I looked at buying Office for a new Macbook Air (thanks eBay/Afterpay!) and noticed they charge $99/year for a subscription. Is that the cheapest way of getting Office these days or are there other ways to pay for a one-off license/key as in the old days? I still have an ancient version of Office on my iMac but that one won't work on the M1 I believe.
Cheapest Way to Run Office on a M1 Mac
bozbargain on 18/03/2021 - 15:29
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If you have a corporate e-mail running Office 365, you can get it down to $69.30/year. Otherwise look in the Classifieds to see if anyone's got a spot for a Family subscription
Cheapest way is free IF you already have a company O365 account, you can legally download free copy of Office onto your personal machine.
Go to yourcompanyo365.sharepoint.com
Click the 9-dot menu button top left
Click "Office 365 ->" top right on menubar
Then "Install Office"
Then "Office 365 apps"Great, thanks!
how can you find out if your company participates for this?
I think the easiest is just logging into https://www.office365.com with your company address. If that works, you have O365 and should be able to do the above.
Search "Microsoft Home Use Program". Enter your work email address and Microsoft will reply if you're eligible. They offerred me a 30% discount. Don't know if that varies.
So why would you need to pay if your company already has a O365 account and you can do what Hybroid wrote above? Or does your work not have O365?
@bozbargain: Not all workplaces support this. Technically the office install is from work and can come with work policies around logging/monitoring of what you do.
HUP not worth it anymore. They used to sell office for $20 for 3 PC i think back in the old days….. thats how i got my Office 2013 and 2016…. Bugger that i didn't get the 2019 before they killed that.
You can still get visio 2019 for $27 and the Microsoft Project for $27 instead of $949 and $1869 respectively. Get them before they kill them and make them to subscription base too…..
Or find someone who works for Microsoft and ask for a family/friend pass
Microsoft Office Online $0
Wow - had no idea. That may be sufficient as it's only really to do a bit of Word editing/formatting. Thanks!
Grab Libreoffice as it is free and for the vast majority of people will produce files that MS Office is happy with. Okay the requirements for mac cpu is "Intel or Apple silicon processor (via Rosetta - native Apple silicon support is being developed)"
won’t old versions work? I thought Apple were still supporting Intel software?
Not sure. I thought newer Macs or versions of MacOS only supported 64 bit apps. My version is so old it looks pixelated on a retina screen.
Google Docs ?
Yep - that works for me, not for my other half for some reason.
There is OpenOffice (also known as StarOffice) as well. I used to use this as well as Excel, when I had an online shop. I found it retained formatting of cells better than Microsoft.
These days I just get the Subscription version of Office, mainly for online storage. I usually approach a retailer like DM, HN or JB, as they will probably reduce their price, so they can hit their sales targets.
Thanks! Which subscription version are you using/paying for?
@bozbargain: Hi, they have renamed it to Microsoft 365, and I just use the personal. My partner is a teacher, and her kids are students, so they get it for nothing. I bought it last year, and I think I managed to get it down to $85 (from $99?). I may have bought it with a high end logitech keyboard.
They still sell single licenses (non-subscription)
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/microsoft-office-home-stu…
https://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/HP7C2PA/A/microsoft-of…
Officeworks seems to be cheaper:
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/microsoft-…