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I think many people would be perfectly satisfied with MS Office Pro features of the 2003 version. I mean -- there is daily work to be done, and the features one would likely use in the office suite. And there was once a time during my work-life as the in-house IT-go-to person and moonlighting as an adjunct professor teaching database theory and programming when I would immediately upgrade my OS and my MS Office -- and I would pay the price. As I planned my comfortable life under a retiree's fixed income, my attitudes changed.
This time around, running MS Office Pro 2010 for the last 8 years, and adverse to the idea of subscription software (like Office 365), I shop and compare more recent but earlier versions of the software with licenses guaranteeing updates but without a hook into my credit card account for whatever renewal fee they charge under a subscription. Getting my AV software as a subscription is enough.
For Office, there is a "Home and Student" version, a "Home and Business" version, and the "Pro" version. I NEED Outlook, which I've been using since 1995 or even earlier. I NEED Excel because I know how to use it, I know its power for running numbers, and it's worth the occasional expense. I may WANT Access, only for having been a database professional with an ORACLE DB Admin Master certificate. I also know I can install an older version of Access with a newer version of Office.
But I look for bargains from reputable sources. This time around, I could see that I would pay about $400 for Office Pro 2021 on a single PC. But I believe in redundancy. I have more than one PC; and I need access to the same software on all of them. Easy enough to temper one's expectations, checking the price to pay for the 2019 or even the 2016 version. I finally found a source for a FIVE-PC installation of MS Office Pro-Plus 2016. Given the mileage I've had from Office 2010 Pro over about 10 years, I think that fills the bill. The EBay seller showed a picture of the optical disc and orange thumb-drive items, but only ships a perfunctory and non-functional USB flash drive, with instructions to a download site accompanied by the activation key. It was a good deal. I paid $130 for Office Pro 2016 to install on 5 PCs when I at most need to install on three. Given all the other alternative purchases I might have made ("Home and Business" or Pro, 2016, 2019 etc.) I made out like a bandit for the price of just over $40 per seat/PC.
I thought (by now, especially) I would have got a 64-bit version of Office. It all works fine, but an error message arising from vestiges of some NUANCE software suggests that it could be a 32-bit version.
How can I determine whether it's 32 or 64-bit? It doesn't matter that much. But I need or want to know what I have.
This time around, running MS Office Pro 2010 for the last 8 years, and adverse to the idea of subscription software (like Office 365), I shop and compare more recent but earlier versions of the software with licenses guaranteeing updates but without a hook into my credit card account for whatever renewal fee they charge under a subscription. Getting my AV software as a subscription is enough.
For Office, there is a "Home and Student" version, a "Home and Business" version, and the "Pro" version. I NEED Outlook, which I've been using since 1995 or even earlier. I NEED Excel because I know how to use it, I know its power for running numbers, and it's worth the occasional expense. I may WANT Access, only for having been a database professional with an ORACLE DB Admin Master certificate. I also know I can install an older version of Access with a newer version of Office.
But I look for bargains from reputable sources. This time around, I could see that I would pay about $400 for Office Pro 2021 on a single PC. But I believe in redundancy. I have more than one PC; and I need access to the same software on all of them. Easy enough to temper one's expectations, checking the price to pay for the 2019 or even the 2016 version. I finally found a source for a FIVE-PC installation of MS Office Pro-Plus 2016. Given the mileage I've had from Office 2010 Pro over about 10 years, I think that fills the bill. The EBay seller showed a picture of the optical disc and orange thumb-drive items, but only ships a perfunctory and non-functional USB flash drive, with instructions to a download site accompanied by the activation key. It was a good deal. I paid $130 for Office Pro 2016 to install on 5 PCs when I at most need to install on three. Given all the other alternative purchases I might have made ("Home and Business" or Pro, 2016, 2019 etc.) I made out like a bandit for the price of just over $40 per seat/PC.
I thought (by now, especially) I would have got a 64-bit version of Office. It all works fine, but an error message arising from vestiges of some NUANCE software suggests that it could be a 32-bit version.
How can I determine whether it's 32 or 64-bit? It doesn't matter that much. But I need or want to know what I have.
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