What office package for uni?

[Chives]

Hi guys,

I ordered a MacBook Air last week for Uni and it is on its way as I speak.

Question is what office package do I want to be buying for it? I've seen Office 365 University floating around for a decent-ish price.
What would you guys recommend? Cheers

 

[Chives]

Another vote for Office. You should be able to get it for a decent price as a uni student.

I thought Office might be the way to go. I managed to get Office 365 University today for £59 which I consider to be a good deal I think

I'm using the 2011 version of office still on my mac which does everything that I want and need it to. Pages is pretty good still, even though it was released in 2009 (!), but you WILL encounter formatting errors if you keep switching .docx files between office and pages software. Becomes an absolute nightmare if your institution also uses the older version of office which can only support .doc files...

Get office 365 if you can, or 2011 at the very least!

I feared this might be the case, and I do have a feeling that my University uses older versions of Office unfortunately.

Office for sure. Even if the other companies offerings allow you to open and save office formats using the defacto standard will make it a lot easier if you ever need help from friends/partners/lecturers with a feature.

Your university may also provide free/discounted copies of office as well so worth waiting until you get there (or searching now) to see if they do.

Ooops I didn't think about this before I went and bought it today! Ah well at least I didn't pay too much for it