Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for $30

My mistake, I'm on Home & business 2019
So, maybe not far enough behind to worry.
 
mrskevenh is getting a new laptop this week so she may go from Openoffice to MS office for $30
 
$30 is about £26.
Looking at Amazon Marketplace there are offers a little cheaper.
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kevenh said:
$30 is about £26.
Looking at Amazon Marketplace there are offers a little cheaper.
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Linky?

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kevenh said:
mrskevenh is getting a new laptop this week so she may go from Openoffice to MS office for $30
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Bristol City Council ditched MS Office and moved to Openoffice.

I use Libreoffice which is pretty good. I still have some older paid versions of MS Office on various obsolete laptops from my pre-retirement days. I got fed up with Microsoft changing the user interface for no obvious benefit, and trying to make it an annual subscription. That killed it for me.
 
If you want a spreadsheet, Google Sheets is very good. There's very little it can't do. I've done some reasonably heavy data analysis with it. If I need more, I write code.

If you're just writing letters, Google Docs is a passable word processor. If you don't play with style sheets, cross referencing and don't write 50 page technical documents, it's good enough.
 
Guigsy said:
If you want a spreadsheet, Google Sheets is very good. There's very little it can't do. I've done some reasonably heavy data analysis with it. If I need more, I write code.

If you're just writing letters, Google Docs is a passable word processor. If you don't play with style sheets, cross referencing and don't write 50 page technical documents, it's good enough.
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What happens to Google's copy of your document? Just curious.

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Guigsy said:
If you want a spreadsheet, Google Sheets is very good. There's very little it can't do. I've done some reasonably heavy data analysis with it. If I need more, I write code.

If you're just writing letters, Google Docs is a passable word processor. If you don't play with style sheets, cross referencing and don't write 50 page technical documents, it's good enough.
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We use them all the time there's the advantage that its saved as you type to the cloud so you're never without a backup.
 
SpeedyDux said:
Bristol City Council ditched MS Office and moved to Openoffice.

I use Libreoffice which is pretty good. I still have some older paid versions of MS Office on various obsolete laptops from my pre-retirement days. I got fed up with Microsoft changing the user interface for no obvious benefit, and trying to make it an annual subscription. That killed it for me.
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This thread isn’t about the subscription Office suite.

I’ve used OpenOffice. It’s good but I did enjoy getting back to MS Office and what shortcuts, etc. I knew.

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How can they sell MS office for this price, is it a rip off?
 
I pay about £2 a month for Office 365, from Microsoft. It's just over £7 a month but that's for 6 licences. The other 5 are used by my wife, two sons, daughter and daughters boyfriend and we spilt the cost. Worth doing if you have family or can get a few mates to chip in.
 
Soycd said:
I pay about £2 a month for Office 365, from Microsoft. It's just over £7 a month but that's for 6 licences. The other 5 are used by my wife, two sons, daughter and daughters boyfriend and we spilt the cost. Worth doing if you have family or can get a few mates to chip in.
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And do you each get 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage or is that split? For 166GB each that’s still decent (y)
 
kevenh said:
And do you each get 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage or is that split? For 166GB each that’s still decent (y)
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Here are the details

Compare All Microsoft 365 Plans (Formerly Office 365) – Microsoft Store

Find the right Microsoft 365 Family or Personal plan for all your devices. Includes AI-powered Office apps, 1 TB of cloud storage and premium mobile features.
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You get 6TB, 1TB per person. All accounts are independent of each other but the named subscriber has control who is given an account and more importantly can take them away! Apparently you can only use 5 accounts at the same time, how they know if you are using all 6, I don't know. We have never encountered a problem although licence 6 not really used. Sorry, its was £7.99, must have gone up!

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Suspicion must be that at this pricing these are at best "grey" licencing if not quite dodgy. You probably get as "key" and then told to download from somewhere. The idea of download software is common. But if you read some of the reviews the download is not necessarily official or current so once installed there will be the pain of an upgrade. The licence may in fact be intended as a company type multi user for larger corporations who may need 100s of users. These aren't intended for resale. It might be listed on Amazon or other reputed site, but where in fact is the seller based and what comeback do you have on them?

Simple advice, if the price compared to normal microsoft routes seems too good to be true, proceed with caution.
 
Kannon Fodda said:
Suspicion must be that at this pricing these are at best "grey" licencing if not quite dodgy. You probably get as "key" and then told to download from somewhere. The idea of download software is common. But if you read some of the reviews the download is not necessarily official or current so once installed there will be the pain of an upgrade. The licence may in fact be intended as a company type multi user for larger corporations who may need 100s of users. These aren't intended for resale. It might be listed on Amazon or other reputed site, but where in fact is the seller based and what comeback do you have on them?

Simple advice, if the price compared to normal microsoft routes seems too good to be true, proceed with caution.
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? You're buying a MS Office product key.
The only way to get the associated download is then via Microsoft - after validating the product key with your MS Account.

Where the sellers are finding MS Office 2021 product keys I don't know. Sometimes it'll be unneeded surplus from a corporate roll out 🤷‍♂️
But wondering about the low cost is a reasonable concern. (y)
 
Office 21

CJS CD keys, 19,99 last month
 
RandallC said:
Office 21

CJS CD keys, 19,99 last month
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And look at many review sites and you can see how many have difficulties with that operator. Only got my money back from them when I raised a PayPal claim else hey denied all knowledge that they could possibly have issued a key already in use and then claimed they were only agents for an unknown seller so weren't responsible and as they hid In Belize ...

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Kannon Fodda said:
And look at many review sites and you can see how many have difficulties with that operator. Only got my money back from them when I raised a PayPal claim else hey denied all knowledge that they could possibly have issued a key already in use and then claimed they were only agents for an unknown seller so weren't responsible and as they hid In Belize ...
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Perhaps.

But, key worked after I sorted previous install of 2016 that wouldn't go away. The issue was had changed my sad, installed clean won 10, alas not clean. Office kept popping up as 2pq6. Ended up uninstalling, reg clean, reboot, reg clean reboot, install.

After adding key code all ok.
 
Libre & Open Office have pretty awful UI compared to Word. Bearing in mind you can get a valid perpetual Office Pro Plus 2021 licence for about £50.00. Plus you get Outlook!
 

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