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recommend microsoft office

  • 30-08-2005 7:46am
    #1
    gubby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone tell me where is the cheapest place to buy microsoft office. and which one should I get. I am a student at the moment and heard somewhere that you can get better deals. seen a second hand one in amazon 2003 for something like £89 but worry in case it might be ****


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  • #2
    Blub2k4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    Why not grab yourself openoffice, it's not quite MS office but it has all you will need and it is free, that's more beer money for the average student ;)

    http://www.openoffice.org/

    Not a loss on this if you are looking for office functionality, I dont use it a lot so wouldn't be able to vouch for how close it gets to MS but imagine it has to be almost the same.


  • #3
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    I've swiched to openoffice recently;

    Wordprocessor is waaaaay better than Word
    Spreadsheet is rubbish
    Powerpoint clone is about the same


  • #4
    odie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭odie


    You can get the student edition here for €129

    http://www.pcworld.ie/products.aspx?range_rid=63&image=Office_Applications

    However as Blub2k4 suggests the latest version of Open office is free and has all the functionality of MSOffice, in that it can create documents in MSOffice format.

    Open Office here - http://download.openoffice.org/2.0beta2/index.html


  • #5
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    You can also create PDFs in it as MSOffice file formats which is nice.


  • #6
    olancasey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭olancasey


    we got a deal at work available to everyone once off..
    i'd recommend open office...
    u can get a free disk from ubuntu with open office on it too for windows
    as well as all the linux o/s and progs..
    i have a few spare one available
    :)
    Product Name: Office Pro 2003 Win32 English Direct CD Home Use Rights
    Qty: 1
    Unit Price: 28.44
    Item Total: 28.44 EUR


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  • #7
    aaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭aaf


    olancasey wrote:
    we got a deal at work available to everyone once off..
    i'd recommend open office...
    u can get a free disk from ubuntu with open office on it too for windows
    as well as all the linux o/s and progs..
    i have a few spare one available
    :)
    Product Name: Office Pro 2003 Win32 English Direct CD Home Use Rights
    Qty: 1
    Unit Price: 28.44
    Item Total: 28.44 EUR
    Are you saying that you can get Office Pro 2003 for that price. I'll take one from you if you're selling it.


  • #8
    olancasey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭olancasey


    im saying i got one copy at that price for ma self boyo...
    check with ur IT depatment and see if they have a
    microsoft home user agreement with em..


  • #9
    aaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭aaf


    olancasey wrote:
    im saying i got one copy at that price for ma self boyo...
    check with ur IT depatment and see if they have a
    microsoft home user agreement with em..
    I am the IT dept and it's a no-go :p


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