Hi Les. Can you use all the regular Office features without an internet
connection? It has been said that More of Office 2016 is in the
clouds. I wonder if there is a document that compares features and
functions running locally wihtout Internet to cloud functions.
Brad. I'll give Open Office another try.
Brian. The item on e-bay is not available now. I've heard stories about
resellers product keys that expire and are not recognized by Microsoft
after a while. Glad you got the real deal.
Bob
On 1/26/2016 3:49 AM, Les Kriegler wrote:
I have a local copy of Office 2016. I will be unsub scribing from Office 365
and getting a partial refund of my annual subscription. Personally, I don't
usually care for subscription services for software as you just keep on paying.
Les
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Vogel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 6:40 PM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: buying Microsoft Office first time
Bob,
The first version of MS-Office with the Ribbon is Office 2007,
which gives you an idea of how long ago the ribbon became the default. Even if
you were able to secure a copy Office 2003 I would strongly suggest you don't.
Official support for Office 2003 ended in 2014, and no one, including Freedom
Scientific, is doing their ongoing development on top of non-supported versions
of Office. I'd suggest Office 2010, which has extended support through 2020,
or Office 2013, which has extended support through 2023.
I prefer a version of Office that's fully installed locally on
the machine, and I think that Office 2013 was the last version that worked
entirely locally. Office 365 has a lot of web-based features and I think
Office 2016 does, too, though I can't speak to that in detail.
You may want to consider either
LibreOffice<https://www.libreoffice.org/> or
OpenOffice<http://openoffice.org> , as opposed to Microsoft Office, if cost is a
factor and/or you just want to get a sense of what a full office suite is like. Freedom
Scientific should be able to tell you whether there is any JAWS support for either
LibreOffice or OpenOffice, but those are the two biggest competitors to Microsoft Office
and both are open-source projects that have been around for quite a while and that have
large user bases. Both of these suites can open files generated by MS-Office.
Brian
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