Legit MS Office?

MS Office for nowt is obviously a scam. It's all subscription based now anyway.
Best case you might get some volume licensing key which could theoretically work for a while in some circumstances until it doesn't.

Groupon in general is not necessarily a scam, but it's used by companies to offload crap that they couldn't sell elsewhere.
Any 'discounts' are entirely funded from the vendor, with Groupon taking a big wedge of any revenue, so most of them are either grossly overpriced to start with, will be bait-and-switch deals where what you want is suddenly unavailable but some alternative at 10x the price miraculously is, or it's crooks selling things they never had or owned in the first place.

Either way, the whole lot deserves a swerve in the opposite direction.
 
The seller has their own site selling the item for $99.99. So, it doesn't add up.

I will try my luck with the bigger scammer instead: MS. Their outlook 2016 stopped connecting to hotmail because they wanted so. Strangely enough OL 2016 is not end of life until end of this month. That means they deliberately broke a live product to increase sales of newer versions. I will see if there are update fixes.
 
The free LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice are as good as MS Office these days.
I use Google docs (free) for everything nowadays too.
 
I bought a pc version of Microsoft office from Groupon a few years ago.
I think I paid £20 for the cd.
Was delivered and I still use it and do updates.
Possibly, they get rid of a version when a new one comes out?
 
what features do you use on outlook, I stopped using outlook a long while ago - I have subscription to 365 on OSX , and the new version my wife used somuch resource on the small macbook , we switched to apple mail on hers

BUT i use thunderbird and have done for quite a while now, and its very good

I think its terrible that microsoft stop access to hotmail/outlook emails with outlook.

as mentioned free version of office around, however, i help out with excel as a hobby on lots of forums . so like to have the latest excel , otherwise i would use the free ones - as they do most of what I personally wanted to do for many years
and when i was setting up PC/laptops/ for people, most weeks, I used open office unless they specifically wanted MSOffice, and on OSX used apple "free version" of office , pages/numbers/keynote etc
 
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Kinguin.
Buy yourself a persistent office subscription, don't waste your cash on 365 every year

Or even libreoffice or open office.
 
ETAF said:
what features do you use on outlook
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I want outlook largely to avoid any learning curve. Then I can just plug in my existing .pst files. Another issue with a newer MS office is that it needs a microsoft account just to install. I am not keen on given them my personal info however trivial these might be. My main use for ms office is just emails and occasional word and excel.
 
If I pm you about an Excel feature that's driving me mad, would you help me out?
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do my best
I could start a thread...
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you will then get help from others

or try one of the excel forums

Excel Help Forum

Excel Help and Support from Excel Experts( MVPs). Excel2003,Excel 2007, Excel 2010 What's New in Excel and Excel Tips and Tutorials.
www.excelforum.com
 
DiyNutJob said:
I want outlook largely to avoid any learning curve. Then I can just plug in my existing .pst files. Another issue with a newer MS office is that it needs a microsoft account just to install. I am not keen on given them my personal info however trivial these might be. My main use for ms office is just emails and occasional word and excel.
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www.syscurve.com

How to Import PST to Thunderbird - A Complete Guide

Learn why users import PST to Thunderbird, manual methods to convert PST to Thunderbird, and how PST to Thunderbird Converter helps you perform this migration.
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After much pondering, I decided to stick with outlook. There was no disruption after uninstalling the old version and installing OL 2021 + office. All my existing connection settings and PSTs worked without additional effort.

I found no way to update-fix office 2016 retail click2run. It was probably possible for the volume licensing edition. So MS is a big scammer in my book for deliberately breaking a supported product.

I found another license key seller that had a very large proportion of positive views on TrustPilot, and took a chance. After messing about with a bad key, they sent me a good replacement. Paid £13 for an MS free-phone activation, cheap but with some frustrations.

An MS account appeared to be needed to get the installer. An account isn't needed for phone activation. Theoretically, it is possible to install and activate without an account if the likely-generic click2run download installer could be gotten from a different source.
 
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Glad it’s all worked out and you provided an update few di

I thought outlook had changed from using pst files to ost files
I used to use pst all the time and found really useful as a backup and transfer between pcs
But as I mentioned stopped using out look some time ago now
 
PST can be used for archiving. Anything I don't want stored on the internet, I just drag them into PST. I have stuff going way back when emails were delivered into PST. Rather than migrating stuff out of it I just manually put stuff into it on an ad hoc basis.
 
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