Microsoft office

cherry76

Looking to buy a new Mac.I will also need Microsoft office installed esp word. Does anybody know where I could buy at a reasonable price.So many on eBay and Amazon, not sure whether it will work. Thanks

Keep_pedalling

Why do you specifically need MSO rather than an alternative office suite? 

Heedtheadvice

Or not use an online version?

But if is an installed app....

GDB2222

You can buy Word direct from MS for £70, and it will definitely work.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/p/word-home/cfq7ttc0p9wl

You may find it a little cheaper elsewhere. 

You can also get it much more cheaply at other places, but these will not be genuine licences. They will work initially, and maybe even for a long time, but there is a risk. Typically these are corporate licences being misused. But they are much much cheaper. I haven’t checked but they might be £5-10. I can’t see any reason to buy a more expensive non genuine licence, as it will still have the same risk. 

Neil_Jones

GDB2222 said:

You can buy Word direct from MS for £70, and it will definitely work.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/p/word-home/cfq7ttc0p9wl

You may find it a little cheaper elsewhere. 

You can also get it much more cheaply at other places, but these will not be genuine licences. They will work initially, and maybe even for a long time, but there is a risk. Typically these are corporate licences being misused. But they are much much cheaper. I haven’t checked but they might be £5-10. I can’t see any reason to buy a more expensive non genuine licence, as it will still have the same risk. 

This may be true of the likes of eBay but Amazon (themselves, not people on the Marketplace) sells Office as well and quite often undercuts MS price.  On Prime Day or similar flash sales it can be as low as half price or even slightly less than that.

Billxx

For £85pa you can get a MS Office personal subscription.  You get all their apps including Word and Excel for 5 devices. Plus 1TB of secure cloud storage. £8.49pm if you prefer to pay monthly.

Brie

Would Microsoft products work on a Mac?  We always have  a problem trying to pass documents back and forth in my family as some have apple products and the rest of us don't.

MikeJXE

Yes they do but not to the same degree as a PC

I use Google sheets and Apple Numbers on my Macbook for a spreadsheet 

Apple iPages for WP 

400ixl

Yes they do, and pretty much the same functionality as on Windows, just with a slightly different interface. Certainly nothing you couldn't do unless using some very advanced Windows only features.

The other way around is still possible as long as the MAC users have the common sense to use compatible formats to save things in.

Vitor

Brie said:

Would Microsoft products work on a Mac?  We always have  a problem trying to pass documents back and forth in my family as some have apple products and the rest of us don't.

iWork (Apple’s Office Suite) can export to .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx for Windows users. But it simpler if everyone uses Microsoft Office 

mksysb

Brie said:

Would Microsoft products work on a Mac?  We always have  a problem trying to pass documents back and forth in my family as some have apple products and the rest of us don't.

You could use Google docs.  You wouldn't have to pass anything around, you could just login and have access to the same doc