Looking to purchase Microsoft Office (Page 2): What is wrong with having a current fully licensed version with support from Microsoft? You could afford a Mac. The old or used copies...

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

neco wrote:

Happy New Year. I hope we all have an interesting 2024
I need a copy of Word and Powerpoint for Mac. On the web, I found a number of places that sell earlier versions of Microsoft Office, for example, for a very low price. "Shop Win & Office" sells the Office Home and Business 2021 for $49.99. Has anyone purchased and used something like this? Are they legit?

What is wrong with having a current fully licensed version with support from Microsoft? You could afford a Mac. The old or used copies might be legit or they might not. I have to go with the full subscription version of Office 365 Profesional because I use MS Access. If you have two Mac or a Mac and PC you might want to be sure to use the same version of Office on both. My wife has an older version of Office (perhaps Office Professional 2010?) on her PC and we go nuts trying to help one another because the two versions are so very different. Good luck and be careful.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

lamiaceae wrote:

What is wrong with having a current fully licensed... (show quote)

I LOVE what can be done in the current version of EXCEL for sort/filter of cell contents.
I just reduced a list of family female names/relationships from a genealogy report from 2,730 entries to 707 entries.
SO EASY!
Older versions may not support the process.

SalvageDiver Loc: Huntington Beach CA

neco wrote:

Happy New Year. I hope we all have an interesting 2024
I need a copy of Word and Powerpoint for Mac. On the web, I found a number of places that sell earlier versions of Microsoft Office, for example, for a very low price. "Shop Win & Office" sells the Office Home and Business 2021 for $49.99. Has anyone purchased and used something like this? Are they legit?

Check Apple's app store. They have a legitimate Microsoft Word for the Mac. A Microsoft 365 subscription is $69.99.

If you want a legit app that's low cost and compatible with Word, I suggest LibreOffice. You can get LibreOffice from the Apple app store for $8.99, or you can download it for free from the libreOffice site (libreoffice.org).

Using the App store, you'll get easy updates. You'll need to check for and get updates thru the software if you download from LibreOffice.

robertcbyrd Loc: 28754

I quit using Microsoft Office when they started the subscription model. Libre Office meets all of my (office related) needs.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

Do you need Word? Can you download a program called 'Libreoffice' for the Mac. This is a Word like suite that offers nearly all the equivalents of Microsoft Office, but is freeware. It's an excellent substitute. I've been using it for a decade.

srt101fan

SalvageDiver wrote:

Check Apple's app store. They have a legitimate Microsoft Word for the Mac. A Microsoft 365 subscription is $69.99.

If you want a legit app that's low cost and compatible with Word, I suggest LibreOffice. You can get LibreOffice from the Apple app store for $8.99, or you can download it for free from the libreOffice site (libreoffice.org).

Using the App store, you'll get easy updates. You'll need to check for and get updates thru the software if you download from LibreOffice.

Does LibreOffice read old and new Microsoft Word documents?

SalvageDiver Loc: Huntington Beach CA

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SalvageDiver Loc: Huntington Beach CA

srt101fan wrote:

Does LibreOffice read old and new Microsoft Word documents?

Yes

JoeBiker Loc: homebase: Houston, TX

SalvageDiver wrote:

Does LibreOffice read old and new Microsoft Word documents?
Yes

Even password protected ones?

At one time, it did not. I am honestly interested in knowing if they have found a way to do that.

robertcbyrd Loc: 28754

https://lifehacker.com/tech/microsoft-office-professional-plus-sale

SteveR Loc: Michigan

You may want to do as I have done. I have a Mac, but I have added MS-Windows to it. The people at Apple guided me along the way. I did have to purchase a separate copy of the Windows OS system. I'm able to switch back and forth between both operating systems if I desire, but I mainly us Windows. In the past I had purchased Microsoft Office Professional. The new version that I now have on my computer is not quite at that level. However, Microsoft offered a free version of Office 365 which I did download but have not really used.

I'm not sure what your needs are, but be careful. Not all versions do the same thing. When I had the full version of Excel I was able to do quite a bit more than what I'm able to do with the current version. One example is that the current version that I have will not copy the template of one file that has data into a new blank file.

srt101fan

SalvageDiver wrote:

Yes

Thanks!

DVZ Loc: Littleton CO

Friends don't let friends buy an office suite. Libre office now works on Apple.

neco Loc: Western Colorado Mountains

Longshadow wrote:

Do you need the full blown version? ($100/year)
Microsoft 365 Basic is $20/year.

We had Office 2003 until my wife needed the current version of Word to be compatible with where she worked (Covid work at home....).
She retired two years ago, we just kept <renewing> it.

Thanks for the information.

neco Loc: Western Colorado Mountains

kpmac wrote:

Would Open Office work for you? It's free.

Thanks for the suggestion.