Posted on 10/19/2023 6:07:35 PM PDT by SisterK
The Office 365 at one of my work computers will soon expire.
Office 365 Family for 6 devices is about $99
Office 365 Business for 1 device is about $150
It is tempting to get Office Family (less money and works with more computers) but if I do, will Microsoft bust me and send me to the gulag?
The other temptation is to work with Open Office. Any experience with that?
this is what I need
FReepers are the best!
I got a new MAC that came with Microsoft Numbers & Pages. I REALLY want Excel and Word back. Will Libre correlate with my old Excel spreadsheets and Word docs? If not I might just buy the $49 lifetime license you posted.
I purchase Office online, my own copy, DVDs delivered every couple years. It’s not a license that expires, or subscription (shudder!). A true, legal, ownership.
You do need a MS online account to activate it, but otherwise it’s mine-o-mine.
Just got MS Office Premium for around...$130? iirc. Gateway pundit periodically asvertises it on their site. Maybe do a search there? But Amazon also, just search for MS Office Premium. Get the DVD hard copy ownership version. Watch out for scams, and MS trying to sell you 365 (ugh!).
Has all the programs in the suite. Like 8 of them.
The only way to go, imo.
I use Libre, It works great and it’s free and you can save your work in Microsoft format.
thank you
others have suggested Libre
I will check it out
I had problems with Microsoft Word and deleted it with the intention of reinstalling it.
I was not able to reinstall it.
I now use Libre Writer, which I like better than Word 2010.
I believe there are deals from time to time on Microsoft software. I have no idea if they are applicable to business usage.
When one has money, one has to pay by the rules.
I’ll add that Microsoft software generally works well, but their updates are piggish.
They’ve improved a lot, but from a point where this machine was likely to be hurled at great speed to the ground.
I have used OpenOffice.org and I like it. Unlike you, my use case is primarily Microsoft Word, not Excel - but only because my home use does not involve much number crunching.
This is my own experience, which may differ from what others have experienced: it reads and writes foreign document formats just fine for the most part.
On rare occasion, OpenOffice.org may save an MS Office Word document in such a way where it can be viewed but the formatting will be just a little different when viewed once again in Microsoft world.
On rare occasion, OpenOffice.org may save an MS Office document in such a way that visually everything looks fine, but certain pages won’t print in Microsoft world.
However this was observed over many years of use and the latest versions may not even have these behaviors any more.
YMMV
I use Libre Office on my Linux machine and Apache Open Office on one Win 10 laptop. I do have MS Office on my Win 11 PC, mainly because I’ve used Outlook and Publisher for decades. Both Libre and Apache work fine, are free, and have never crashed on me. Why not try one before 365 expires and see how you like it?
Open office is pretty cool. But it is terrible at opening .docx files that were made in word.
Another long term Open Office user here. Flip Microsoft the bird and download it.
I know where to get Office Professional for $23.18. New legal copy!
I’ve used Open Office and Libre Office for years. Works great! I’m using a Fedora Linux workstation.
You just save your files as the respective Microsoft Office program file.
I have the MS Office Professional 2003 CDs. I hang on to them like grim death. When we move, they’re in my carry-on along with thumb drive of recipes.
Hubby struggles with that ridiculous 365 abomination.
You can purchase Office 2003 for next to nothing, or 2007 or 2010 for that matter and never have to pay another penny.
Open office is great too and completely free and it will save files in office compatible formats.
> this is what I need
I use LibreOffice, very compatible with MS/365 Office for all the usual stuff (Word, Excel, etc.), but you must be careful to tell it to write newly created files in MS/365 Office format (.docx, .xlsx) because its defaults are not the MS ones.
Other than that reminder, it's pretty much seamless.
Libre office works great for me. Open source
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