[Closed] Want to install Microsoft Excel on computer..............

Won't be available free. You have a few choices:

1) Home and student edition is cheap, £70 ish, google for places selling it. I used ecostsoftware.com

2) There's an online version which is free

3) Libre Office is free and about as good as Office 2003, roughly.

I'd second that and use Libre Office myself.

Another option is just using Google Docs as thats a pretty good calc program.

Employer copy? they may have multi-licence deal.

Also check college - if at college or employed by them - they are often able to install stuff like that on employee laptops - I've got a copy of Mind Manager this way (legit) - couldn't afford it otherwise..

Yep, google documents, no install needed job done

Id go office 365 - can pay monthly and u always get the latest releases. 2013 excel has a large number of improvements vs older stuff

Thanks for all the suggestions folk

Office 365 is £60 a year. I'm still happily using office 2007 which I paid £70 for. If I'd been using 365 I'd have paid £420 so far and still be paying!

[url= https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ]Libreoffice[/url] is broadly compatible and free.

[url= http://www.software4students.co.uk/t/categories/microsoft-office ]Software4students[/url] have big discounts if you're in academia or know someone who is.

Microsoft have a [url= http://www.microsofthup.com/hupuk/home.aspx?culture=en-GB ]Home User Programme[/url], it'll cost you under ten quid if your employer is signed up to it.

I use 2010 rather than 2013 as it's about 3-5x faster and more stable.

I use 2010 rather than 2013 as it's about 3-5x faster and more stable.

I've used every version of Office since 4.3, and am of the opinion that Office 2010 is the best version they've ever done.

Office 365 gives you OneDrive storage, with 1TB of online storage included, for £6 a month, which is cheaper than Dropbox. And you get all the apps.

Maybe I'm daft.

Open Office is free...

Probably depends how complicated with Excel you are gonna get as to whether it will be good enough.

Open Office is fine, we use it in over 700 sites and don't have any issues with people using MS Office files on it.

Open Office is basically the same as Libre Office, but a bit uglier.

I have occasionally had issues with Open Office and MS word compatibility, fwiw. Not much though.

office 365 home/business. £55 for 12 months licence on 5 devices. I've got it on Laptops, ipad etc.

Open Office is basically the same as Libre Office, but a bit uglier.

They're forks of the same thing. Open Office is the corporate outing, with paid support and such. Libre Office is more heavily developed, it's the better choice for home users.

Is Open Office or Libre Office the best bet if your business is a titchy business with 2 people using mainly word processing but with the following key requirements:

- Ability to create templates with images
- Add a non standard font
- Typing autocorrection eg. You type SB on the screen appears Skirting Board

Trying to help a friend choose the best way forward

It costs nothing to install LO/OO...just do it and play about with it for an hour or so to make sure it does what you need it to. Plenty of advice online on setting defaults to save as MS compatible formats. Although even this is becoming less of an issue as MS is becoming more open document friendly by necessity.

My lot use OO on a mix of Linux and Win hardware, and have no issues sharing with teams in same organisation on MS.

I have taken your advice gwaelod...

The font the company uses is already included as a standard one (unlike in MS office)

Have tested the autocorrect function. It works very nicely

Have set the saving preference to .doc so they can work with other companies and checked that it opens .docx

Just the template check to go. I'm quite impressed.

Is Open Office or Libre Office the best bet if your business is a titchy business with 2 people using mainly word processing but with the following key requirements:

The two are forks of each other.

OpenOffice is usually the preferred business choice. It has a support option and focuses on stability.

LibreOffice is aimed at home users; it's more bleeding-edge feature rich, but you're on your own.

Is Open Office or Libre Office the best bet if your business is a titchy business with 2 people using mainly word processing but with the following key requirements:

It's a good point on the filesharing and backup. This is currently done via a WD live box but interface is somewhat flaky and a backup is still required. Office 365 would therefore be a one-stop-shop.

Office 365 would therefore be a one-stop-shop.

Also with the 365 subs you get the iPad version as well which is really rather good.