How best to upgrade Microsoft Office 2010?
This question is about Microsoft Office. I mostly use Google Docs and Google Sheets, as opposed to Microsoft Office. For my usage anyway, they work just as well or better than M-soft Office because ...
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1492 wrote:
Just a thought, but if you work for any company that has a Microsoft Office 365 enterprise license, you may want to find out if it permits free install of Office 2016/2019 for personal use? My work enterprise license allows each staff up to 5 free installs of Office 2019 on our own PCs or MACs. I've only installed one my home desktop PC so far.
Yep, that might be a possibility, however, 2016/2019 also have the Protected View Nanny in full force by default. When attempting to open any document that did not originate on your PC you will be presented with the same problem and will need to disable it.
So moving up to newer Office version most likely will not "fix" the problem.. I know I had that problem with my last company IT PC refresh which has Office 2013.. Took some time to figure out how to fix and be able to open documents that my previous PC with Office 2008 made.
Additionally, MS also has another "program" which is called Home Use Program (HUP) where they offer the complete MS Office 2016 for $15 or Office 2019 for $20.
HUP requires your Company to have Enterprise licensing and Support and you will need a valid Company Email address. However, technically HUP (and I suspect Office 365) offer is good only as long as your company maintains the Enterprise level support AND you are an employee of that company.
You leave the company, you are supposed to uninstall.
