Cheapest (or free) Microsoft office?

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  • stragglebod
    stragglebod Posts: 1,324 Forumite
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    20aday wrote: »
    Am too late to the party but sometimes employers can get MS Office for their employees; think it’s £11.99 these days.
    Not any more. You can now only get a small discount off Office 365 subscriptions.

    £60 a year for 1 person, £80 a year for a household.

    These were 'exciting changes' if I recall the email I got about it correctly.
  • JustAnotherSaver
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    For a permanent copy and none of this 1 year payment thing, which Office version should you be looking at, be it on eBay or otherwise?
  • stragglebod
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    Improvements from 2013 to 2016 and then 2016 to 2019 were marginal, so any of those three should be fine.
  • unforeseen
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    stragglebod wrote: »
    Not any more. You can now only get a small discount off Office 365 subscriptions.

    £60 a year for 1 person, £80 a year for a household.

    These were 'exciting changes' if I recall the email I got about it correctly.

    That's not even a discount. They are Microsoft normal prices for a year's subscripfion
  • dogmaryxx
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    JustAnotherSaver wrote: »
    For a permanent copy and none of this 1 year payment thing, which Office version should you be looking at, be it on eBay or otherwise?


    Download Office 2019 and activate(lifetime) with simple VB scriipt.
  • dipsomaniac
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    just downloaded and activated office 2019 pro plus one time licence for £2.80 from ebay
    "The Holy Writ of Gloucester Rugby Club demands: first, that the forwards shall win the ball; second, that the forwards shall keep the ball; and third, the backs shall buy the beer." - Doug Ibbotson
  • Rotor
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    dipsomaniac wrote: »
    just downloaded and activated office 2019 pro plus one time licence for £2.80 from ebay

    what's the downside of doing this ? Can Microsoft recognise and deactivate these codes? so that at anytime in the future you could find yourself without Office?

    i note the cheap sellers on ebay are all recent and low feedback sellers
  • Undervalued
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    dipsomaniac wrote: »
    just downloaded and activated office 2019 pro plus one time licence for £2.80 from ebay

    If it sounds too good to be true then it almost certainly is too good to be true.....
  • Chino
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    Rotor wrote: »
    so that at anytime in the future you could find yourself without Office?
    All you'd have to do is get back onto Ebay and spend another couple of pounds on buying another dodgy code.
  • dipsomaniac
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    Rotor wrote: »
    what's the downside of doing this ?

    Its a onetime licence so you can't use twice
    "The Holy Writ of Gloucester Rugby Club demands: first, that the forwards shall win the ball; second, that the forwards shall keep the ball; and third, the backs shall buy the beer." - Doug Ibbotson
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