Replacing Office Trial should NOT cost $400.00!!! Can't afford!!

[Bobbe]

Trial Office (60 days) came with computer - trial ran out - went to replace -
COST $400! I'm an old lady on SS and no way can I afford this price! Not if
I went without eating for six months.... My favorite item in Office is
"talking" instead of typing (sometimes my hands hurt, but I'm never short of
words!). Checked out Student/Teacher, but I'm neither & package says you
have to be.....? Course, I'm always 'learning' (does that make me a
student?), and I've done alot of 'teaching' - all age groups (does that make
me a teacher?) - don't know, so not opening the package and am returning it.
It's too much, still, anyway.......

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[Greg Ro]

Trial Office (60 days) came with computer - trial ran out - went to replace -
COST $400! I'm an old lady on SS and no way can I afford this price! Not if
I went without eating for six months.... My favorite item in Office is
"talking" instead of typing (sometimes my hands hurt, but I'm never short of
words!). Checked out Student/Teacher, but I'm neither & package says you
have to be.....? Course, I'm always 'learning' (does that make me a
student?), and I've done alot of 'teaching' - all age groups (does that make
me a teacher?) - don't know, so not opening the package and am returning it.
It's too much, still, anyway.......

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SPAM or a joke? IF you went without eating for six months you would
be dead.

Greg Ro

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

I believe her point was that on a limited income, $400 for software is out
of the question. I understand however decent software is not inexpensive.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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

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

($99.95 - 20.00 rebate = $79.95)

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| Trial Office (60 days) came with computer - trial ran out - went to replace -
| COST $400! I'm an old lady on SS and no way can I afford this price! Not if
| I went without eating for six months.... My favorite item in Office is
| "talking" instead of typing (sometimes my hands hurt, but I'm never short of
| words!). Checked out Student/Teacher, but I'm neither & package says you
| have to be.....? Course, I'm always 'learning' (does that make me a
| student?), and I've done alot of 'teaching' - all age groups (does that make
| me a teacher?) - don't know, so not opening the package and am returning it.
| It's too much, still, anyway.......

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

Trial Office (60 days) came with computer - trial ran out - went to
replace - COST $400! I'm an old lady on SS and no way can I afford this
price!

I can't help you with the price but I can suggest you take a look at Open
Office. It's free so if you don't like it you haven't spent any money.
You can download it here:

http://www.openoffice.org

It will open most MS Office files.

My favorite item in Office is "talking" instead of typing

Open Office doesn't have built in speech recognition as far as I know but
it's changing and improving all the time so maybe it does by now?

It will, however, work with a separate speech recognition program and Dragon
Naturally Speaking costs about $99 if speech recognition is that important to
you.

 

[Harlan Grove]

I believe her point was that on a limited income, $400 for software
is out of the question. I understand however decent software is not
inexpensive.

....

A great deal of decent software is free, even some from Microsoft. However,
Office costs $$$.

 

[Lau Lei Cheong]

Just in case you're choosing OpenOffice... although 2.0 is still in beta,
I'll recommand it over 1.1.4 since it has far less formatting problem when
opening Microsoft Office file formats.

 

[Bobbe]

SPAM or a joke? IF you went without eating for six months you would
be dead.

Greg Ro

DUH! A metaphor................

 

[Bob I]

I guess you haven't priced Ferrari's recently. Same song different
verse. IF you NEED it, you CAN afford it.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Guess I REALLY don't need a Ferrari.