Microsoft Office 2007 £90 :O

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I only need office for Word, to use in my course I'm doing atm and £90 is a bit much for one app (even though you do get more, which i don't need) is it possible to buy just Word?

or can i find it cheaper elsewhere if i search a bit more (I've already done a bit), obviously i don't want links as thats not aloud but am i going to find it significantly cheaper elsewhere?

and yes im using the trial atm which lasts 60 days i think.
 
Use Open Office for free. Your document can then be saved in various MS Office formats if you wish to use it elsewhere that has only word installed.

Actually why is it that you have to use Word? :confused:
 
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i have a load of .doc files i need to use and i assumed i needed word to view them or is this not the case?
 
open office allows you to save and open word documents as well as lot of other formats as well
[edit] doesn't open word 2007 format atm tho uses different format to other versions (.docx)[/edit]
 
EDDS said:
i have a load of .doc files i need to use and i assumed i needed word to view them or is this not the case?
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No, *.doc files can be viewed e.g. with notepad I think. Though formatting and other things that can be inserted into Word's documents e.g. pictures and graphs will not appear as they should in notepad.

Open Office also opens *.doc files.
 
fumbles said:
NOTE: it is not 100% compatible (MSO => OO)
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Not at all. I think some people as a result load Open Office onto a flash drive and take it with them for use on other computers. Whether this works I don't know.
 
EDDS said:
I only need office for Word, to use in my course I'm doing atm and £90 is a bit much for one app (even though you do get more, which i don't need) is it possible to buy just Word?

or can i find it cheaper elsewhere if i search a bit more (I've already done a bit), obviously i don't want links as thats not aloud but am i going to find it significantly cheaper elsewhere?

and yes im using the trial atm which lasts 60 days i think.
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In answer to your original question.
You can get Word on it's own, but not at a major saving, you could get it for around £78inc VAT
Microsoft have really done a good deal this time around with Office 2007 Home & Student - No need to be in education, legally allowed to install on up to 3 machines and only costs around £90.
It would honestly be the perfect product if they had decided to supply it with Outlook at that price.
 
greenlizard0 said:
Not at all. I think some people as a result load Open Office onto a flash drive and take it with them for use on other computers. Whether this works I don't know.
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MSO = Microsoft Office, as in if you save something in MSO, and open in OO you wont always get the same results as if you opened in MSO.
The software works fine on heaps of OSes, although you need a JRE for some of the features.
 
Got my full version of Office 2007 (everything including Access) for £17.30 delivered...

Working for the NHS has at least one advantage I guess.
 
In the Home & Student edition you get Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. As mentioned above, it would have been great if you could have had Outlook too but what you get is great value for money. A lot of people think OneNote is poor but it's actually a great way of keeping notes in an organised fashion and is much more suited to organising notes than Word. Of course being able to install on three different PCs is also a nice bonus.
 
Kojak said:
In the Home & Student edition you get Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. As mentioned above, it would have been great if you could have had Outlook too but what you get is great value for money. A lot of people think OneNote is poor but it's actually a great way of keeping notes in an organised fashion and is much more suited to organising notes than Word. Of course being able to install on three different PCs is also a nice bonus.
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Thats another point, me, my dad and my sister split the cost so paid £33 each for it and we can each install it legally onto our computers :)
 
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