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Microsoft 365 subscription or one off payment from Groupon?

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My subscription for 365 has ended, new personal subscription from Amazon is £76.49.  I only use it for Word and Excel, so it seems a lot of money.

I saw an offer on Groupon for Office 365 Pro Plus for £6, so I have bought that and have been sent a link.  My query is, can I still keep all the spreadsheets from previous years or will I lose these?  I have been given a different log in to use rather than my email address.

If not, is Amazon the cheapest and simplest way to update?


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  • Mr.Generous
    Mr.Generous Posts: 3,975 Forumite
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    Buy an office suite download and license from someone like gamers outlet - much cheaper and no annual renewal,they do work and update from microsoft, they are legit.


    Mr Generous - Landlord for more than 10 years. Generous? - Possibly but sarcastic more likely.
  • Mr.Generous
    Mr.Generous Posts: 3,975 Forumite
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    Slightly older software even better value
    Mr Generous - Landlord for more than 10 years. Generous? - Possibly but sarcastic more likely.
  • B0bbyEwing
    B0bbyEwing Posts: 1,582 Forumite
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    When it's sub vs one off I always go one off as I don't like subs. 

    And did that very thing with Office. 
  • km1500
    km1500 Posts: 2,790 Forumite
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    I also only use word and excel (very basic stuff) and use office 2007 and have done ever since I bought it in 2007
  • mksysb
    mksysb Posts: 408 Forumite
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    Try Google Sheets and Google Docs.  They should do everything you want and are free.
  • Sunshine_and_Roses
    Sunshine_and_Roses Posts: 1,029 Forumite
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    A friend sometimes sets up spreadsheets for me and has access when I give permission to update and amend things.  Can this still be done on a one off or free package?

  • Frozen_up_north
    Frozen_up_north Posts: 2,808 Forumite
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    A friend sometimes sets up spreadsheets for me and has access when I give permission to update and amend things.  Can this still be done on a one off or free package?

    Only if you upload your work to a cloud “drive” that you share, such as Google Drive (which is free up to 15 GB of storage). I do that from time to time, it is straightforward if you also use Gmail. I guess other cloud storage providers offer a similar means to give access to others.
  • Newcad
    Newcad Posts: 1,789 Forumite
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    edited 11 June at 1:32PM
    I just last week gave away an Office 365 one years subscription to a local charity shop.
    I bought a new laptop from Argos, which came with both Office 365 and McAfee 12 month subscriptions as sold boxed on Argos. Both still valid but the 335 had the 'older style' box picture so obviously being cleared off their shelves in favour of the new boxes.
    I didn't want them so gave them to the charity shop to make a few quid on.
    The moral being keep your eyes open at your local charity shops, you may get lucky.
    PS. I use Softmaker Free Office, never had any problem with compatibility with MS Office in the 11 years that I've been using it.
  • gefnew
    gefnew Posts: 931 Forumite
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    Outlook mail in win 10 comes with free cloud based word/excel/PowerPoint.
    linked to your Microsoft account.

  • jshm2
    jshm2 Posts: 477 Forumite
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    Just Use Libreoffice - it's free and you can use your existing docs and xls files as well.

    Buying the one off from groupon gives you the "student" version - i.e. Word, Excel and Powerpoint for a year. You do get licences on ebay as well, but they tend to be for a year. 

    You can also use the "rearm" trick which gives you 30 additional days on your existing licence.  
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