That said, if you want, you’ll have to reach deep into your pockets. The continued popularity of Microsoft Office hasn’t seen Microsoft take a soft stance, either.

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The price remains high—but it is an extensive, quality product. Microsoft Office 2019 Home & Business currently retails for $249 for a single PC license. If that makes your wallet weep, check out these methods to use Microsoft Office for free. Use Microsoft Office Online Microsoft itself offers a substantial collection of free Microsoft Office utilities. Office Online is essentially a browser-based version of the latest Microsoft Office suite. It currently includes.

Word. Excel.

PowerPoint. OneNote. Sway. Mail.

People. Calendar. OneDrive There is a catch, however: The online versions of Microsoft Office apps only provide a limited Microsoft Office experience. Word Online, for example, does not include text boxes, WordArt, equations, charts, and more. You can still write a term paper, but you won’t be able to compile a company report. Similarly, you’ll be able to open and view your Excel spreadsheet, but your custom macros won’t load.

While Office Online does lack some functionality, it is a versatile free alternative to a fully paid license. The free versions will happily open your files, allow editing, and importantly, keep your document formatting in place at all times. Microsoft Office Mobile Apps Office Mobile is exactly as it sounds: Microsoft Office, in mobile form.

It is an extremely similar experience to Office Online. The functionality is there, and editing and creating documents on the go is easy—but it is extremely screen size dependent. For instance, editing a Word document on my Samsung Galaxy S8 is reasonable, but attempting to navigate an Excel spreadsheet is fiddly and frustrating. Conversely, editing a Word or Excel document on a larger, tablet-sized screen is actually quite enjoyable.

I’m still not convinced you’ll be running your company accounts from Office Mobile, but it’ll certainly do in a pinch. Microsoft offers individual mobile apps for Android 4.4 (KitKat) and onwards. For a long time, Microsoft offered users of Android 4.3 or lower the older Microsoft Office Mobile app. However, this all-in-one Office app is no longer available.

Android users post-4.4 should download the newer, individual apps:. iOS Microsoft phased out the iOS Microsoft Office Mobile app long before the Android version. Like Android, there is no legacy version of the app. Note: iPad Pro users need a qualifying Office 365 subscription to create and edit documents. I’m not going to list the individual apps like I have done for Android as there are differences between iPad and iPhone versions. But you can find the, and that contains the individual download links. Like Android, If you use Microsoft Office on iOS, here are some newer features you may have missed., bringing new Office features and updates to Apple’s mobile operating system.

Sign Up for the Office 365 Trial Office 2019 The standalone version of Microsoft Office 2019 will be exclusive to Windows 10. When will it come out and how much will it cost? Here's everything we know. If you haven’t already signed up to Office 2019 elsewhere, you can give it a try before emptying your pockets. As such, you can take.

The trial will grant you access to the full Microsoft Office 2019 suite. Also, you get 1TB OneDrive cloud storage and 60 minutes of Skype credits per month. Of course, there is a “catch.” You must provide a valid credit, debit, or PayPal account during the sign-up process. Microsoft will automatically charge your account once your trial expires.

How About the Office 365 ProPlus Trial? Once your 30-day Microsoft Office 365 trial comes to an end, you’ll either be sold or ready to try something different. Alternatively, why not try another trial?

This time using the. You get another 30 days to test Microsoft Office 2019, and access to the same range of Microsoft Office programs as before.

Buy Hardware With Office Bundled Microsoft Office rarely comes bundled with a new desktop or laptop. Unless it is a specific introductory deal, you’ll be purchasing Microsoft Office as an add-on. And if you’re building your own PC, well, you’re straight out of luck. That said, these types of deals aren’t impossible — you just have to strike while the iron is hot. Unfortunately, that means you need a circumstantial trifecta: new hardware with a bundle deal, the money to take advantage of said deal, and the need to actually upgrade your hardware. One option is the Acer Aspire One Cloudbook series. The majority of these laptops come with a Microsoft Office 365 Personal 1-Year Subscription.

While this is handy, you’ll have to keep up the subscription to continue accessing Microsoft Office. Similarly, there are some Dell Inspiron 2-in-1 Laptops that come with a full Microsoft Office 2016 installation, without a subscription. Ask Your Employer or School Everything we’ve covered so far allows you to grab Microsoft Office for free, but also comes with limitations: availability, functionality, hardware. This penultimate option, however, offers some of you a very good chance of acquiring a full version of Microsoft Office 2019 or Microsoft Office 365 completely free. First, you’ll have to check in with your employer, or if you’re a student, your school. Many companies and schools can offer either a free or extremely low-cost Microsoft Office license for one reason: the people working or studying there need it. Businesses will have to pay, but bulk licenses may mean your employer can provide a free or cheap option.

