need word and excel

[slipstream 1985]

So where is best? i just need microsoft word and excel but damned if I am paying currys £120 for a lifetime subscribtion. They have a yearly one for for £50 odd quid. Am I best just to pay and download from online and if so where from as I have seen an online offer for £15 lifetime but I'm suspicious about it being dodgy.
Any links or advice would be appreciated..

[Harpoon]

Have you looked at LibreOffice (which is free) to see if that does the job for you?

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer/
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/calc/

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/screenshots/

[TvrJohn]

or Kingsoft or Open office

[slipstream 1985]

Thanks for those suggestions but word and excel are what I know and can deal with.

[FunkyGibbon]

You can get Office 365 Personal direct from Microsoft for £59.99 a year.

Guaranteed Legit, updates as they come along, 1TB Onedrive space

Or for 79.99 you can have 6 users.

[JimPD]

Recently bought a legit full copy of MS Office 2016 via Amazon (download not disc).

£19.99


edit: just been looking for it as the link in 'my orders' no longer works.
May not have been as legit as I thought! All seemed above board at the time and it works fine

Edited by JimPD on Thursday 28th February 19:06

[Nigel_O]

Just pick up an older copy of MS Office 2010 / 2007

[snuffy]

JimPD said:

Recently bought a legit full copy of MS Office 2016 via Amazon (download not disc).

£19.99


edit: just been looking for it as the link in 'my orders' no longer works.
May not have been as legit as I thought! All seemed above board at the time and it works fine

I bought a copy of 2016 from Amazon like that for about £7 just over a year ago and it seemed fine. Oddly, I noticed it was updating itself and looked rather like 2019 in the end. Then it stopped working and said it was no longer licenced. The seller has now gone from Amazon. So what I think happened was that it was actually a copy of Office 365 and it worked for a year (as it should) and then stopped.

So I ended up buying a proper copy of 365 from Amazon directly for £50. And then signed up so it will renew.

[Hub]

If you work for a company that are registered with the Microsoft Home Use Program (HUP) you can get it with your work email address for about £10-15 and then keep it forever (and upgrade in the future if you still have the work email).

[IanJ9375]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/home-use-program?r...

HUP program as mentioned otherwise OpenOffice it - you'll more than likely prefer it especially for free

https://www.openoffice.org/

[okenemem]

Nigel_O said:

Just pick up an older copy of MS Office 2010 / 2007

[300bhp/ton]

FunkyGibbon said:

You can get Office 365 Personal direct from Microsoft for £59.99 a year.

Guaranteed Legit, updates as they come along, 1TB Onedrive space

Or for 79.99 you can have 6 users.

Yep this is the new MS way. Expensive and continual payments. Quite a rip off really.

[300bhp/ton]

slipstream 1985 said:

Thanks for those suggestions but word and excel are what I know and can deal with.

It really isn’t difficult to use something else. Tbh Google Sheets and Docs are 100% free and will do everything an average user will need. Give them a go.

[FunkyGibbon]

300bhp/ton said:

Yep this is the new MS way. Expensive and continual payments. Quite a rip off really.

Hmm. I need Office 365 for what I do daily. At £80 a year and typically 260 "working" days a year I'd say 30p a day is a bargain.

But I appreciate YMMV.

[Derek Smith]

Harpoon said:

Have you looked at LibreOffice (which is free) to see if that does the job for you?

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer/
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/calc/

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/screenshots/

To OP:

If you use MS Office then the Libre UI is easy to follow. Some suggest it is easier.

I write professionally. I used Libre. The only reason I changed is that I got a free login from a client for MS Office 2016. I have Libre Office on my laptop. The latest update, 6.2, is superb.

There are a number of companies that use Google Docs for submission of copy. I've tried it and it works well. If you don't want all the bells and whistles, which most of us don't, I can see no argument against it.

Given we're talking money here, and a lot for MS Office, then why not give both a try. You might even prefer them.

I start with a clean installation of Windows every couple of years or so. I expect I'll lose the MS Office the next time as I'm no longer with the client. I'm not particularly bothered.

[frisbee]

Hub said:

If you work for a company that are registered with the Microsoft Home Use Program (HUP) you can get it with your work email address for about £10-15 and then keep it forever (and upgrade in the future if you still have the work email).

HUP is Office 365 on a discounted monthly subscription now, it changed about a month ago.

[300bhp/ton]

FunkyGibbon said:

Hmm. I need Office 365 for what I do daily. At £80 a year and typically 260 "working" days a year I'd say 30p a day is a bargain.

But I appreciate YMMV.

It’s more the continual payments....

As it used to be a fixed cost or even sometimes included with a new PC. And the 0p a day forever.

And unless you are doing something very specific. All of the free options are more than up to the task.

I use Office for work as I’m not in control of the choice. But nearly all my own personal docs are Google Docs/Sheets or Apple Pages/Numbers. And I use things like Pressie instead of PowerPoint.

[snuffy]

300bhp/ton said:

It’s more the continual payments....

As it used to be a fixed cost or even sometimes included with a new PC. And the 0p a day forever.

You can still do that if you want. Buy Office 2019 and that's it - you only pay once. It's only Office 365 that has a yearly subscription.

[sgrimshaw]

slipstream 1985 said:

Thanks for those suggestions but word and excel are what I know and can deal with.

LibreOffice is virtually identical to Word and Excel .... WPS is almost indistinguishable, admittedly the free version does have ads.

https://www.wps.com/office-free

Why not try it, all you have to lose is 10 minutes of your time.

[IanJ9375]

frisbee said:

HUP is Office 365 on a discounted monthly subscription now, it changed about a month ago.

You can still elect to buy Office 2019 if your program administrator has added it - it's still on the HUP site unless it's out of date