptop, that will achieve this? I think that Windows Office 2007 will not allow me to see the document when I send it back to work.

Help please.

Paulina.

Horlock

Paulina_Fortune wrote: »

Could someone point me in the right direction.

I have a laptop at home that has Windows Vista, and do not currently have windows Office installed on it.

In work, we have Windows XP. I need to find a way to update Windows XP word documents that I send to myself via e:mail to my laptop, and then be able to send them back to work and still be able to update them at work on XP.

What is the best thing to buy for my Laptop, that will achieve this? I think that Windows Office 2007 will not allow me to see the document when I send it back to work.

Help please.

Paulina.

First and formost Windows XP is an operating system as is Windows Vista, Office is the program that runs word. So it doesn't matter which version of Windows you have it will only matter which version of Office or Word you have.

So essentially it doesn't matter that you have Vista.

That said comes the next issue can you use office 2007 (in particular word 2007) to edit older versions of word documents.

The simple answer to that is yes you can, and provided you save them as old style documents you'll be able to continue reading them in work.

The more complicated answer depends on how complicated your documents are. For example if you use equation editor to write mathematical formulae then there will be complications, you will still be able to view your old equations, and in work you will be able to view your new equations but you will not be able to edit them in work.
There will undoubtedly be more problems but if you use Word to write letters, etc you will have no problem.

Hope this helps, if you want any more advice please ask.

Paulina_Fortune

Thanks.

I just want to use it for word documents. If I get Word 2007, how do I save the document as an older version?

I'd appreciate a bit more help.

Paulina.