Need Microsoft Office

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[ianrauk]

Call them up and say that you have a new computer. When I did that they gave me a new key for free.

Edit: Oh.. that's if you still have the Office disk of course.

 

[Crackle]

Educational versions are normally much cheaper. Lots of places sell them, just Google student version. You should be able to get it for £60 ish and just need whatever proof they ask for to prove he's at school.

There's also Office 365 online, which is free.

https://products.office.com/en-GB/student/office-in-education

 

[srw]

If you work for a large organisation that uses Office, persuade them to talk to MS, who are quite happy to dole out very cheap licences. I think we've paid about a tenner for each of three installations of MS Office Pro over the years.

 

[srw]

Alternatively, there's now a subscription model - Office 365. I know nothing about it.

 

[summerdays]

Educational versions are normally much cheaper. Lots of places sell them, just Google student version. You should be able to get it for £60 ish and just need whatever proof they ask for to prove he's at school.

There's also Office 365 online, which is free.

https://products.office.com/en-GB/student/office-in-education

That's what I was going to suggest. We've done that -I think we had to get a letter from the school.

 

[screenman]

Alternatively, there's now a subscription model - Office 365. I know nothing about it.

About £80 a year.

 

[classic33]

What version?

 

[subaqua]

Wot the blue one says!

And the corporate thing is not as good as you might think . Especially on 365

 

[Debade]

You may want to consider free open source Linux Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/ . I am not an expert but had good luck with it when I replaced my MS office a few years ago

 

[Svendo]

I read an 'Ask Jack' in the Guardian which explained why for various reasons Libre Office is now better than Open Office, including support for newer document formats and features.

 

[DCLane]

An educational licence is the cheapest option: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office/default.aspx

It's free from some schools: https://products.office.com/en-GB/student/office-in-education

 

[PeteXXX]

+1 for Libreoffice. I've not had any problems opening any of my MS Office files so far

 

[aberal]

Personally, I'd go for an Open Source option. I use Apache Open Office which gives you more or less everything that Office does, but legit and FREE! I only started using it a few weeks back - and the joy of being un-beholden to Microsoft is an unexpected pleasure.

 

[annedonnelly]

Do you just want to open some files then save them in another format?
I'd be happy to do that for you if you want to send me the files (assuming I have the correct version of Word & the converters you need) and I'll send back the converted versions.