Basic question - Office 2007

[Adam T]

Hi all,

Not much technological savvy and just bought a new computer system for my home office which is great and super quick.

Only issue is it is preloaded with Microsoft Works, which I think Noah threw off the ark as it was outdated.

Whats the cheapest (legal) place anyone can point me in the direction of obtaining a full copy.

I have noticed PC World advertising a student package at about £80 on the TV but presuming not being a student rules me out of this.

I really do require all of the packages, including Outlook which is hurting not having at the mo as having all work e-mails through the laptop.

Thanks for any help, sorry for basic question...

 

[ozbon]

Well, while it might have a bit of a learning curve, your quickest/cheapest option is to go for Open Office ( www.openoffice.org ) rather than MS Office. It'll open all your MS Office files (including Office 2007/8), save files as MS Office files etc.

For email, you could look at Mozilla's Thunderbird, which I now prefer to Outlook.

However, for MS Office you're going to need to fork out - Standard Office 2007 is on amazon for about £260, and Office 2003 is still around, but either OEM (no manuals and a bit dodgy) from about £75 or 'used and new' from about £115.

Personally I'd just go Open-Source (i.e. Open Office and Thunderbird) and pay nothing - which is what I did a couple of years back, and have no intention of returning to MS Office.

 

[Chunkford]

Have a look a zoho, failing that look into google apps
Both have free versions.

I tend to lean towards zoho as it more business like, and google apps is more 'cute'

 

[Martin-S]

Get Office 2007 Basic (Word, Excel and Outlook) from Amazon.. That's your best bet.

 

[Dawg]

Office 2007 Enterprise £35 from Microsoft approved site, where if you know a student, or once passed one in the street, that's enough.
Better, cheaper and kosherer than burgering around.

 

[franckster]

Cheapest legal way to get office is to buy Office 2007 Standard....standard should suffice for what you need.

Unfortunetly there is no cheap way around it unless your a student.

Office 2007 is pretty expensive....about £230 - the part code is 021-07746

 

[Chunkford]

Or unless you go to a college and drag a student to your local pc world, lol
I'm sure if you offer them a big mac they will do it