Microsoft Office help needed

Lifeisbutadream

I current have an 'unofficial' version of microsoft office 2007.

I dont need the latest version, but I have had no end of problems and because I run a business I need it to be supported.

Can I get an 'official' version of the 2003 office?? I looked on microsoft website and its looks like it will cost over £500 to get office 2007 - a version that I dont even like anyway.

Is there any way around this???

superscaper

Home and student edition is £74 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Office-2007-Student-Licence/dp/B000HCZ8EO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1211201538&sr=8-1)
But that only includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Onenote. So depends on what packages you need.

Or you could use Openoffice since it's free.

Lifeisbutadream

superscaper wrote: »

Home and student edition is £74 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Office-2007-Student-Licence/dp/B000HCZ8EO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1211201538&sr=8-1)
But that only includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Onenote. So depends on what packages you need.

Or you could use Openoffice since it's free.

I also need outlook - do you know if the home and student version has that?

Do you know why the Professional costs so much more??

I have hundreds of spreadsheets that I use that all link - I have had loads of problems since getting the 2007 version - I dont know whether the problems are linked to the latest version of whether they are because I am using a 'copy'.

I dont know much about Openoffice, but would presume that it would not be enought for me to write the programs on excel that I currently do?

mymatebob

IIRC outlook doesn't come on the student version.

You could use Thunderbird

Openoffice will do spreadsheets for you no problem, not sure if you would have to "re-link" them all mind you.

Lifeisbutadream

mymatebob wrote: »

IIRC outlook doesn't come on the student version.

You could use Thunderbird

Openoffice will do spreadsheets for you no problem, not sure if you would have to "re-link" them all mind you.

Re-linking them could be a problem.

It has taken me three years to build them and there are thousand of links between spreadsheets - I update them daily.

I would also need to be able to keep creating more - does openoffice allow me to do that or just open it?

What is Thunderbird??

mymatebob

Thunderbird is a free email client - like Outlook that you don't have to pay for.
Comes from the same stable as Firefox

OpenOffice is a fully featured free alternative to MS Office. Not exactly the same but - FREE!

None of this "unofficial" business

Lifeisbutadream

mymatebob wrote: »

Thunderbird is a free email client - like Outlook that you don't have to pay for.
Comes from the same stable as Firefox

OpenOffice is a fully featured free alternative to MS Office. Not exactly the same but - FREE!

None of this "unofficial" business

How do I go about getting both of them?

Lifeisbutadream

TBH I have only just found out that I dont have the official version of Microsoft!

When I bought the PC last year I wanted everything on it...

mymatebob

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/

http://www.openoffice.org/

Download and install.

Plenty of stuff written about them if you want to do some investigating first

mymatebob

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

TBH I have only just found out that I dont have the official version of Microsoft!

When I bought the PC last year I wanted everything on it...

I know it has happened to people I know, who got machines built by "friends"

Sput2001

if you've got kids at school, try www.software4students.co.uk

MS Office Standard (includes Word, Excel, Outlook & Powerpoint) is £35.94.