Furthermore, Microsoft has long supported schools with. It might be that you simply have to ask directly. The Best Things in Life Are Free Grabbing a full version of Microsoft Office for free isn’t possible for everyone. But you’ve got some excellent options, nonetheless. The combination of free Office 365 and Office 365 ProPlus trials grants you 60 days of Microsoft Office. After that, the choice is yours. I think 60 days is actually an excellent amount of time to Microsoft Office 2016 is here and it's time for you to make a decision.

The productivity question is - should you upgrade? We give you the new features and the fresher reasons to help you., or whether a free option like Office Online will suffice. Explore more about:,. None of the methods you mention are technically free; workarounds and available plans is what you are talking about and should have been calling them - but I certainly do not hold this against you; however, there is one way to download a free, legal copy of genuine Microsoft Word - but there is a reason few will. (Sorry, this is just Word - this solution predates most of the other components of Office Suite). I informally checked, and the decade-and-a-half old links I recorded then are still live, mostly. Microsoft freely makes available version 5.5 of Word.

One downloads and installs this DOS application, and then downloads and applies a free patch, available elsewhere, to update this to version 6.0, which itself is a standalone Windows application, which conforms to the modern DOC format. I did this years ago, and it worked perfectly. One had really want to go through the considerable and arcane hassle of dealing with DLLs, device drivers, and ad hoc installation frontends, as was de rigeur of the era, but I can attest that it does work, and produces the first version of MS Word for Windows with all the usual and expected niceties of styles, tables, etal. For me (and I suspect 75 percent of all people), I did not want (and use) the advanced features of modern Word, but creating documents in this version, even nowadays, is sufficient to do the preponderance of basic editing and textual styles, that it is produces a document that is compatible with modern day Word versions, which can be then be used to 'spruce up' that document, if desired (and available somewhere!). To see where to start, read: Read the text at the end of the document, concerning MS Word and not Word Perfect. When this solution was made available, there were no MS Word work-alike apps, except that one edited with WordPad, say, to produce an RTF document, which virtually all versions of MS Word could import. So, in a practical sense, (all?) the other options you propose are preferable; however, it remains a 'blast from the past' to see what was and still is possible, then as now.

If you buy a piece of hardware that includes Office 365 Personal for a year, you can choose 8 months of the Home subscription instead. These can be stacked as well. My grocery store was selling cheap tablets with keyboard cases and Office Personal subscriptions for $40. I picked up several and converted the subscriptions to Home from personal. I gave all but one tablet away to friend's grandchildren. This also eliminated many Monday morning phone calls asking me to come and 'fix whatever the kids did to my computer over the weekend ':) I haven't read all of the comments so this may have been mentioned already.

I have hard time to think a thing that I can't do with LiberOffice or any of the earlier release of MS-Office. And I am a very advanced user of Office. The only reason I upgrade MS-Office is because my employer pays for it.

Even then, I used to have OpenOffice until MS-Office included the export to PDF feature, which OpenOffice have had since time I don't remember. The only two selling point for MS-Office is hype (like this article) and in corporate world - shared calendar - if your email server is Exchange. BS The question here is: Do I need to buy a product or pay a monthly rent in order to get Office products? If I stop paying the rent, I don't have no Office product and nor a tiny 50GB Cloud?

(By the way, there are Ton's off free 50GB Cloud available!!). Trial options are worthless. Once done you have no product ever. The answer is very simple: BUY YOUR OFFICE, PRO OR PRO PLUS VERSION. (even older as 2013).

If you buy it, it MIGHT BE or SEEMS more expensive, but it is YOUR LIFE product. When you buy it, you will find some excellent offers around the globe for 100 or 200 usd (OR LESS) for a Professional or Professional Plus product.

200 USD for a 5-year or 10-year product seems very cheap. (40 usd or 20 usd per year) or for 100 usd (20 or 10 usd/y) For android FREE office product and PDF = OfficeSuite + PDF Editor from MobySystems. Never Office from MS because to heavy on resources.

