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Microsoft Word on a new laptop
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 10/4/23 at 8:43 pm
I just bought my first new laptop in probably 20 years. It says Microsoft Word was included but when I click on it it's trying to make me pay. Is there a way to get it for free?
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Posted on 10/4/23 at 9:15 pm to RandySavage
Not “legally” for free…common approach is to pay annual M365 subscription that gives you Office Suite and 1Tb OneDrive storage
Posted on 10/4/23 at 10:13 pm to RandySavage
You can use Microsoft Word Online for free. It's browser based, but you can use it.
If this is your first laptop in 20 years, you can almost certainly get by with LibreOffice which can read and save Word files without issue. The menus are different, but if you need something installed locally, it's fine. I doubt you're dabbling in pivot tables and such. My entire company forces over 300k employees to an equivalent, OpenOffice, unless we submit a request for MS Office, and it's fine.
If this is your first laptop in 20 years, you can almost certainly get by with LibreOffice which can read and save Word files without issue. The menus are different, but if you need something installed locally, it's fine. I doubt you're dabbling in pivot tables and such. My entire company forces over 300k employees to an equivalent, OpenOffice, unless we submit a request for MS Office, and it's fine.
Posted on 10/8/23 at 7:27 pm to RandySavage
Just use google docs
Posted on 10/11/23 at 6:02 pm to RandySavage
It's installed, but you don't have a license for it. Either pay a monthly/yearly subscription or buy a license for the cheap on Kinguin.
Posted on 10/12/23 at 11:34 am to RandySavage
Posted on 10/18/23 at 3:33 pm to tunechi
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Seems like a decent deal if you don't want a subscription
Funny as I came on here today to ask some question's about this cheap MS21 push. I don't want to create a different thread for this, so if anyone can help with these i would appreciate it.
1) Is there any major difference between MS Home and Business than the PRO version?
2) I hate doing things where it needs to be in their cloud so why I don't want the sub version, so going this route will totally avoid that and will be native on my laptop(s) right? To where MS has no access to my docs, and all saved on my laptop HD....old school stylez.
3) Big but little thing...does this version allow you to set the 'auto-save,' like we use to be able to? As that is annoying on the 365 version, as you can't set it unless you are connected to their cloud.
4) I will need it on 2 Window Laptops (v.11) and a MACBOOK PRO...need anything special for the MB version or is it exactly the same as the WIN ones?
5) What if I were to have to switch out one of laptops for a new one, is the license on old one transferrable to the new laptop? Or should I buy a couple extra licenses now that they are cheap to add to any new ones I may have in the future? And do they expire?
6) And a random question...is there a good thread on here that discusses creation of your own cloud so I could essentially create the sharing between all 3 of my laptops, but its controlled totally by me and I would be the only one to access. Maybe there is a system that has a good UI, like a MS365.
My bad for the long post and questions...but figure get them out of the way...TIA to anyone able to help.
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