MS Office 2003?

[jack1953]

My 8 year old Dell, with XP, finally crashed. Got everything backed up, but I cannot reinstall MS Office 2010, as it was a one time gift that GE, who my wife works for, gave all their employees to install on their home PC. No way I can afford the price, even discounted, of 2010, or 2007.

I understand Windows 7 will support back to MS 2003. I guess EBay is the best place to try and get a 2003 disc for the cheapest price???

Thanks in advance,

Jack

 

[GianniDPC]

Yes Windows 7 is compatible with office 2003

 

[seavixen32]

Do you have anyone in the family who is still in full-time education at a recognised educational establishment?

Here in the UK my grandson uses Software4Students and gets software at huge reductions.

Software4Students.com: Find Your Cheapest Online Student Software Store

Be very careful with eBay and Amazon - if the deal is too good to be true, it usually is.

What can happen is that software is sold with an MSDN product key that has or is about to expire so that you have activation and validation problems.

 

[rraod]

Eventhough I have upgraded to windows 7 x64, I am still using the MS Office 2003, as the interface for MSOffice 2007 and 2010 is strange for me and I did not get the hang of it. Microsoft has a 2007 compatibility pack for 2003 which allows the 2003 version of word, excel, powepoint etc. to open and save the new XML based file formats for 2007.

 

[jack1953]

Do you have anyone in the family who is still in full-time education at a recognised educational establishment?

Here in the UK my grandson uses Software4Students and gets software at huge reductions.

Software4Students.com: Find Your Cheapest Online Student Software Store

Be very careful with eBay and Amazon - if the deal is too good to be true, it usually is.

What can happen is that software is sold with an MSDN product key that has or is about to expire so that you have activation and validation problems.

Unfortunately, my son goes to a state university in Florida, and it is not recognized!

 

[strollin]

I don't know about the software4students website but if you go to the actual MS student website, you can buy MS Office 2010 for $99.95. Microsoft Store Online - Office Professional Academic 2010
If the school isn't recognized, there is a way to submit a copy of the student's class listing in order to prove you are a student. I have 4 kids attending college and none of the schools they are attending were recognized so we had to go the other route but it worked fine.

 

[M1GU31]

i still use MS office 2003 on my win 7 pc. I see no need to upgrade all they did was change how the interface looks

 

[seavixen32]

Do you have anyone in the family who is still in full-time education at a recognised educational establishment?

Here in the UK my grandson uses Software4Students and gets software at huge reductions.

Software4Students.com: Find Your Cheapest Online Student Software Store

Be very careful with eBay and Amazon - if the deal is too good to be true, it usually is.

What can happen is that software is sold with an MSDN product key that has or is about to expire so that you have activation and validation problems.

Unfortunately, my son goes to a state university in Florida, and it is not recognized!

OK, check this website out: Academic Superstore : Academic Software discounts for students, teachers and schools

MS Office 2010 for $90 - sounds good to me.

 

[Fantail]

Office `03 is fine and all, still use it at work.

What bugs me is the so called 'Small Business' Office bundles, without Access. Just the full boat has it. There's just something wrong with that.

 

[jack1953]

Let me ask this. Will Open Office see and open Microsoft Office documents?

 

[strollin]

Absolutely. Not only will it see and open but you can write office compatible documents as well.

 

[jack1953]

Absolutely. Not only will it see and open but you can write office compatible documents as well.

Strollin, does that include MS Office 10? All my docs on my old Dell were 10. If so, I will just use Open Office. I don't need all the bells and whistles of MS Office.

 

[M1GU31]

Let me ask this. Will Open Office see and open Microsoft Office documents?

yes

 

[cluberti]

i still use MS office 2003 on my win 7 pc. I see no need to upgrade all they did was change how the interface looks

Compressed file formats described via xml, protected mode, document co-authoring (Sharepoint or Office 365), webapps, powerpivot in Excel, Outlook being almost completely different in the way it manages mail (conversation views, etc) and works with Exchange servers, unified messaging, presence, search, and voicemail, COM/add-in integration across apps, new/integrated deployment and patching.... I could continue, but I think you get the point. Saying Office 2010 is just a user interface update to Office 2003 is like saying Windows 7 was just an interface update to XP. While it *is* a fairly major interface update and it's in your face at first, it isn't the only major change.