We have Office on our two older computers. We bought a new Toshiba.They want to charge us an arm and leg for the new edition and it is probably per year.We don't use it much. 2003 version is just fine with us.Any trouble loading it onto the Toshiba? It'ss the new Windows 8 and we hate it, after several aggravating hours, already.

Why not just use the Free Libre Office?

1492 wrote:Why not just use the Free Libre Office?X2Unless you need to do fancy stuff like Visual Basic, Libre Office is the way to go. It reads Office files and can be set to save with Office file extensions (.doc, .docx, .xls, etc) if you need to send files to someone who uses Office.BTW, the Home and Student version of Office is $139 for one PC. The Office 365 version is a one year subscription which I have seen for $79.

We're running 2007 and 2010 on our machines now...MS is really pushing the 365 version and I imagine I'll be forced to make that move for my next batch of laptops. I like 2010 a lot-huge improvement over 2003. I second the motion of checking out the Home and Student version if you want to stay with an office product and don't use it a ton(and commercially) Personally, I've tried many of the knockoffs-none serve the purpose for me that the real version does(albeit-I'm a commercial user that utilizes many features of Word Excel and Outlook daily)A few reviews I've seen for Libre-Office compare it to the functionality of Office 2010 with a more limited user interface...

Libre Office, Apache Open Office, just some alternatives that work almost the same as MS Office and are free. I Like Libre Office better, though I use both from time to time. MS stuff just got too expensive to make it practical for a "sometime" user like me. Give them a look and see what you think.

I was able to load Office XP and Office 2003 on Win 7, so try loading it on Win 8. MS will tell you it will not work - even on Win 7, but it works just fine for me. The new Office is "in the cloud" and not on your computer. Not very good if you are without wifi somewhere. Libre Office and Open Office are basically the same software. Libre is a carry forward of Open Office continuing to be developed by the original Open Office programmers. Both work well as an alternative to MS Office - completely compatible with all current and old Office files - and the best part is it is free!

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SuperDutyFiver
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Dec 17, 2013
We're running 2007 and 2010 on our machines now...MS is really pushing the 365 version and I imagine I'll be forced to make that move for my next batch of laptops. I like 2010 a lot-huge improvement over 2003. I second the motion of checking out the Home and Student version if you want to stay with an office product and don't use it a ton(and commercially) Personally, I've tried many of the knockoffs-none serve the purpose for me that the real version does(albeit-I'm a commercial user that utilizes many features of Word Excel and Outlook daily)

A few reviews I've seen for Libre-Office compare it to the functionality of Office 2010 with a more limited user interface...
CloudDriver
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Dec 17, 2013
1492 wrote:
Why not just use the Free Libre Office?

X2

Unless you need to do fancy stuff like Visual Basic, Libre Office is the way to go. It reads Office files and can be set to save with Office file extensions (.doc, .docx, .xls, etc) if you need to send files to someone who uses Office.

BTW, the Home and Student version of Office is $139 for one PC. The Office 365 version is a one year subscription which I have seen for $79.
1492
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Dec 17, 2013
Why not just use the Free Libre Office?

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