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why not download the free Office suite StarOffice8 its compatible with word and excel etc. Ive use it a bit for home, seems fine.
 
jeffwebb said:
Don't waste your money. Try This. Does everything MS Office does, is compatible with MS files and best of all is free.
Regards, Jeff.
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Beware open office is not as compatible as they make out, for example some macros created in MS Excel wont run in Open Office. If you want the software for serious business use where you might be opening Excel files from other sources then Open Office is a non starter all IMHO of course. I learnt the hard way :mad:
 
If you have anyone in your household in full/part time education you can get MS Office 2007 Enterprise for £35 from software4students.
 
Thanks all.

I currently have Open Office. It's fine for making new documents, but I regulary find when opening documents made in MS Word that the formatting is wrong, especially with tables.
 
I bought Office 2007 Home & Student version for £59 on the internet, cannot remember exactly which site though.

Russ
 
If your company has an office 2007 corporate license then you can get a free copy of office 2007 under the home use program. (you have to pay about €10 shipping for the CD)

Many companies dont bother to tell their staff about this but the offer is available should your company wish to check it out.
 
flanaia1 said:
If you want the software for serious business use where you might be opening Excel files from other sources then Open Office is a non starter all IMHO of course. I learnt the hard way :mad:
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Slight irony in this.

I know of quite a few Office 2003 users who've had issues being sent 2007 docs. Of course you can install the Office 2007 file update on 2003 - except they can't because of some setup issue on their PCs.

All well and good. They can ask the original senders to save as 2003 version? Sadly a surprising number of users can't do simple stuff like this.

And I usually make sure I have OpenOffice around even when I have Office installed. Why? Safety net. We used to use OpenOffice to recover Word files goosed by Word - Word wouldn't open its own files.:doh:
 
Dryce said:
Slight irony in this.

I know of quite a few Office 2003 users who've had issues being sent 2007 docs. Of course you can install the Office 2007 file update on 2003 - except they can't because of some setup issue on their PCs.

All well and good. They can ask the original senders to save as 2003 version? Sadly a surprising number of users can't do simple stuff like this.

And I usually make sure I have OpenOffice around even when I have Office installed. Why? Safety net. We used to use OpenOffice to recover Word files goosed by Word - Word wouldn't open its own files.:doh:
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Actually i agree I also have open office installed because you are bang on file recovery of Word documents is one of its good bits, but for Excel files it's fairly useless as are the tables in Word which it chooses to reformat for some strange reason.

As to users that can't install the 2007 file update because of set up issues, then afraid I have no sympathy they should get their machines sorted so there is no issues particularly if its business critical
 
spinaltap said:
If you have anyone in your household in full/part time education you can get MS Office 2007 Enterprise for £35 from software4students.
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Just bought mine from there
Excellent deal I've two kids in full time ed so you just register and pay for it. Can be registered on two PC's and works fine full version with Access Publisher too great value, think I paid just over £40 took three days to be delivered :)
Worhwhile upgrade IMHO :thumb:
 
flanaia1 said:
As to users that can't install the 2007 file update because of set up issues, then afraid I have no sympathy they should get their machines sorted so there is no issues particularly if its business critical
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I'm rather more sympathetic. Back in the days of Office 2000 we had an Office service pack installation failure on half a dozen systems that left their Office setup goosed. MS KB had several articles on the problem. None helped. We ended up doing reinstalls of original media

My company. My staff wasting their time on a problem. Therefore *ME* paying.
 
Dryce said:
I'm rather more sympathetic. Back in the days of Office 2000 we had an Office service pack installation failure on half a dozen systems that left their Office setup goosed. MS KB had several articles on the problem. None helped. We ended up doing reinstalls of original media

My company. My staff wasting their time on a problem. Therefore *ME* paying.
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Sympathise with that I'm presently having a hard time what to put on our laptops as standard build ( you probably read I'm setting up an Indy) Main prob is do I go for windows 7 (not tried & untested by me) Vista (which I hate with a passion) or stick with XP Pro SP3 (which I know and love). Software will def be Office 2007, but security McAfee or Norton? Then theres the specialist garage software to go on as well as that. If I get this wrong and end up wasting a lot of time then I'm the same as you its costing me money. Got one machine set up on XP with Norton at the moment but it appears not very stable so think I'm going to swap out Norton for McAfee see if that makes a difference as there appears to be a lot of background activity from Norton which I think is impacting performance and causing the occasional hang ups, machines are brand new Dell top spec dual core so should be able to handle it.
 
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