Office programme for my lap top.

Franspeed

Franspeed

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Hopefully one of you technical/computer guru's on here may be able to help me, I am looking for some sort of programme to load on to a laptop that will enable me to add things like a CV onto my laptop, and will let me add/change/delete info from it as and when I need to.

I have heard things like "microsoft office" mentioned, is there anything that can be down loaded free?

Would anyone be able to recommend something, and also maybe have the disc available for me to either buy it from them or borrow it to load onto my laptop, I believe I need a product code/key to operate such a thing...
appreciate any help/info.....(y)
 
Microsoft Office is not, and never will be, free in any sense of the word.

Search for Libre Office instead. You're very welcome.
 
Mako said:
Microsoft Office is not, and never will be, free in any sense of the word.

Search for Libre Office instead. You're very welcome.
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Just had a look for this Chris, found loads of sites offering free downloads, are they all safe to download from or is there any specific one to recommend?
 
If maintaining a CV is your only, or primary purpose for it, a full-blown Office suite might be overkill, a decent word processor even a basic one like Wordpad included in Windows should suffice.

Though I install Libre Office on my machines as recommended by Mako, just make sure to choose the right installer from their download page "windows x86" for 32bit Windows or "windows x86_64" for 64bit Windows.

(If you've 1GB RAM or less then Windows is 32bit, if you've 4GB or more then Windows is 64bit).
 
Mako said:
Microsoft Office is not, and never will be, free in any sense of the word.

Search for Libre Office instead. You're very welcome.
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Microsoft office can be free if you know what your doing but there is no difficulty to it and it’s perfectly legal, when you install office, select custom installation, then deselect everything except Word,Excel, PowerPoint and outlook. Microsoft offered 3rd world developing countries free laptops with Windows embedded version and they had to create a general office package that could be used without cost so voila free office (y) Open office is the default I install if customers don’t want Microsoft products though :beer:
 
Procomm said:
Microsoft office can be free if you know what your doing but there is no difficulty to it and it’s perfectly legal, when you install office, select custom installation, then deselect everything except Word,Excel, PowerPoint and outlook. Microsoft offered 3rd world developing countries free laptops with Windows embedded version and they had to create a general office package that could be used without cost so voila free office (y) Open office is the default I install if customers don’t want Microsoft products though :beer:
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That's interesting. Is that really all there is to it?
My kids (son particularly) are bemoaning their school's insistence on not sharing an installable licence but using the browser versions which particularly Word online is next to unusable; not sure if it's our internet connection or the server but certainly the laptops shouldn't be incapable (same one I did the brochures on in Libre Office Draw).
 
Libre and Open are generally thought of as the best free office suites and are fully compatible with the MS files.

If it's just a bit of word processing you probably don't even need a full suite, Google docs or similar would probably give you what you need




Shouldn't this be in OT.
 
spjmorris said:
Libre and Open are generally thought of as the best free office suites and are fully compatible with the MS files....
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Which is fine for me as I could use either, but the differences in operation makes it confusing for someone learning them both from scratch, Libre is installed on my kids' laptops but they resist using it as they've MS at school.
 
At the risk of running off topic, I've recently picked up an ancient desktop with Lubuntu on, with the intention of both learning it again myself and getting the boys au fait with open software :)
 
You can buy Microsoft Office via Ebay for less than a tenner.
The Ebay listing is for a scrap PC with OEM Office included.....you don't actually receive the scrap PC, just the Licence key.

I got full Office suite and Windows 10 this way.
 
Another for OpenOffice - I've had a few occasions where users have had issues with spreadsheets, couldn't reproduce the issue. Open Office doesn't have the same limitations on row count as M$Office does.
 
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