Moving from MS Office to Google

[rdjohn]

I have been using MS Office since 2000 and 365 since about 2017. I am now fully retired and so Gmail, Docs and Sheets should easily meet my needs.

There are a few things in .pst format from 2005 that I would like to keep.

Has anyone seen a reliable guide on how to make this transition smoothly?

Once I no longer pay the subscription, are there any stored files that are likely to just fade away and not able to access?

Thanks for any advice

[rdjohn]

Thanks for the great advice.

My current email in Outlook is a Gmail account from 2000

[rdjohn]

alscar said:

I used Ecokeys for MS Office Pro Plus 2019 -one genuine licence lifetime use £ 15.49.
Lots of different options on their site.

I followed this advice and am now deeply regretting it.
Nothing seems to work with Outlook now, it just goes off-line, I also needed to add a new Gmail account as my old address had been compromised. While I achieved this quite easily with my Android phone and my iPad, Microsoft seems only to want to blur my already muddy water when I tried to add the new email address. Deleting my first effort and trying to start again to manually enter addresses for POP and SMPT just seems to not work.
Do I need to just delete my old MS account and start again? Or, perhaps returning to Plan A and just using Gmail, Docs and Sheets was the best idea afterall?

[rdjohn]

When I had the 365 subscription, I could get help from Microsoft. Will I be able to contact them with the one-off payment form?

[rdjohn]

Ham_and_Jam said:

As others have said, I purchased MS Office pro 2021 from Ecokeys and no issues.

I have 10 email addresses set up, of which they are a mix of POP and IMAP (Gmail, internet provider and custom domains). All work perfectly.

The easist to set up is Gmail, as you dont need to add any settings, they automatically populate and just require your usename and password.

If this isn’t happening then something is fundamentally wrong. I would look at uninstalling Office and reinstalling.

I don't know but i think my issue might be with the fact that I had 365 before and simply gave the new key to instal. It did some stuff and offered the wizard to install the new Gmail address. It just will not accept the new password. It installed it as IMAP whereas I would have preferred POP SMPT.

As I went on holiday just after installation in theory I have a lot of emails waiting to download, but fear that this will not now happen since I tried to delete the account and reinstall manually.

I will try calling Ecokeys, but thanks for everyone’s advice

[rdjohn]

Sadly, no. If it were only that simple.

No excuse, I don't suffer from dyslexia.