MS Office Cheap
5Windows or Mac $50
https://stacksocial.com/sales/microsoft-office-professional-plus-2021-for-windows
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Windows or Mac $50
https://stacksocial.com/sales/microsoft-office-professional-plus-2021-for-windows
Beware. Some of the StackSocial offers well below retail are actually Activation codes from large companies sold on the DL/side by unscrupulous admins. Your storage is controlled and can be viewed/acessed by that company at any time. And if the company negotiates a new contract, your copy could be disabled or revoked at any time.
If it’s too good to be true, it probably is. Also, the $50 could be a large corporation “Home User Program” which is also subject to the parent company bulk licenses contract with Microsoft.
You can also use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for free in Office Online. Then there’s also the completely free and compatible LibreOffice.org
@mike808 as of a couple of years ago the home user program got shifted to Office 365 (at least under my company’s plan)
That said, once you activate, the license is tied to your Microsoft account, so you can reactivate if you get a new PC. Still $50 more than free and no sketchy “renting” software.
@mike808 You just answered a question I had. I bought the Office suite through my company for a previous computer. I just bought a replacement for it & was wondering if I’d have to buy it again. It was incredibly cheap, so it’s not a big deal, but now i know to try to get to the original one I bought.
@lisagd @mike808 Recently found that my HUP Office 2016 disappeared from my Microsoft account. Still have the receipt, still work for the same company, but I have no way to reinstall and activate. My guess is they nuked it when they switch to 365 a few years ago.
@lisagd @walarney There may be hope. You can recover your activation key from Windows and get a copy of the offline installer or ISO image if you need to re-install/re-activate. Keeping the Windows product activation in your account is a recent thing, so not surprising that it isn’t there.
@lisagd @mike808 Unfortunately, key could not be retrieved from Windows. Reason for reinstall was that one day it just started telling me it wasn’t activated and quit. No key could be found. Original install was a “live” install direct from web page, so I don’t think it ever showed me a key that I should have saved.
@walarney If it is still running/operational, you can install this utility from Nirsoft.net to retrieve your keys. If not, try it anyway.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html
@mike808 Thanks, but i tried a few of those utilities and none were successful. Makes sense that if Office couldn’t find it, others wouldn’t either.
(Thirteen year old computer was having frequent freezes/blue screen/black screen/reboot occurrences and I suspect it got messed up during one of those.)
@mike808 @walarney You’re worse than me! My old computer was only 11 years old.![:smile:](https://dj5zo597wtsux.cloudfront.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f604.png)
@lisagd @walarney
LOL. Whippersnappers! My abacus works just fine. Don’t even need a power outlet or a battery pack. Same for my slide rule…
@lisagd @mike808 Component upgrades over the years. Paid like $30 for a used top end Core 2 Quad at one point, etc. It still did what i needed it to do.
Even with the shiny new Alder Lake/DDR5 replacement, feeble human operator is still the weakest link.
Also use Office On The Web for free. Similar to Google Docs, and closer to O365 than this standalone version. The stand-alone version works directly with files, Office-on-the-web works with files on your OneDrive.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/free-office-online-for-the-web
I’d still go with LibreOffice.org, especially if you have Linux and want to work on documents between OSes, and keep files on your SAN.
@mike808 We use LibreOffice at home and it (mostly) works great. We did have one strange problem using it recently. We were dealing with an Oregon state agency via their website, using a downloaded document template. The instructions said to use Microsoft Office, but we used LibreOffice to add our data - seemed to work fine. But when we tried to upload the modified document, there was a (vague) error and it would not accept it. Their (lame) tech support was no help. I finally remoted into my work PC, loaded our LibreOffice document into Microsoft Word then saved it. Then the website would accept the document.
This was but one of many fuckups we (and many others) encountered dealing with this state agency. But they did eventually process our request. Apparently, some others were not so lucky.
@macromeh Make sure you “save as” the proper document type (extension). “dotx” is a document template, while “docx” is a document. You can make that permanently default when saving in LibreOffice in your options under “file open/save”.
@macromeh @mike808 One of the versions of OpenOffice had a bad habit of defaulting to saving as the template file type, but that was quite a while back.
@mike808 Thank you, I still use a Mandriva based distro for my primary system.
Office 97 remains my favorite version, though I have to step up to the buggy-as-hell 2003 version for some Excel sheets. 2007 and later, ugh, no, we hates the ribbon, it burns us, it freezes!
If you are a student you can get a copy of office through educational software sites (and sometimes directly from your university) for dirt cheap.
What kind of boomer speak is this?
@spike101x
Think of it as an app for content creation nevessary for sustainable jobs in the real world.
@spike101x Boomers know that the very best word processor is and shall always be Wordstar. (Except for those like me who still miss MultiMate, or the poor misguided souls who drank the WordPer
verfect kool-aid) Tech boomers are still fighting the vi/edlin/emacs war on a remote trio of hills…@spike101x @werehatrack Even further back in the mists, this boomer used dedicated Wang workstations for document processing. Using them was cumbersome and tedious, but presented many opportunities for office humor
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@macromeh
such as “What a great job. I get paid to bang away on my Wang for 8 hours…” <memories>
@chienfou The Wang workstations were a shared resource and during busy times you had to sign up for your chance to pound away. Of course there was often someone who didn’t finish during their allotted time and made you wait to get started on your own session. Frustrating!