MS Office 365?

DaveGrohl

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Cumbria
Ok, quick one. Got round to setting my new puter up (it's sat in the office for well over a year) and I need to get Office onto it. Main uses are Excel, Word and I'm gonna have to use Outlook as Windows Live Mail is long gone sadly. There's a 30 day trial on the puter but I'm guessing that could lead to an expensive outcome? What's the best/cheap/one off cost way to do it? Thanks in advance.
 

rollestonpark

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Burton on trent
Yeah agree, Libreoffice definitely worth trying as very good and free. You can make it default save docx xlsx if you want...
Also use your google account and use google sheets online for free and it works really good.
Do most of my stuff there now, so it's accessible from anywhere and to anyone I want to share with.
 

TrickyT

Member
I have an Microsoft 365 account for personal use. £5.99 per month, mainly to ensure I have up to date office software and the backup to OneDrive.

If you have a family, then the Microsoft Family 365 is good value at £7.99 for 6 users.

Looked at some of the eBay offers but cannot work them out and this is the wording on a lot of them which worries me!

  • You cannot use your own email address account for this subscription.
  • You will receive a username and password for ALREADY Activated Office 365 SO NO NEED TO ACTIVATE.
  • You can change Password after initial login, however the username remains as is.
I all really depends on what you want to do.

Trevor
 

Cowabunga

Member
Location
Ceredigion,Wales
I think Office365 costs around £60/year and allows access to work with your files from all your devices. It is also automatically updated to the latest version.
The only reason I really needed any part of it was for the VAT, because my bridging software will only work with Excel and certainly not the free LibreOffice that I've used for a number of years.
Now that I have it though, I'm glad I've got it. The suite is just so 'professional'.

One important tip. If you have BT Business Broadband, you automatically get a license to Microsoft365 [Office365] in the deal. You will have had an email explaining this when you signed up to the BT service.
 
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Spear

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Devon
I think Office365 costs around £60/year and allows access to work with your files from all your devices. It is also automatically updated to the latest version.
The only reason I really needed any part of it was for the VAT, because my bridging software will only work with Excel and certainly not the free LibreOffice that I've used for a number of years.
Now that I have it though, I'm glad I've got it. The suite is just so 'professional'.

One important tip. If you have BT Business Broadband, you automatically get a license to Microsoft365 [Office365] in the deal. You will have had an email explaining this when you signed up to the BT service.

Don’t remember anything about that. They gave us business broadband as part of a package this spring for less than we were paying not to have it
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
can you buy office as a one off anymore ?

is a SaaS model - not an expensive subscription really with cloud storage and email included ?
 

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