In conclusion, if you don't have the money try the google documents or the OpenOffice Documents. Great ways to use Documents, Spreadsheets, & Presentations for free: 1: Preloaded Office: PC/Laptop/Tablet 2: Borrowed Office: School/work/library/friend's PC 3: Linux Office: Install Linux Mint, Xubuntu, or Ubuntu 4: Free Office: Download Open Office or Libre Office 5: Online Office: Use Google Docs 6: Online Office: Use MS Docs 7: Old Office: Use old version that doesn't require subscription Tips: 1: People with Publisher can use it as a PrintShop alternative 2: Abiword is a great free word processor. It is your attitude that gets on your own way.

There is no such thing as 'actual program.' What is it that you can do with Office 2010 that you can't do with OpenOffice or LiberOffice? But there is at least one thing that you can do with OpenOffice that you can't with MS-Office 2010.

Convert your documents to PDF. I use both products - OpenOffice at home and MS-Office at work.

I have used all the advanced features - mail merge, programing, charting, solver, pivot tables, WordArt, etc. In Office so I know what I am talking about. You could have saved your $50 per license and may be donate $50 for the LiberOffice developers for the entire installation.

That would have saved you a lot of money and not feel like you are a sucker. YOU HAVE PAID FOR YOUR SOFTWARE.

Good list, and good comments Susan B: Office 365 Home Premium is something you may want to consider. It allows you to install on up to 5 computers at the same time 'in your home', explicitly meaning your teenagers. It costs US$100 EVERY year.

But if you have 4 or 5 computers in the house it can be a good deal. If you have an Office 365 license, it includes 'free' Office Mobile installations.

NOTE: although the license says you are limited to 1 / 2 / 5 (depending on your specific 365 license) MS currently does NOT actually count how many mobile devices you have it active on. So you can install it on many more than the official limit, up into a low 2 digits count! Personally I'd split point #6 into 2 separate points, but that is just me. The employer program is known as the HUP, the 'Home Use Program'. There is also a 'Military' equivalent to the HUP available in the US and Canada (I know for sure) and probably other countries too. It is available to members of the military and some police type forces.

At educational institutions the program you alluded to is called 'Student Advantage: UNIVERSITY DEC 1 2013 - “STUDENT ADVANTAGE” - FREE 365 PRO PLUS AT SCHOOLS THAT HAVE SITE LICENSE Broken Link Removed Broken Link Removed The software giant on Tuesday announced a new program called Student Advantage, whereby students worldwide can sign up for subscriptions to Office 365 ProPlus through their institutions at no cost to themselves. The only stipulation is that the schools must have already licensed either Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus for their entire workforces, including faculty and staff. So talk to your Help desk to find out if this applies to your school Get Office 365 ProPlus for students at no extra cost when you purchase Office for faculty and staff When you license Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus institution-wide for all your faculty/staff, your students get access to Office 365 ProPlus at no extra cost. My institution is already paying for students to use Office 365 ProPlus. When can we move to offering it to students at no additional cost? Your institution can order and deploy Office 365 ProPlus to students starting December 1, 2013, provided that it meets all the conditions required for this Enrollment for Education Solutions, Open Value Subscription-Education Solutions, or school contract benefit.

At the anniversary or renewal date for your contract, please contact your Volume Licensing reseller to address additional questions related to the software provided to students. What happens when a student graduates? When students graduate, their Office 365 subscription through the institution ends. They can enroll in other consumer or commercial offers.

MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES NEW STUDENT ADVANTAGE PROGRAM - DEC 1, 2013 - “FREE” OFFICE 365 PRO PLUS Beginning Dec. 1, any academic institution that licenses Office for staff and faculty can provide Office 365 ProPlus for students at no additional cost. Student Advantage makes it easy for qualifying institutions to provide students with the latest version of full Office at school and at home.

Combined with Office 365 for Education plan A2, which is free for schools, Student Advantage gives students access to the same set of world-class productivity tools and services used by Fortune 500 companies all over the world. STUDENT ADVANTAGE PLAN - OFFICE 365 PROPLUS “FREE” AT QUALIFYING INSTITUTIONS - DEC 1, 2013 Starting on December 1st, Universities that license Office Education for their faculty and staff can offer students Office 365 ProPlus for free thanks to a new program called Student Advantage. There is also the discounted 'Office 365 University' which costs US$80 for up to 4 years, while you are registered at a post secondary school. Note: the license terms say it expires when you graduate and that MS checks your enrollment status annually on the date you activated it.

But I have not seen confirmation that graduates have had it cancelled. Note: you also have the option of renewing one time only (for another US$80) if you are a slow learner. Note: Office 365 University has a 3 month free trial period which can be extended to 6 months Office 365 University: Six-Month Free Trial Now Available Get a 3 month extension on the initial 3 month trial by posting on Facebook.

