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whats the easiest way to get microsoft office?

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  • 05-03-2013 10:35am
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    stephen drohan
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭


    I was wondering what is the easiest way to get Microsoft office for free?


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    Diddy Kong
    Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Diddy Kong


    Microsoft Office is not available for free. The free alternatives would be OpenOffice or Libra Office.


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    stephen drohan
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭stephen drohan


    i thought ytou could download a free months trial with your email address?


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    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    stephen drohan wrote: »
    i thought ytou could download a free months trial with your email address?

    One month free trial Office 365.

    Two months free trial Office 2013 Professional Plus.


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    Overheal
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    Office 365 can be had for about €10/mo on a per month basis or €99 annually, for up to 5 PCs, and includes Skype international minutes.

    I underestimated the convenience of having an email address/office/skype account/cloud/PC storage all synced up to one ID. But I could see how that might make some people (^^^^^^^^^^^^^^) wince a little bit :pac:

    More pertinently to the topic at hand, the fact is that right now Office is far easier to get legitimately than through illegitimate means. Even if you just want the trial version, you'll be up and running in minutes, not hours.


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    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Overheal wrote: »
    I underestimated the convenience of having an email address/office/skype account/cloud/PC storage all synced up to one ID. But I could see how that might make some people (^^^^^^^^^^^^^^) wince a little bit :pac:

    Underestimating again, are you? ;)


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    Merl1n
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    tescos is an easy place to get office buy the card and download


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    Chemical Burn
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    stephen drohan wrote: »
    I was wondering what is the easiest way to get Microsoft office for free?

    Boards is not the place to seeking illegal advice, which asking for torrented software is !!! Get open office, yuou'll get imitation Excel, MS Word etc, and it's much better than the paid version, legal too .. and won't risk ****ing up your computer with a dodgy download


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    yoyo
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    Chemical Burn wrote: »
    Boards is not the place to seeking illegal advice, which asking for torrented software is !!! Get open office, yuou'll get imitation Excel, MS Word etc, and it's much better than the paid version, legal too .. and won't risk ****ing up your computer with a dodgy download

    In fairness, op clarified they meant a trial edition, so no issues there :) . But yes Open Office (or I recommend the continuation of the project Libreoffice) would suffice and not restricted to a trial period :)

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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,320 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    TBF, I like MSO better than OO


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    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Overheal wrote: »
    TBF, I like MSO better than OO

    That's an awful lot of abbreviations! :D

    I'm unsure. I use LibreOffice at home (whenever I rarely need to) and MS Office in Work. I have found some formatting problems when bouncing between the 2, more so if I have an original document in Libre Writer, and open it with MS Word than the other way around.

    But other than that, I don't really notice any difference. I'm not a heavy user though.


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