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I am looking for Microsoft Office for our granddaughter who is at uni. Anyone know a reputable place for a licence please? Ta
 
If you want Office, you can get a family subscription of MS 365. Also they used to special deals for students for the full professional version.

From the MS website:

Access to Microsoft Office 365 Education is free for students with a valid school email address. Explore powerful tools like Microsoft Word, Excel, .
 
I use office and I pay around £8 month, that's from the official Microsoft site. I get a few device slots with that, so might be worth asking your granddaughter if she has a mate that wants to chip in.
 
mexico1970 said:
Why don't people use open office instead? It's completely free.

www.openoffice.org

Download Apache OpenOffice

Join the OpenOffice revolution, the free office productivity suite with over 390 million trusted downloads.
www.openoffice.org www.openoffice.org
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I used that once and the amount of downloads it continued to send me completely fucked my laptop , its open source so there is no way of knowing what is being sent to you .
 
uwerosler28 said:
I used that once and the amount of downloads it continued to send me completely fucked my laptop , its open source so there is no way of knowing what is being sent to you .
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It's much safer than Microsoft Office BECAUSE it's open source mate. I have used it for years and it hasn't sent me anything even once.

Nothing is really safe though mate but better the devil you know and whatever works for you works for you.
 
Do businesses use OpenOffice? I would definitely recommend MS Office for students over open source options because I’ve never come across the free ones being used except for personal stuff and youngsters need to learn the proper software. They’re not like for like on all the features and if they need to cooperate with others on their course it could get messy.

Just get the student version while they can get it cheap/free.
 
mexico1970 said:
Why don't people use open office instead? It's completely free.

www.openoffice.org

Download Apache OpenOffice

Join the OpenOffice revolution, the free office productivity suite with over 390 million trusted downloads.
www.openoffice.org www.openoffice.org
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I use OpenOffice for my own personal stuff and just noticed there’s a mobile app for it now. Might give that a try-out over the weekend. I kept meaning to upgrade to MS Office because I wanted to be able to update spreadsheets and CVs via mobile but hopefully I can save my money now!

Anyone used the mobile app?
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
I use OpenOffice for my own personal stuff and just noticed there’s a mobile app for it now. Might give that a try-out over the weekend. I kept meaning to upgrade to MS Office because I wanted to be able to update spreadsheets and CVs via mobile but hopefully I can save my money now!

Anyone used the mobile app?
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I don't believe Apache have an approved open office app for mobile mate.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
Do businesses use OpenOffice? I would definitely recommend MS Office for students over open source options because I’ve never come across the free ones being used except for personal stuff and youngsters need to learn the proper software. They’re not like for like on all the features and if they need to cooperate with others on their course it could get messy.

Just get the student version while they can get it cheap/free.
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There’s a whole load of Govt (Germans mainly), let alone business that uses LibreOffice or its earlier (but still maintained) incarnation OpenOffice.
they also use *nix desktops rather than Windows - saves them a fortune on software licences and hardware renewals every few years.

It IS ‘proper’ software. But without the exhorbitant licensing costs, and hardware replacement cycle.

Another way forward is just to get a Google/gmail account and use their stuff - in a browser or an App. - automatic backups and ability to go back years to any version of the document/spreadsheet
 
JASR said:
There’s a whole load of Govt (Germans mainly), let alone business that uses LibreOffice or its earlier (but still maintained) incarnation OpenOffice.
they also use *nix desktops rather than Windows - saves them a fortune on software licences and hardware renewals every few years.

It IS ‘proper’ software. But without the exhorbitant licensing costs, and hardware replacement cycle.

Another way forward is just to get a Google/gmail account and use their stuff - in a browser or an App. - automatic backups and ability to go back years to any version of the document/spreadsheet
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That’s fair enough, it’s why I asked. However I have never come across it and I have worked at dozens of businesses in the last 20 years as an IT consultant.

By “proper” I meant the more “common” software. Learn that and then use the alternatives later would be my advice. I do use LibreOffice myself but I don’t really like it as much as the MS version, I’m just a bit tight!
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
That’s fair enough, it’s why I asked. However I have never come across it and I have worked at dozens of businesses in the last 20 years as an IT consultant.

By “proper” I meant the more “common” software. Learn that and then use the alternatives later would be my advice. I do use LibreOffice myself but I don’t really like it as much as the MS version, I’m just a bit tight!
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As per the derailing in the Media thread, I’ve been in IT 35 years, I don’t see many businesses move off Office/Windows, including my own (we develop on a Windows platform) which is surprising given the savings for expenditure for general day-2-day users (email, spreadsheet, document).

Maybe it’s because almost all accounting software used to be Windows based, and the bean-counters control the budgets…
 
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Think you can get it free if you use an email address that uses the University's domain name.

But I'd also agree with others on using Libre or open office if the first option isn't available. Never had a problem using the LibreOffice suite myself. Can save files in whatever format (.docx,. xlsx, .odt) to be compatible with Windows or Linux, etc.
 
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