Need Deal on Office for Mac or other suggestion

[Microman]

I personally have used Office for Mac. But now I need to install on Grand Daughters computer. Any recommendations as to how to buy it and save money. Or a competitive program that is just as good, or better.

Thanks

[kj4btkljv]

I think the home and student version is less than $100.

http://www.buycheapsoftware.com/ms_produ...ry~207.asp

Jeff

[Paul F.]

If one of the free office suites will do the job, it's hard to beat free...

http://openoffice.apache.org/

http://www.libreoffice.org/download

Depending on her uses, either program may, or may not, be "just as good or better".

[Buzz]

IIRC the Home/Student version comes in one and three user flavors, w/ the difference usually less than $20, sometimes a lot less during various sales... not everybody uses all three installs from the three user version. Ask around your extended family, maybe someone w/ an unused install can temporarily adopt the granddaughter. Noeooffice/OpenOffice is another budget keeper option.

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[samintx]

What OS is she using? I'm using MSFT Excel 11 (Office) with ML. I use vs 8 on my OS10.6 and you can buy that cheaply anyway I found it.

There are also the free ones which are open source which work well.

[MrNoBody]

another vote for LibreOffice.

Why pay to be a M$ beta tester :comp:

[Chakravartin]

I wiped MS Office off of my Mac.

I use OpenOffice.org.

[cbelt3]

FWiw the three install version is no longer sold by Microsoft .

[raz]

LibreOffice meets all my needs.

My daughter, though, was ordered to buy Excel ™ for a chem class. Sigh. As if the $500 text books weren't rip-off enough.

[sekker]

Depending on what she needs, Pages and Keynote are really better programs than Word and Powerpoint.

If you have to use office, I prefer word 2008 over word 2011.

But Outlook (in office 2011) is MUCH better than Entourage (in 2008).

Office 2008 (with the exception of Entourage) is a fine package that works great even with SL. So you might be able to save some $$ and get the older suite.