smith934 Loc: Huntsville, Alabama

A tip. When posting URLs, change https to http and it will post as a clickable link.

http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS606US606&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=libreoffice

CliffB Loc: Bristol UK

There is a free Chinese office suite, WPS, http://www.wps.com/windows/, has most of the bells and whistles of MS office in the free version. I am not sure if it can be programmed in visual basic in the same way as MS office, but for most home and small business use it's fine. I have been using it for around about a year and have had no problems

Sac-Jack Loc: Sacramento, Ca

I think you are not only money a head but better off Buying the full version and install that. I just bout Microsoft office suite for $89.00 plus tax and I keep it on my computer and do not have to pay for it year after year. They still do the updates as well. I keep the one I buy at my computer store until they made major changes then I get the next one. Microsoft would like all of us to send them money year after year even though the upgrade during the year are miner. Just my opinion

OnDSnap Loc: NE New Jersey

It messed up the formatting of all my contract doc files, scrambled several spread sheets...but to be fair, Perhaps I missed a setting during install I was supposed set before migrating MS files. Don't know...I wish it had worked for me. I freaked when I had to have several contracts etc. etc. re- formatted & check and fix formulas in XLS files.

BatManPete Loc: Way Up North!

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Thanks... I should know better.
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marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

I think it's a bogus site. Microsoft wouldn't call themselves www.microsoftstore.com - they would be www.microsoft.com/store. The microsoft.com domain name has been owned by Microsoft for ages. Anybody including you or me could buy Microsoftstore.com for $10 a year and set up an e-commerce shop with it. There's a lot of that going on in every field. It would be like www.samsunggalaxy.com compared to www.samsung.com/galaxy.

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

Then check this out.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pc/buy-microsoft-office-and-microsoft-office-365-FX102907679.aspx?oemreferralid=4287

I have Office 365 on my computer but have not activated the trail option. When I clicked the option to buy it took me to the link above.

singleviking Loc: Lake Sebu Eco Park, Philippines

If you don't trust that website, Amazon sells the keycard version of MS OFFICE 365 on their site. I don't think it matters where you buy the keycard though since the link for activation is always to MICROSOFT.
Personally though, I prefer to have the media disk in hand just in case of catastrophic system failure. At least the label for key number is on the disk box for reference. Those damn keycards are just too easy to get lost, and doesn't a subscription version of OFFICE have the potential of wiping you stored documents when it's not renewed since it's a cloud based system?
Give me MS OFFICE loaded on my machine and then I can be in control of my files and folders and documents.

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

Like I said, it is already on my machine but like you, I would rather have media disk as well. Even with the media disk I can register the copy that is already on my computer to key code from the Disk. If I have to re-install, the Media Disk will have already been registered. I am already using OneDrive on my computer to link-up with my Galaxy S III. That is all the Cloud that I care to do.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Yes, it's microsoft.com with office as a prefix to the normal microsoft.com legal Microsoft site. That's a typical variation of a legal site but is very different than Microsoftstore.com which is NOT a Microsoft domain name, in my opinion. I could probably probably buy www.microsoftsucksdeaddonkeys.com for 99 cents for the first year if I really wanted to. Or www.microsoftmakesjumpingjackboxes.com.

So the domain name you have given is saying you're going to visit the Office section of the Microsoft.com website, that is written in U.S. English, the page is specifically for the PC version of Office not the Mac version, and the single page you will land on has a title of "Buy Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office 365."

Their web developers know that a page titled with the main keywords of the content of the page will be ranked higher in Google so Microsoft always stay on the first search results page when someone searches for "Buy Microsoft Office" or some derivative of that search. Of course, being Microsoft with a monstrously large old and constantly maturing website saturated full of Microsoft content helps their search engine ranking big time as well.

By the way, getting it through www.microsoftstore.com doesn't necessarily mean it's illegal or that it's somehow not really Office 365. It just means they are likely an affiliate in a Microsoft sales affiliate program and they get a commission from every sale that goes through their site on the way to the real Microsoft site that they switched you to when you decided to buy.

There are tens of thousands of sites that sell items and if you click on one, the site will switch you up to Amazon where you actually make the purchase, then that site that sent you there gets 3 to 7% commission on your purchase without lifting a finger to mail or ship you a tangible product.

There are millions of affiliate leaches making nice big annual incomes from guiding you to the company they are an affiliate for. It is very common.

singleviking Loc: Lake Sebu Eco Park, Philippines

MS OFFICE 365 and MS OFFICE are not the same program so if you decide to go the disk route with MS OFFICE it will load as MS OFFICE and install a new icon on your desktop.
I think the OFFICE 365 was designed for tablets and cellphones and any book type computers that have no internal files storage mechanism other than FLASH MEMORY.

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

The site that steveo52 links to states "This site is hosted by Digital River"

singleviking Loc: Lake Sebu Eco Park, Philippines

So be safe and either go directly to the real MICROSOFT.com website or order the keycard from AMAZON.com
At least using AMAZON they have reliability but any keycard is NON-RETURNABLE so make sure you buy the right item.

Also, going through 3rd party vendors only ads another layer to the refund or help issues.

BTW AMAZON sells both MS OFFICE 365 and MS OFFICE 2013 as well as some older versions of OFFICE. OFFICE 2013 was the last disk version that was released that can be run without CLOUD storage but it has that capability if desired.

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

OFFICE 365 must be on my computer as a limited trial - the purchase version is 2013 Suite.

As yet, I am undecided about what I want. I really like the Lotus products but IBM has screwed that up big time.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

There you go - Digital River is an affiliate for selling Microsoft Office. I've bought software from Digital River before. One was a screen saver that looks like a very realistic fish tank complete with bubbles, the fish seem to move like real fish would wave their bodies, and the colors are excellent. I accidentally ordered the Mac version instead of the PC version by clicking on the wrong button and when I contacted Digital River to change it for me, they sent me to another company who had to give me a refund for the Mac version and re-charge me for the PC version. So Digital River was an affiliate for the actual maker of the screen saver software who had already gotten their affiliate commission from my sale and had no control of refunds or fixing my problem. I've also purchased cheap and simple little audio editing software from them over the years. They seem to be a respectable company that's been around for a long while.