Cheap options for MS Office?

[DigDog]

i use libreoffice and it's excellent. it evens performs great with 2.8ghz amd cpu with only two cores.

i know, i'm shocked companies still pay for MS Office. even IBM moved completely to OO since about 2 years ago.

 

[mikegg]

i know, i'm shocked companies still pay for MS Office. even IBM moved completely to OO since about 2 years ago.

Google Docs is so much better. No mysterious formatting rules. Free. Far easier to share documents. Lives in the cloud so you can access anytime. Incredible collaboration.

 

[DigDog]

yeah, but companies might question the security of having your documents hosted online :/

 

[mikeymikec]

At $10 a month, the break even point is the 23rd month. I don't think two years qualifies as "quickly eclipsing" anything..

Since software doesn't wear out or become faulty due to age, I think two years is an extremely short period of time.

i know, i'm shocked companies still pay for MS Office. even IBM moved completely to OO since about 2 years ago.

I've encountered an attitude often enough that I'm pretty sure is based on absolutely no experience with LO/OO, so I'm not surprised at the lack of take-up. I think there's an element of fear around some kind of idea that if one starts using an "alternative" office product, they'll become rusty with the "real one", and/or perhaps it really is the end of the world if they encounter a problem with an office product.

I'm not going to say that LO/OO is a perfect and free replacement for MSO, in my experience both have their foibles and weak spots, and I'm sure that for some people only one fits the bill for their needs.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Google docs isn't bad and in a pinch works fine. I tried using their mapping feature two weeks ago as I was going to make a 2d map of the world to represent sales in a report I was writing. I couldn't get it to do exactly what I was looking for so I ended up just charting it with excel 2010. I like how office 2013+ stream updates in real-time such as dictionary revisions and citations when quoting other sources.

 

[jardows]

A question that hasn't been asked yet - what parts of office does she need? O365 is the equivalent of Office Professional, and includes everything - Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Publisher, Outlook, One Note, and maybe some other things I really don't think of. If she is just needing Word, Excel, Power Point, Office Home and Student comes in frequently for just over $100.

Publisher is a very nice program to have if you can use it. I can, and that alone makes the O365 subscription worth it. You can otherwise only get Publisher as a stand-alone product for about $100, or with the full Office Professional for $370 per computer.