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Right-arm fast

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• Jan 21, 2015

• #1

Hi, had to buy a new computer last weekend and have found it won't open word documents as it doesn't have office or word, only word pad. I'm sure we didn't have to purchase it on top of the cost of the computer. So how can I get office for free? There must be a way. Anybody know?

Cheers

RAF

 

Loftyrules

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Location

Monmouth

• Jan 21, 2015

• #2

Office is sold as an annual subscription these days Office 365 or you can buy a copy. You need someone with a student copy who hasn't installed it on 3 computers that way you can have your "free" copy

 

Spartacus

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Lancaster

• Jan 21, 2015

• #3

If you google "MS office free" then there are several options you could download, not official microsoft office but will open Microsoft documents. I have had one or two issues in the past with office opening documents I created not being opened by MS office though. I use this one: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ it has word, spreadsheets, powerpoint, and drawing.

 

Steevo

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Location

Gloucestershire

• Jan 21, 2015

• #4

https://www.openoffice.org/

 

Timbo

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Location

Gods County

• Jan 21, 2015

• #5

office is still available as a one off pack , avoid 365 if poss, its £100/yr! And cloud based, so useless unless you have a fast broadband connection..

 

Notquiteretired

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West Lothian

• Jan 22, 2015

• #6

Steevo said:

https://www.openoffice.org/

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+1

 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Wiltshire

• Jan 22, 2015

• #7

+1 again. Open office is the way to go. Just set it to save every thing as .doc it doesn't to start with.

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Right-arm fast

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• Jan 22, 2015

• #8

Thanks for the info will go with open office then and see what happens.
Hopefully Bill wont mind.

 

Notquiteretired

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Location

West Lothian

• Jan 22, 2015

• #9

Right-arm fast said:

Thanks for the info will go with open office then and see what happens.
Hopefully Bill wont mind.

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You're OK, he's busy in Davos at the moment and not had time to login.

 

J B

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Location

Shrops/Staffs/Cheshire borders

• Jan 22, 2015

• #10

I *think* that Libre Office is supposed to be better than Open Office

 

JDJ

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Location

Brædstrup, Denmark

• Jan 22, 2015

• #11

Create a free Google account and use Google docs, sheets etc.
Only disadvantage is you need to be online, but you never have to worry about back up any more.

 

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bigrob

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• Jan 22, 2015

• #12

And don't forget that Google get to keep all the data you put in Google documents for ever to do whatever they like with.

 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Montgomeryshire

• Jan 22, 2015

• #13

Right-arm fast said:

Hi, had to buy a new computer last weekend and have found it won't open word documents as it doesn't have office or word, only word pad. I'm sure we didn't have to purchase it on top of the cost of the computer. So how can I get office for free? There must be a way. Anybody know?

Cheers

RAF

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Have you got the MS Office installation disc from your old PC? Should still work, if you had one.

My Windows 7 PC still manages to run Office 2000 without any issues, just a few less features which I'd never use. Thought about upgrading a few times, but I'm certainly not paying £100/year for the amount I use it. Perhaps I should look at OpenOffice again? I wasn't impressed 5 yrs ago.

 

Notquiteretired

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Location

West Lothian

• Jan 22, 2015

• #14

I found the spreadsheet on OpenOffice quite limited and document mail merge hard work but other than that as good any anything for knocking a letter up or a basic spreadsheet

 

Kidds

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Horticulture

Location

Near Beeston Castle

• Jan 22, 2015

• #15

Why don't you buy a proper copy of Office?
If you go back to who sold you the pc maybe they can sort you out. If you bought it from PC World or similar you could say you want a different pc with it included, I think you have 2 weeks to change your mind with them.
Alternatively go on ebay and buy a copy, about £100. Or my Romanian mates say you can get it for free off them.

I paid for my proper copy with no regrets.

 

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Right-arm fast

Member

• Jan 23, 2015

• #16

Have downloaded open office so will see how I get on with it. I'm not a great fan of using computers and so wont be testing it too much really. If it doesn't work out I will have a look at buying MS office

 

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youngfarmer25

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• Jan 25, 2015

• #17

You have to install Office!

 

damaged

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Location

Gloucestershire

• Feb 13, 2015

• #18

LibreOffice is better. OpenOffice sold out. The open minded programmers stepped back and set up Libre. Less commercial.
Microsoft pick up on Open and to a lesser extent Libre, and refuse to work alongside. All this means one has to update more often to bug fix.Ruddy MS.

 

sleepy

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Location

Devon, UK

• Feb 14, 2015

• #19

Timbo said:

office is still available as a one off pack , avoid 365 if poss, its £100/yr! And cloud based, so useless unless you have a fast broadband connection..

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That's not true. For £100/year (7.80/month) you get a proper exchange email account and all the features that go with that, unlimited 'cloud' storage for files (same as Dropbox), and fully installed downloaded versions of all the office suite.

Business class IT has actually never been cheaper or more easy to access.

I'm not a Microsoft fan but their current offerings are pretty damn good and are blowing everyone else out of the water.