Posted: 9/3/2014 8:09:56 PM EDT
| Does anyone know where I can get Microsoft Office? Not the 2013 but the older 2010 version? Need it for school but I'm not looking at the new fancy version. Regular old Office will do. What is it running now price wise? |
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Does anyone know where I can get Microsoft Office? Not the 2013 but the older 2010 version? Need it for school but I'm not looking at the new fancy version. Regular old Office will do. What is it running now price wise? For school, Microsoft usually runs a special that you can get Office and some of their other stuff for drastic discounts. All you need is a .edu email address. |
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Quoted: For school, Microsoft usually runs a special that you can get Office and some of their other stuff for drastic discounts. All you need is a .edu email address. Quoted: Quoted: Does anyone know where I can get Microsoft Office? Not the 2013 but the older 2010 version? Need it for school but I'm not looking at the new fancy version. Regular old Office will do. What is it running now price wise? For school, Microsoft usually runs a special that you can get Office and some of their other stuff for drastic discounts. All you need is a .edu email address. She's doing online classes. Not sure if she has an .edu email.
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True story:
Office 97 still runs on Windows 7. You have to install it as Admin, you have to point the template and other directories somewhere other than "program files" but it runs. I still use Office 97 on one of my Windows 7 work laptops. See: 
It also works perfect with those .'docx" and "xlsx" converters -- I've got a Windows 7 box here where I routinely open all manner of .DOCX files produced on Office 2007, 2010, etc., and it does fine. The dirty secret at Microsoft is that there haven't been too many major innovations in word processing, ok? The main things you'll miss in 97 are (a) the drop down font menu doesn't preview the fonts. (not that big a deal), and the redline/track changes doesn't have the right margin markup and comment balloons like later versions. Footnotes work the same. Formatting looks the same. There are some things with pre-filled forms and other esoteric things that may be different, but very little differences in the core tech. Also Word 97 is fast as shit on modern machines and a 5 or 6 megabyte memory footprint. (Outlook 2010 is like 75 megabytes). Best of all? Office 97 has (a) zero phone home product activation -- just put in the key from the CD; and (b) its license lets you install it on your main + one portable computer, and when you change computers you uninstall it from the old one and install it on the new one. Its the last version where Microsoft did not have pure and total control over the $300 box of software you bought from them. Office 2000? Office XP? Can't even install them anymore. MS Won't activate them. I think the same may apply to 2003. 2007 isn't bad, but a bit buggy. 2010 rocks, but getting harder to find and pricey. I wrote thousands of pages of papers, legal briefs, articles, you name in on Office 97 from, well, 1997 through about 2011 when I got a computer that came with Office 2010 pre installed. Look for the Office 97 Small Business Edition on eBay. You'll be out about about $20.00. It will work fine and then some for your wife's thesis The Word 97 ".doc" format is actually the same format supported by Word 2003 all the way through the introduction of the 2007 formats, and its still widely supported today. Word 2010 by itself is $150 bux on Amazon; Word 2013 by itself is a lot cheaper but has the shittiest license MS has ever put out -- i.e., it works on the computer you install it on, and if you get a new computer (or if the original one dies out of its own warranty (i.e., 1 year) you have to buy a new copy of Word. Another option, completely different, is to sign up for Office 365 -- its the cloud version of word, but you can use a lot of months of it before you get anywhere near what it would cost to "buy" 2010 or 2013. |
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Does anyone know where I can get Microsoft Office? Not the 2013 but the older 2010 version? Need it for school but I'm not looking at the new fancy version. Regular old Office will do. What is it running now price wise? For school, Microsoft usually runs a special that you can get Office and some of their other stuff for drastic discounts. All you need is a .edu email address. She's doing online classes. Not sure if she has an .edu email. Have her look into it. If so, this is probably your best option for the money. |
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Check in to the Microsoft Home Use Program.
I have MS Office Professional Plus on my laptop for $9.95 or something similar (for a $400 suite). Here is the link: http://www.microsofthup.com/hupus/faq.aspx There is a good chance you may qualify. If you have a .mil email address you should qualify as well. |
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I currently use that but it doesn't format right. My wife is doing her Masters' Degree Online and needs it. Quoted:
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just download Openoffice, it is free and it works. Have her check with the university to get the education discount price for Msoffice. |