Can I buy and use Office Home/Student at work?

apatia77 · 16 Sep 2009 at 09:28

Hi,

At work we need 1 additional Microsoft Excel license, all we need is Excel and nothing else, I have found that Home/Student version is all we need and its the cheapest option, however I am not sure if we can buy it for bussiness use?
I can't get information I need from Microsoft website.

Please help.

Six6siX · 16 Sep 2009 at 10:03

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA101655301033.aspx

Suggests not?

apatia77 · 16 Sep 2009 at 10:14

This doesn't look good, it costs a fortune to buy full version of Office Standard or Small Business edition as OEM is not available without buying a new pc it seems.

Burnsy2023 · 16 Sep 2009 at 10:14

No, you cannot use home/student in a commercial environment.

stoofa · 16 Sep 2009 at 10:29

Retail Excel will cost you around £130+vat, which is of course cheaper than buying the whole Office package.

paradigm · 16 Sep 2009 at 10:42

This thread shows why businesses are better with an OVS agreement with Core CAL and SA.

apatia77 · 16 Sep 2009 at 10:48

paradigm said:
This thread shows why businesses are better with an OVS agreement with Core CAL and SA.

We are a small business and only have about 35 computers and 2 servers. I am still new here but we always buy new pc's with OEM office small business which costs i think around £175.

It seems that you cannot buy OEM office alone as I cannot really find it anywhere.

I cannot even find anywhere where I can buy Excel on its own.

territt · 16 Sep 2009 at 12:20

cant you buy OEM with any hardware? maybe buy a spare harddrive at the same time?

stoofa · 16 Sep 2009 at 13:15

apatia77 said:
We are a small business and only have about 35 computers and 2 servers. I am still new here but we always buy new pc's with OEM office small business which costs i think around £175.

It seems that you cannot buy OEM office alone as I cannot really find it anywhere.

I cannot even find anywhere where I can buy Excel on its own.

I obviously can't give you a link to where you can buy Excel on its own.
I can say that one of the largest online etailers have it.
Try searching Google UK only for "Buy Excel 2007" and see what you can find.

Pho · 16 Sep 2009 at 13:19

Can you not use Open Office? It works with Excel files.

reflux · 16 Sep 2009 at 13:20

+1 for OpenOffice. Not 100% compatible with everything, but better than forking out big bucks just for MS Office.

Burnsy2023 · 16 Sep 2009 at 14:02

If you have any sort of VBA Open Office isn't an option.

apatia77 · 16 Sep 2009 at 14:54

I have managed to find Excel 2007 on its own now, only for around £150 (just had to use google properly

), expensive but I'm not paying from my own wallet.

The thing is that we must have Excel 2003/2007 as we are going to install some additional Add-Ins which will collect a lot of data from our financial software, this is to process all sort of reports.

raptormonkey · 16 Sep 2009 at 22:10

My mate has Office 2003, full, not legal and he has been using it since release in his business!!! I have told him it is illegal but the guy is only concerned about not spending loads of money on a bit of software!! I bought the full 2007 edition which cost £300+. He thinks i am mad!