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Hi all,
So my son is building me a new PC, Ive come to realise that I won't be able to re-install my Office 2007 on the new machine.
I have lots of Word docs saved and use them for quotes and other things and need to be able to edit them and email them to customers,
What are my options-I don't really want to pay Microsofts inflated prices and was wondering what your opinions are on the free office packages?
New machine will have windows 8.1 on it.
Thanks Steve
 
Libre office is very very good, most of my work is done on that now.
 
LibreOffice + 1
 
stevetiler said:
Hi all,
So my son is building me a new PC, Ive come to realise that I won't be able to re-install my Office 2007 on the new machine.
I have lots of Word docs saved and use them for quotes and other things and need to be able to edit them and email them to customers,
What are my options-I don't really want to pay Microsofts inflated prices and was wondering what your opinions are on the free office packages?
New machine will have windows 8.1 on it.
Thanks Steve
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Get him to build it with Windows 7 then.
 
Office 2007 should work OK - we're still running 2003 on a 64 bit 8.1 machine here.

If the machine is for business use & you have to share documents with clients then Microsoft office is the only acceptable solution. If the machine os for personal use then, as mentioned already, Libre-office is excellent, and my normal choice for personal computing.

As for W7 vs W8.1 - there's no contest. IMO W7 is a sluggish, muddy-looking OS while 8.1 is clean and snappy, however both will be upgradeable to W10 later in the year.
 
As above, unless it is a "hooky" copy of Office, it should install and run fine on your new machine.
 
I would just go with office. It is actually rather good value for money nowadays.
 
Ok thanks all, so if I went for the "proper Office " program on 8.1 whats the cheapest option on buying it?
Also is it wrong to use the free office to send out a quotation via e-mail?
 
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You can send out a quotation which ever way you want, if you were to save it as a PDF then most will be able to read it as well.

Cheapest is likely to be office 365, you'll get it free with so many stuff you buy like a phone and the likes...It really depends on your wants and needs....For ultimate compatibility there is nothing better...
 
Agree with dj.

The issue with using non-microsoft versions of office is that things don't appear the way they did on your computer, and it could be as simple as having a slightly different font with associated spacing issues on the customer machine, down to data in an excel spreadsheet failing to display as graphs etc. and especially vice-versa. Saving as a .pdf will solve appearance issues, but won't help if you're sending docs and data for editing or further work. Some industries are more tolerant than others too: I work in science, and there would be no mercy for me sending excel files to customers that didn't display content properly.
 
I have been running MS Office XP Pro on both a Windows 8.1 Laptop & Desktop without any problems.
 
stevetiler said:
So my son is building me a new PC, Ive come to realise that I won't be able to re-install my Office 2007 on the new machine.
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What is preventing you installing your old copy of Office 2007 to your new computer?
 
i find abiword is good for simple word processing and the same for gnumeric for simple spreadsheeting - both ultra fast to open without the bloat of some suites
 
stevetiler said:
I haven't got the original discs
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If there is someone in further education in the household then you can get the education pricing on office, but otherwise choose the 'home' version - or go Libreoffice FOC.
 
I haven't got the original discs
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As long as you have a valid product key I will be able to help you out if you wish
 
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Thanks to everyone for the replies-have decided to bite the bullet and just buy the microsoft discs!
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As long as you have a valid product key I will be able to help you out if you wish
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Thanks but I havn't got a valid key-cant even remember wher I got the 2007 version from!

Steve
 
Another vote for Libre Office: http://www.libreoffice.org/

Otherwise Microsoft 2013 Home & Student is about £94.98 inc VAT on Amazon for a single user perpetual licence.

Edit: if you're building a new pc, why not put Windows 7 64bit on it? :confused:
 
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Edit: if you're building a new pc, why not put Windows 7 64bit on it? :confused:

What would be the advantage of that?
 
stevetiler said:
Thanks to everyone for the replies-have decided to bite the bullet and just buy the microsoft discs!

Thanks but I havn't got a valid key-cant even remember wher I got the 2007 version from!

Steve
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Sorry to come to the party late here but if I remember correctly, a piece of free software called magic jellybean will tell you what the product key of your office software is that is installed on your computer (as well as the os)
 
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