Microsoft subscription

[Elsa TLC]

Im a bit miffed. I thought U was paying about £15 a year for Office. This normally renewed in January

Now they want ove £100 .

Does this all seem right?

Started off years back buy a package with your PC and that was it done and dusted.

 

[StephenStephen]

Yes, that seems about right I'm afraid.

What I've done is to insist on the version without ai, which is a bit cheaper - I think it's called office classic?

 

[StephenStephen]

The other option is to use a free alternative like OpenOffice

 

[Mottie]

Started off years back buy a package with your PC and that was it done and dusted.

That’s what I still have. Office 2000 I think I have. I only used word on my laptop and PC for sending letters and excel for doing my accounts. I don’t do either now.

Im a bit miffed. I thought I was paying about £15 a year for Office. This normally renewed in January

Now they want over £100 .

Do you need Office? Surely there’s other packages that are free nowdays?

 

[ETAF]

correct it went up substatially last year , i was payying £59 and went to £84 for personal version

i do a lot of excel stuff on foruma, and so i like to have all the latest functions available which you only get with the subscription

why do you thing it was £15 ? dont think its every been that cheap , unless on some special deal or maybe via a company,
I know you could buy 2013/2016 version for £8 through a company for persoanl use , which i did many years ago

 

[fillyboy]

The other option is to use a free alternative like OpenOffice

I used to use open office as I begrudged paying for something that was once free, however after emailing out invoices and estimates I found some people were unable to open them on their computers so I reverted to Microsoft.
Now I'm retired I would happily revert to open office.

 

[ETAF]

i setup open office and libre office for many people and seup to save as word/excel documents - dont think any one had issues opening them, maybe some thing was off - but if you dont need all the functions etc and its just for that sort of thing, openoffice , libre offive and in fact google sheets is pretty good

 

[Elsa TLC]

I got it wrong saying £15. I cant remember how much. But they took the subscription alway automatically.


Im very basic with word and Excel so dont need Ai or anything else that would confuse me more than I already get.
But I need to send invoices and estimates out to customers so just want something easy like Office used to be.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Yes, that seems about right I'm afraid.

What I've done is to insist on the version without ai, which is a bit cheaper - I think it's called office classic?

Im alway paranoid that these things are a scam. I know it comes once a year but think this has shot up.

Thank you Stephen Ill look up Classic office.

 

[StephenStephen]

Just to check - are there other people using your subscription?
If not then go for personal rather than family - it's cheaper.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Don't worry, it comes off your tax bill.

Andy

 

[Elsa TLC]

Don't worry, it comes off your tax bill.

Andy

Normally I dont have to think about it. It comes out of my bank and thats that. But now its stopped me from using until I subscribe.

Im confused as its offering 1 month free trial yet Ive been paying subscription for yonks.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Just to check - are there other people using your subscription?
If not then go for personal rather than family - it's cheaper.

Both my girls are school age and up until now they haven't had to. However I would like to buy a desktop for family use.

I have a Mac air, and I think that may add to the problem.

 

[King Billy]

You can still buy (one payment - one PC) Microsoft Office.

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[James Carmichael]

Before you swap your MS Office for LbreOffice or similar, check what files you have in Onedrive - storage of files there is part of your MS subscription, so if you cancel that you (eventually) lose your files. Move em somewhere else first.

To get to MS Office Classic (without AI) you have to select all of the options that make it look like you are cancelling your subscription, then they helpfully "reveal" the classic option at the last step.