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    Office Trial?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Sara1477, Jan 16, 2006.

  1. Sara1477

    Sara1477 Newbie

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    Last night the salesperson at Office Depot told me that a trial version of Microsoft Office was included. When I asked him the price of purchasing Office Basic before the trial was over, he walked me over the software section and pointed to "MS Office Student and Teachers Edition" and told me I could upgrade the trial version with that.

    Does anyone know anything at all about this? I'd prefer to buy my laptop from Costco or somewhere else but I don't want to pay $300 for Office (which I need for work).

    Any help is greatly appreciated!

    Thank you!
    :decision:
     
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  2. USAFdude02

    USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Sara1477,

    The student/teacher edition is a little cheaper because it only includes the 4 core applications:

    Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

    The full office includes:

    •Access
    •Excel
    •FrontPage
    •InfoPath
    •Live Meeting
    •OneNote
    •Outlook
    •PowerPoint
    •Project
    •Publisher
    •Small Business Accounting
    •Visio
    •Word

    That is more for businesses. So that is why the cost is less for the Teacher/Student edition.
     
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  3. Amber

    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

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    One thing about the student/teacher edition -- you have to either be a student or teacher. I know several places require you to show some type of educational ID in order to buy that version.

    You could try openoffice ( www.openoffice.org). It is free and downloadable off the web. It pretty much gives you the same things that you would get with MS Office, and as far as I know, you shouldn't have any compatibility issues.

    SG
     
    Amber, Jan 16, 2006
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  4. dragonesse

    dragonesse Notebook Deity

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    If you work for an educational institution, such as a college, you might try the bookstore to see if they have academic copies of office. I work at my college computer store and we sell faculty copies of office professional for $75, studen copies (also professional) for $95
     
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  5. iOsiris

    iOsiris Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah educational institutions have academics copies available, some might even have a MSDN subscription that will allow you to download it for free.

    Also the alternative is OpenOffice. I myself actually prefer using OpenOffice over Microsoft Word and it really can do just about everything Microsoft Office does and can save in Microsoft proprietary formats (it does have a warning it isn't fully compatible). However, I have not encountered any compatiblity issues as of yet.
     
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