Office 365 University 3 month trial Other than Office 365 University, all of other Office 2013/365 trials are limited to 30 days. One of the comments said that the trial is feature limited. That is not correct as far as I know. If they can show examples of features that are limited I would appreciate learning specifically which ones they had problems with. ALSO, for all of the free trials there is an Official MS 'Trial Extender' tool, that they don't talk about, but it is a real, legal, MS tool.

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Office 2013 Pro Plus 180 trial activation tool Broken Link Removed This page uses an “official” published MS technique to give you a 180 day trial. They simply automate it for you. How to Extend Your Office 2013/365 Trial to 180 Days Before uninstalling your trial, take a look at this link: Broken Link Removed Office Trial Extender V1.0.0.6 Broken Link Removed. Two points here. 1) Office 365 University: It seems that the ability to extend the University version is no longer available. At least, it was not available when I went to extend mine in March of 2017.

2) Microsoft DOES have a means to tell how many copies you have installed. You are allowed two installations of Office 365 University, one for a desktop and one for a 'tablet' (originally it was for a laptop but now the EULA it reads 'tablet'.) I ran into a problem with my desktop installation and had to reinstall Office. When I did I was prompted to 'activate' my copy of Office, when I did I received a message that I already had the maximum allowed installations. I had to go online to 'deactivate' one of the installations. (Go to and log in with your Microsoft.com account username and password for information related to your Microsoft account.) I ran into a similar situation when I tried to install Office 365 University on a second notebook i.e., I was prompted to deactivated an installation in order activate the copy I was installing.

No doubt this is how you can 'use' MS Office free of cost for 'some' time, but they are not 'free versions'. It does not make any sense to install a software for the sole purpose of using it for a free trial period, and then happily uninstall it and forget about it! This article is more like a promotion for the trial versions for Microsoft products. If finally you have to buy the product, what's the great idea in a trial version? Out of the six suggestions, only the web apps are truly free applications, but highly handicapped and restricted in features.

So frankly speaking, we can not use Microsoft Office without paying Bill Gates his due share of dollars! The 'Ask your Employer' is great tip. Also ask your spouse's employer. My wife didn't know anything about it although I remember her bringing a paper home a few years ago but had a current Office lic. She couldn't be bothered to ask her IT or HR. I looked online here: You can click the link 'Don't know your program code.'

Type in your/her work email. It looks at the domain and if the company is enrolled you get an email link with the code in it.

Just get them to forward it to you and you can install it on your home machine easily after that. For us it was $11 for all 9 Office Pro. I've tried every vesion of open office and PowerPoint presentations just don't come through correctly the layout always needs adjsuting. A basic Word/Excel file seems to be okay with open office.

Even for the experienced users, they may also get lost when trying to uninstall a problematic, stubborn or even malicious application. Airport flow 1.6 for mac. In this post we will discuss the following questions: (1) What is the correct way to uninstall AirPort Flow 1.6? In the latter case it is quite necessary to clean out those junk files from your Mac for complete removal. For some novice users, they may have no idea how to remove AirPort Flow 1.6 in a proper way. (2) How to ensure all its accompanying components are removed safely?

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Premium versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, plus Publisher and Access for PC only. 1TB OneDrive cloud storage with advanced security per person. Collaborate on documents with others online. Tech support via chat or phone with Microsoft experts. Annual or monthly subscription. Your subscription will automatically continue.

Cancel anytime.iOS and Android require separate app installation. Office 365 is a subscription that comes with premium apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access (Publisher and Access available on PC only). The apps can be installed on multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets, and Android phones. Office 365 also comes with services like 1TB of OneDrive storage, 60 Skype minutes per month, and Microsoft chat and phone support. With a subscription, you get the latest versions of the apps and automatically receive updates when they happen. With Office 365 subscription plans you get the premium Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access (Publisher and Access are available on PC only).

You can install Office 365 across multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, Android™ tablets, Android phones, iPad®, and iPhone®. In addition, with Office 365 you get services like online storage with OneDrive, Skype minutes for home use, and advanced Outlook.com security. When you have an active Office 365 subscription, you always have the most up-to-date version of the Office applications. Office 2019 is a one-time purchase that includes classic applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for use on a single PC or Mac.

The applications are not automatically updated; to get the latest version, you must purchase Office again when the new version becomes available. Current Office application versions available for one-time purchase are Office 2019.

