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Have just bought a s/h Macbook for my daughter - looks like I've run out of licences for my Office 2011 download so need to get a new code. MS want £120 for a single user but google is showing lots of cheaper options - any recommendations for a cheaper download? Software4students that I originally use isn't that cheap anymore
Speak with her school as they may be licensed for 1 copy per student on a personal device.
Monthly office subscription is also a good idea and you get multiple installs then and can have the latest. It's significantly better than 2011 ever was.
Email me and I will send you a link
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djflexure - many thanks - YHM!
djflexure's kind offer didn't work out - any other suggestions?
If there are a few of you in the house then Office365 Home is a good deal, not just for getting you all up to Office2016 which is better but for the 1TB of OneDrive storage each that solves a lot of your backup problems. It's 80 quid a year but that is for up to 5 of you so it's a bargain if there are a few of you but not otherwise
You could come and work for the company I work for, then you can have it for $9US.
Has it got to be Office?
OpenOffice is free and they have a version for Mac - as do LibreOffice.
Has it got to be Office?
OpenOffice is free and they have a version for Mac – as do LibreOffice.
And of course you have Keynote, Numbers and Pages free with MacOS
Look on Amazon, I got a code for about £10, downloaded from MS server works perfectly and registered normally
What do you mean by "legit"? If you want a truly legit copy, you have to buy it from Microsoft and pay what they ask, although student versions are worth looking into. If you want something cheaper than MS, it's not going to be completely legit, but the degree of illegitimacy might vary quite a bit.
I got my legit copy via work. I think it was part of the group licence .... and it cost me a few euros ....
Could try that ... but why by a pirate copy?
Mac user here and I do fine with google sheets, docs etc. Very handy having everything online.
https://www.microsofthup.com/hupuk/home.aspx?country_id=GB
Click this link and enter your work email - if your company is signed up to Microsoft's Home Use Program you can buy Office for £9.95.
Add another £14 and you’ll get a copy on a thumb drive - ideal when doing a nuke & re-pave on the laptop and suddenly remember you can’t find the digital download.
I gave up trying to find cheap versions and just went for Office 365. Yearly fee but you get the latest version, all the updates and it just works.
Got Office 2016 for my daughters Mac for £49 recently.
Although seems to have gone up. They have 2011 for £34 quid. Key worked.
https://softwarekeep.co.uk/ms-office-download/office-for-mac
Mac user here and I do fine with google sheets, docs etc. Very handy having everything online.
Do this - I find Google Docs/Sheets/Slides the best option after years of trying all the options. Much more reliable than Openoffice when dealing with Microsoft created files from clients too.
I recently got a Mac and downloaded office through the student deal. It was free, totally legit and easy to do. We live in scotland so the kids have a Glow account and it was done through that, don't know what the arrangements are elsewhere.
Office 365 it's £60pa for single user with Office Home and 1TB of cloud storage or £80pa for 5 users and 5TB of storage. Good deal imo.
Most schools get free Office don't they? They do in Herts.
Lots of cheap semi-legit versions being sold on eBay. They're OEM licences so in theory you should be buying them with hardware. I seem to remember the vendors T&Cs might claim that they send you a motherboard or a used PC but this never arrives.
You get sent a download link and a licence key IIRC.
They're legit in the sense that they are a valid licence, and microsoft have received some money for them and you could take issue with a business model that has such extreme differences in price depending on how you purchase.
think i bought from somewhere like this -
"We are permitted under European law - 1991 Computer Software Directive (Article 4, C) to re-sell this item within the EU. eBay Policy States: "OEM, bundled, or recovery software may be listed only if it is included along with the original hardware, such as the motherboard, hard drive, or computer sold with the OEM software." - Therefore, this sale includes the original broken beyond economical repair computer and motherboard.
All sorted by the look of things - her school has an appropriate licence
Thanks for all of your help!