Need Microsoft Office

[Tin Pot]

I use Word for iPhone, which is free.

Docs uploaded to SkyDrive/OneDrive whatever it's called now.

 

[martint235]

As far as I know the cheapest version is still the corporate tie in. Lots of large organisations (the NHS is an example) have a corporate license with Microsoft. It usually comes with a clause that allows employees to get a license and CD for just the price of postage. It's how I got my copy.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Office 365. Cheap. and you can install Office on more than one computer. (with my version anyway)

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 3919842, member: 45"]What's the cheapest (legal) way of getting it? I reformatted a laptop and don't have the key of the old version that was on there. Some of the formatting of my boy's homework hasn't translated to Open Office recently and so I'm looking at whether I can load Office without spending too much.[/QUOTE]

O365 is free for students:

https://products.office.com/en-us/student

 

[User482]

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.

Libre Office is complete toilet, in my experience. Slow to open, prone to crashing, and not fully compatible with MS Office, despite their claims.

 

[fossyant]

Try work or school as there are usually deals first. Next is the educational version.

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 3920563, member: 259"]You used to have to be a student at a university though that may have changed.[/QUOTE]

A school email address, according to the link, which are issued to primary schools now.

 

[fossyant]

Our high school has just let the kids have 365. We've got a few versions at home through my work (2010& 2013) but ran out of licenses for my son's new gaming computer. He went and found a 'hookey' version of Office 2013

 

[Tin Pot]

Our high school has just let the kids have 365. We've got a few versions at home through my work (2010& 2013) but ran out of licenses for my son's new gaming computer. He went and found a 'hookey' version of Office 2013

Be aware of the risks of 'hookey' software.
http://www.csoonline.com/article/21...ated-software-is-costing-us-all-billions.html

 

[SteveF]

As far as I know the cheapest version is still the corporate tie in. Lots of large organisations (the NHS is an example) have a corporate license with Microsoft. It usually comes with a clause that allows employees to get a license and CD for just the price of postage. It's how I got my copy.

Agree... depending who your employer is they may have a deal with Microsoft, mine does one where we can get the full MS Office package for about £9, if you want the physical CD/DVD then it's about £20 I recall.

 

[DWiggy]

We use Google Docs at work, very, very good alternative and its free for individuals (We pay for the business version) definitely worth a look

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Libre Office is complete toilet, in my experience. Slow to open, prone to crashing, and not fully compatible with MS Office, despite their claims.

My experience too.

I bought a Microsoft Works CD on ebay for a tenner, that opens MS Office files but I only get sent very basic stuff so I don't know how it would handle more complicated formatting.

 

[Tin Pot]

My experience too.

I bought a Microsoft Works CD on ebay for a tenner, that opens MS Office files but I only get sent very basic stuff so I don't know how it would handle more complicated formatting.

As I posted before, be aware of the malware risk of buying software like this.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

My experience too.

I bought a Microsoft Works CD on ebay for a tenner, that opens MS Office files but I only get sent very basic stuff so I don't know how it would handle more complicated formatting.

But so does open office and that is free.

 

[MossCommuter]

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.

They call this the Home Use Program