Looking to buy MicroSoft Word (stand alone) – or Office

[Jerusalem Blade]

What's my best deal? I've always used the non-subscription, but am willing to try their 365. I would want one for myself and one for my wife. I know there are a lot of scam sites around, and would not mind going directly to MS for worry-free purchases.

I gather nowadays it is all digital, and no more DVDs

 

[Edward]

Not what you are asking, but I put Libre Office on my new devices. Documents and even Power Points work fairly seamlessly; spreadsheets may be a bit more difficult.

As far as Microsoft goes, I'd just buy from them.

 

[gkterry]

Libre Office is an excellent program that I have used for a few decades back into the Star Office days and the current version is rock-solid, feature-rich and free! For nearly all of us, it can perform any task that M$ Office can with ease.

 

[alexanderjames]

Non-subscription options directly from Microsoft:

Word only
$160 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-365/p/word/CFQ7TTC0HLKM?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
$80 for the Home and Student version - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mic...dent/cfq7ttc0hlkl?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

If you use Word for commercial use, you cannot use the Home and Student version.

You can also buy the 2021 version including the other applications (which starts at $150 for the Home edition from Microsoft's website).

There are plenty of third party sellers but I cannot comment for the validity/legitimacy of any.

 

[Osnah]

As others have stated Libre Office is free and is a worthy competitor to Microsoft.

If you go the subscription route for Office 365, you can take a look at this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products

With the first option you can use the subscription for 2-6 people for $99 per year or $9.99 per month. The personal option is $69 per year. This can be installed on up to 5 devices. Not a bad deal if you use Word and Excel frequently. You also get 1 TB of cloud storage (OneDrive) with the subscription. If you wouldn't use Word or Excel that much, I would recommend going the Libre Office route and using a free Dropbox account for cloud storage.

 

[Logan]

Another plug for Libre Office. I used OpenOffice since version 1.0 back in 2002 and the Libre Office fork has only gotten better at compatibility over the years.

 

[Ed Walsh]

What's my best deal?

I am!

I have a family plan with five potential members for my one price. Three of them are used, but I have two left. I think one has your name on it. Interested? The cast. Zero $0.00.

Let me know and I'll send you a link you can put in your browser and I think it'll install itself and you'll be up and running in 15 minutes or so.

 

[Jerusalem Blade]

Thanks, Ed! I'll gratefully accept your gift! Send it via a private Conversation.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Another way of getting the entire Office suite and even licenses for other Microsoft products is to register your non-profit with Microsoft and get Enterprise licenses. You can get an E5 license from Microsoft for nonprofits for $15/month or even lower Enterprise licenses.