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.

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.

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.

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.