office Lite....less calories and dough

[bigbang]

Is there an inexpensive office lite priduct for poor home users?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

There are lower cost "office" products but not "Office".

 

[bxb7668]

Take a look at the open source www.openoffice.org. It's free.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Microsoft Works Suite 2005
http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=001

Features
http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/choose.aspx?comparison=Works2004vsWorks2005

(includes Microsoft Word... the same premier word processor featured in Microsoft Office XP)

($99.95 - 20.00 rebate = $79.95)

 

[Harlan Grove]

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote...

Microsoft Works Suite 2005
http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=001

....

The only advantage it arguably has over OpenOffice is its word
processor, an earlier version of Word. Works' spreadsheet and database
are, um, underpowered. If the few features they provide are adequate,
there are free alternatives that eat less disk space.

A case can be made that Office is worth the price. It's much more
difficult to make that case for Works even if it lists for just under
USD100.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

If bigbang is a poor starving student or teacher, he/she could look into the
Student/Teacher edition of Office. It has the full versions of Word, Excel,
PowerPoint and Outlook. The street price is under $130.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

Is there an inexpensive office lite priduct for poor home users?

The products that combine to make MS Office are available individually so if
you only need Word you can purchase it as a single program.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/word/howtobuy/default.mspx

If you need several of the office programs it's less expensive to buy the
entire suite.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

And I have seen it offered at about $99 as well.

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After furious head scratching, Herb Tyson [MVP] asked:

| If bigbang is a poor starving student or teacher, he/she could look
| into the Student/Teacher edition of Office. It has the full versions
| of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. The street price is under
| $130.
|
|| Microsoft Works Suite 2005
|| http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=001
||
|| Features
||
http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/choose.aspx?comparison=Works2004vsWorks2005
||
|| (includes Microsoft Word... the same premier word processor featured
|| in Microsoft Office XP)
||
|| ($99.95 - 20.00 rebate = $79.95)
||
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|| Carey Frisch
|| Microsoft MVP
|| Windows XP - Shell/User
|| Microsoft Newsgroups
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|| "bigbang" wrote:
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||| Is there an inexpensive office lite priduct for poor home users?

 

[Harlan Grove]

David R. Norton MVP wrote...

The products that combine to make MS Office are available individually so if
you only need Word you can purchase it as a single program.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/word/howtobuy/default.mspx

If you need several of the office programs it's less expensive to buy the
entire suite.

If the OP only wanted Word, then it'd be cheaper to buy the latest
version of Works, which comes with Word 2002, rather than standalone
Word 2003 because Works is cheaper. But it'd be up to the OP whether
the few additional features in Word 2003 vs Word 2002 available when
not connected to a server would be worth the additional cost and the
loss of the other apps that come with Works.