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My mum has just bought herself a new laptop, her old one has some version of office on it.
How can she get a cheap version of MS Office these days? Doesn’t have to be the latest.
She doesn’t want a hooky version, doesn’t use it enough to justify £80/year and doesn’t want to learn something new.
Cheers
Are these Groupon deals legit?
She doesn’t want a hooky version, doesn’t use it enough to justify £80/year and doesn’t want to learn something new.
Suspect she might be out of luck then.
We did have office 365 family but balked at the cost
Now we've got some £20 odd quid 'genuine' version of office 2016 bought from amazon or ebay (I forget) as Mrs C insists on an actual installed outlook as an email client even though it's all hosted on gmail.
Honestly...whilst it's not what you/she wants to hear - unless she is completely beyond a fresh start (and it really isn't - all your files will still work and the shortcuts and terminology are the same) the google suite just works. And it's fine. And cloud storage is better than physical storage imo. My work is going from google environment back to Teams/office 365/ one drive in September - the back office luddites have won and I'm not impressed. But I'm sure I'll adopt soon enough. You think you are totally entrenched, but we all adapt when we have to.
edit - she can't join you/another relative/a friend's Microsoft 365 family can she? 5 users on an account all with their separate storage and email addresses - there must be millions of unused family slots around the country.
Libre Office is technically learning something new but it works in such a similar way. All the shortcuts and menus look about the same to me. Its a tiny learning curve to move over, probably similar to moving from MS office 2006 to 2025
Must admit I'd probably go to a key reseller as first port of call, it's a bit grey market but you get a non-hooky version of software all proper registered and it does updates.
Key no workey, they give you another.
You're doing nothing more than buying a second hand copy.
Have previously bought a couple of years $ub$cription to 365 for similar ludditey reasons but not doing that again thanks.
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Must admit I'd probably go to a key reseller as first port of call, it's a bit grey market but you get a non-hooky version of software all proper registered and it does updates.
To be fair, that's what we've got. I'm not 100% of the legality of it but it works. The Groupon at £9 looks like what I'd do if she has to have office and you don't want to be a virtual IT support 24/7.
I've used these guys a few times with no issues whatsover.
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i think I've used CD-Keys too before too with no issues
Are these Groupon deals legit?
V good question - I keep seeing Instagram ads (which seems a bit odd in itself) for them and thinking the price is far too cheap to be legit. But it's Groupon, so...?
To people suggesting Google docs, it's mostly fine. Definitely not a like for like replacement - for example with things like Powerpoint and Excel the Google version is a pretty poor imitation. But if it's for home or light work use, it should be sufficient
things like Powerpoint and Excel the Google version is a pretty poor imitation.
You see - I think this tends to be said by people who have not explored sheets and slides properly.
I use (well the kids use and I mark!) slides all the time and I'm not sure what pp function is not on slides. Similarly the data manager at work likes to say sheets can't do everything excel can do. We have a fun game where he tells me the feature it can't do and I then time how longs it takes me to prove him wrong. Macros and SQL all there and I'm yet to find a high end function that's not mirrored pretty much like for like. Oddly I'd say Docs is possibly the most limited and can often nause up the format of a word doc when you open it.
I just bought a full Office 2025 on one of those Groupon links. It was from a bricks and mortar shop, that was listed as Microsoft reseller. Code was delivered in minutes, download link included. 10 mins after purchase I was set up and running.
I bought it online last week, Digital License Shop, was £25. Installed on Monday, no problems
Must admit I'd probably go to a key reseller as first port of call, it's a bit grey market but you get a non-hooky version of software all proper registered and it does updates.
Key no workey, they give you another.
I've done a few of those, eventually they all seem to expire after a year or so. It's still cheaper than a month of 365 though.
. But it's Groupon, so...?
Groupon are just an advertising company.
You see - I think this tends to be said by people who have not explored sheets and slides properly.
mm... interesting. I work (a lot) in Excel/ Powerpoint, but using a relatively small set of their capabilities. SQL and VBA are absolutely not for me; good vlookup/ mean/ repeatable transitions are. Slides makes a right mess of some fonts and layouts from Powerpoint, and the builds aren't quite reliable. And Google Sheets top layer is a bit limited functionally - maybe it's all there if you root around more though
Is she doesn't want to learn something new and already owns it on her old computer, what's stopping her / you from reinstalling it on the new one?
(Genuine question. No disc? Lost the licence key? No longer compatible? Something else?)