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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1843358" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>I know it's a pain this MS thing. I've seen people describe it as extortion on the Apple App Store, having to pay $98.00 a year to open their own documents etc. but lets face it, it's just another paid-for app out of many. I definitely don't like Office 365, I have always steered well clear of subscription based apps but I did purchase the stand alone MS Office Home and Student version for Mac OS back in 2018. It seemed like a worthwhile investment at the time considering how much I use its apps and I still think it was. To have a word processor app plus Excel synced with One Drive across all my devices and free mobile apps, with a free 5Gb storage and a secondary email address has been well worth the AU $150.00 I paid at the time. I use Skype quite a bit o/seas too so you could say I'm maximising the value of my MS account.</p><p>Having said that it was a pain to instal. It took two calls to MS Australia to finalise the installation and activate the package despite the fact that I already had a MS account.</p><p>I did try all of the alternatives first, Libre Office, Open Office etc, all of which are great products considering they are free, I have great respect for the developers and their devotion to maintaining a free alternative to MS, I even persisted with Apple's Pages app for a time and still use it for some personal documents but in the end I came back to MS Word. I hope I do not need to buy it again and if not it will seem like a pretty cheap investment after 3 or 4 years. That just leaves my wife who is still stuck on the 2016 version. </p><p>I suppose my suggestion would be to do what i did, try the alternatives and start saving up for MS Office.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1843358, member: 204485"] I know it's a pain this MS thing. I've seen people describe it as extortion on the Apple App Store, having to pay $98.00 a year to open their own documents etc. but lets face it, it's just another paid-for app out of many. I definitely don't like Office 365, I have always steered well clear of subscription based apps but I did purchase the stand alone MS Office Home and Student version for Mac OS back in 2018. It seemed like a worthwhile investment at the time considering how much I use its apps and I still think it was. To have a word processor app plus Excel synced with One Drive across all my devices and free mobile apps, with a free 5Gb storage and a secondary email address has been well worth the AU $150.00 I paid at the time. I use Skype quite a bit o/seas too so you could say I'm maximising the value of my MS account. Having said that it was a pain to instal. It took two calls to MS Australia to finalise the installation and activate the package despite the fact that I already had a MS account. I did try all of the alternatives first, Libre Office, Open Office etc, all of which are great products considering they are free, I have great respect for the developers and their devotion to maintaining a free alternative to MS, I even persisted with Apple's Pages app for a time and still use it for some personal documents but in the end I came back to MS Word. I hope I do not need to buy it again and if not it will seem like a pretty cheap investment after 3 or 4 years. That just leaves my wife who is still stuck on the 2016 version. I suppose my suggestion would be to do what i did, try the alternatives and start saving up for MS Office. [/QUOTE]
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