Previous versions include Office 2016, Office 2011 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and Office 2004 for Mac. Office 2010 and Office 2007 are compatible with Windows 8.1 and earlier. Office as a one-time purchase does not include any of the services included in Office 365.

Internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites and all Office 365 subscription plans. For Office 365 plans, Internet access is also needed to manage your subscription account, for example to install Office on other PCs or to change billing options. Internet access is also required to access documents stored on OneDrive, unless you install the. You should also connect to the Internet regularly to keep your version of Office up to date and benefit from automatic upgrades. If you do not connect to the Internet at least every 31 days, your applications will go into reduced functionality mode, which means that you can view or print your documents, but cannot edit the documents or create new ones. To reactivate your Office applications, simply reconnect to the Internet. Your Microsoft account is the combination of an email address and password that you use to sign in to services like Hotmail, OneDrive, Windows Phone, Xbox LIVE, and Outlook.com.

If you use any of these services, you already have a Microsoft account that you can use, or you can create a new account. As part of signing up for a trial or purchasing Office, you will be prompted to sign in with a Microsoft account. You must be signed in with this account to install and manage your Office software, or to use some subscription benefits, including OneDrive storage and Skype minutes. Both landlines and mobile phones: Canada, China, Guam, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.

Landlines only: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Colombia (excl. Lex), Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia (Jakarta), Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Venezuela. Windows. Windows 7: Start menu. Windows 8: Start screen and Apps view (the view under the Start screen that includes all apps installed on a PC). Windows 8.1: Apps view.If you cannot find your icons in Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, go to the Start screen and type the name of the application you want to launch (for example, Word). Windows 10: Start menu.

You can also type the name of the application you want to launch (for example, Word) in Cortana. You can also pin an application shortcut to your Start screen or your desktop taskbar for convenient access. Your Microsoft account can only have one active subscription. If you activate your Office 365 Personal or Office 365 University subscription before your Office 365 Home subscription expires, the remaining time on your Office 365 Home subscription will be converted to the Office 365 Personal or Office 365 University subscription (whichever you have chosen).

However, you will immediately lose the Office 365 Home benefits of sharing Office with 5 other users, so you may choose to wait until your Office 365 Home subscription expires before activating your Office 365 Personal or Office 365 University subscription. If auto-renew is enabled for your subscription, it will renew automatically. Your auto-renew setting is shown on the after you sign in with the Microsoft account that you used to buy Office. If auto-renew is not enabled, visit to purchase an Office 365 auto-renew subscription. The additional time will be automatically added to the remaining time on your existing subscription.

To renew through the retailer that you purchased Office 365 from, return to that retailer and purchase another pre-paid one-year subscription. Follow the setup instructions included in the packaging – they are the same for setting up a new subscription. The additional year will be automatically added to the remaining time on your existing subscription. If you purchased an auto-renew subscription from Microsoft via MicrosoftStore.com or Office365.com, you have two options for cancelling:. You can cancel online by visiting the, signing in with the Microsoft account that you used to buy Office, and then turning off auto-renew.

With this approach, your subscription will automatically expire when your remaining subscription time is up. To cancel immediately, contact Microsoft support and request an immediate cancellation. If you purchased an auto-renew subscription from Apple via the iTunes Store, you will need to cancel your subscription with Apple. If you purchased an auto-renew subscription from another retailer, you may have to cancel your subscription with that retailer. You can confirm this by visiting the. I'm a fan of MS Office, and have been a user since before there was MS Office (Excel and Word back on the Mac, before the dawn of Windows).

As a professional trainer, I'm disappointed that MS has made it impossible to maintain the desired version, even when it is still supported. When I installed another MS product (on another account, even), it forced me to 'upgrade' from 2013 to 2016.

There was no way to install Visio 365 without upgrading my existing Office installation. Not only does Office 2016 lack a key feature for me (recent folders for open/save), most of my clients are using 2013 and expect me to use 2013 when delivering training. Now I am forced to go find a stand-alone copy of 2013 to install, basically getting no value from my Office 365 subscription, which I had just renewed. I've been using some version of Microsoft Office since 1999 and every year that I've upgraded it has gotten a little better. The only thing that I'm not crazy about is how Publisher has changed in that when you want a graphic image you get sent to Bing images so many of the images can't be used since they're copy-written.

I'm not a big fan of the rent me for a year at $99.00 plus tax. I'd rather pay full price for an upgrade or full product since I prefer to upgrade my software every two years.

Usually there isn't enough of a change in the program to warrant upgrading every year.