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My daughter has just bought a new laptop and wants to get Microsoft Office. Apparently she uses Word, PowerPoint and Excel often. However, she is reluctant to spend much on this and is asking me if I know the best way to buy it cheaply. Unfortunately I do not, can anyone help?
Thanks in advance and apologies for the dull question.
open office? an option
Thanks for the suggestion, I suggested that myself, but apparently only Microsoft will do. 😥
As suggested above, OpenOffice is free - as is LibreOffice. [EDIT] - just seen your post so ignore!
If your daughter's a student then Microsoft Office 365 can be had for free.
Or have a look at Software Geeks.
Do you have it for work or school? We use Office at work and can purchase a version for home from them for much cheapness (£15 I think?).
Edit: £9.99 stick in your email address and see if it works.
https://www.microsofthup.com/hupuk/home.aspx?country_id=GB
If your daughter's a student
Unfortunately not, she is working, but money is tight.
Work or school +1.
Otherwise, subscribe to Office 365 for a monthly fee
[url= https://www.office.com/ ]https://www.office.com/[/url]
I asked this a while back and got a load of shitty answers. So as the ones above seem good how so you get the "student" version for free? She is in her last GCSE year does that count as a student or is it higher education onwards?
There should be a link through her school website / intranet. May depend if your council is running it's school IT systems through Microsoft or Google though.
More info here, wrightyson
[url= https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/education/products/office/default.aspx ]https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/education/products/office/default.aspx[/url]
Does she have a school email address?She is in her last GCSE year does that count as a student or is it higher education onwards?
https://products.office.com/en-gb/student/office-in-education
Do you have it for work or school? We use Office at work and can purchase a version for home from them for much cheapness (£15 I think?).
Working as a teacher, we have 365 at work, but I presumed if I got a version for myself (to share with her) it would link to my work email etc - which would obviously be a no no. Is this a misunderstanding?
Yup student account, you just need a student emai which can acquired by registering with education place that supplies them.
HUP, as suggested. Do it through your work, you get (I think) a licence for three PCs.
Use it online for free? https://products.office.com/en-gb/office-online
What's she using it for? LibreOffice is compatible with MS Office for most practical purposes, I'd be sceptical that she [i]needs[/i] MS Office and LO won't do.
Working as a teacher, we have 365 at work, but I presumed if I got a version for myself (to share with her) it would link to my work email etc - which would obviously be a no no. Is this a misunderstanding?
If... you were to have an account on her laptop/pc it would be perfectly right and proper for you to download your office suite onto it from your 365 account... if you did that you might find that when daughter logged into her user account she would find the office suite there and it would work perfectly. She just wouldn’t be able use any of the cloud functions (onedrive, Skype for biz etc).
Just sayin’
registering with eduction place that supplies them.
http://www.software4students.co.uk/t/brands/microsoft-office-2016
Nope I was meaning the place of education that supplies an emai address you then get it for free.
Thanks, a few ideas to try there.
It's a tenner a month for 5 installations / users, 50GB mailbox and 1TB of online storage. If that's too rich for her, has she got any mates that would be willing to split the cost. It really is good value for money.
It’s 5 installs, but 1 user. But the only practical drawback is the cloud stuff, so they’ll be shared OneDrive etc.
You sure? I invited my wife and children onto One Drive and we all have our own instance.
I have an Office 365 yearly subscription. There are three of us, each with an outlook.com email address, and we each get 1TB of cloud storage. Works fine.
You sure? I invited my wife and children onto One Drive and we all have our own instance.
Really, that's embarrassing ha ha. I'm an IT Consultant and MS licensing is 'my thing'...
In my defence I haven't looked at non-biz 365 for about 3 years, seems they've now got 365 home for a few quid more than 365 personal which does indeed allow 5 users.
They you have it, someone on the internet not only admitted they're wrong, but actually learned something.