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The Cheapest Ways to Get Microsoft Office for Your Mac or PC Today Techinch tech, simplified. The Cheapest Ways to Get Microsoft Office for Your Mac or PC Today Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 There's two expensive application suites that are almost considered a necessity to have on your computer: Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite. Many find ways around paying for the latter (alternate apps work, there's the cheaper apps that work for most stuff, and such), but Office is a bit trickier. Especially this year. After releasing Office 2013 for Windows and the new Office 365 subscription version of Office, traditional Office pricing has gone up. Used to, all editions of Office let one user install Office on up to two computers, which worked great if, say, you had a desktop and a laptop.

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Then, the Home and Student edition let you install Office on up to 3 computers in the same household, which was a great deal for families. With Office 2013's release, now all editions of both Office 2013 and Office 2011 for Mac are only licensed to be installed on one computer. At least you're still allowed to if you need to, something Office 2013 oddly didn't allow at first. The Cheapest Way to Get Office Today So, if you want to purchase Office today, and not get it as part of a subscription, then here's your options: Office Web Apps I know, I know: it's not real Office, but it's close enough for basic use, and it's free.

It's the best option if you really need to go cheap on Office. Check out my full review of the at Web.AppStorm, or go try them out for yourself at. You might be surprised. Real Office Ok, so you want real Office to install on your computer? Here's the options today:. Office 356 - the subscription version of Office for Mac and PC. Office 2011 for Mac.

Office 2013 for PC. Office 2010 for PC Office 365 The first option — and easily the best if you have more than two or three computers — is, Microsoft's new subscription for Office. For $9.99/month or $99.99/year, you can run Office on up to 5 computers (Macs or PCs), get 20Gb extra Skydrive storage (a $10/yr value, though even that's way cheaper than, say, extra Dropbox storage), and 60 minutes of Skype calls per month (worth around $20/yr). You'll get full Office - Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, as well as Access and Publisher on a PC.

If you'd pay for Skype and extra Skydrive storage as well, and have 5 computers in your household, it works out to around $14/computer/year. Students get even cheaper: $79.99 for 4 years of Office 365 for 2 computers. That'd work out to around $10/computer/year. If you're running a business, makes a fairly compelling choice as well if you do need Office, or even if you just need hosted email. You can get hosted Exchange email for your team starting at $4/month, and can get Office for your employees (and yes, they'll each be able to run it on up to 5 devices) for $12.50/month.

You can and see what works for you. I'm actually considering giving the cheaper option a shot for my own domain's email, and have an upcoming AppStorm series about it. Oh, there's one more awesome feature in all versions of Office 365: you can run Office — full Office — from the web if you're away from your computer (though it only works on PCs). It lets you essentially stream the full-featured app, downloading the features you need as you need them, so you can use full Office anywhere. That's pretty nifty.

So, all of those are decent options if you have a lot of computers to use with Office, and if you want Microsoft's other services anyhow. The only problem is, you don't really own Office, and can't use it forever. It's a subscription. If you'd buy Office upgrades each time they come out, it likely won't work out more expensive, but you have to consider the best for you. If you want real Office that you own, for good, then there's still options.

Office 2011 for Mac Mac users don't have a new version of Office yet, but even still, the existing version of Office got slapped with the same 1 computer per copy of Office restriction. The good thing is, there's still copies of the on Amazon, and it'll still get all of the latest updates. That'll get you Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for up to 3 Macs in the same house for $120. That's $40/Mac, and if you use it for 4 years without buying an upgrade, that'll cost $10/Mac/year. If you're using Office professionally, you can get a for just under $200, or there's a few copies of the for $299.

Now, both of these prices are only for right now; as soon as those copies sell out, then Office 2011 will cost $119 per computer for Home and Student. Also, remember that Office for Mac is due for a refresh perhaps later this year, so if you can, it might make the most sense to hold off on a purchase, or go for so you'll get updates included. Office 2013 for PC If you want Office 2013, even just for one computer, you're likely best to go with. Your cheapest options, otherwise, are for $139.99, and for $219.99. The former gets you Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote for home use, while the latter adds Publisher and Access and is licensed for business use.

Both options only are licensed for one PC, though the good thing is you can use it perpetually. If you only need the basics of Office on one PC, then Office 2013 Home and Student will likely work out cheaper over time. Otherwise, though, the subscriptions start looking really attractive price-wise.

And Office 2013 is nice, with a much more streamlined UI across the whole suite, web app creation in Access, PDF editing in Word, smart data entry in Excel, and more. It's worth checking out just maybe not as a boxed version, as you would have purchased Office before. Office 2010 or older versions But you know what? Office 2010 or 2007 is still a good option if you've got a copy around, and if you're not feeling like you've got to have the latest features, then your best value would be to stick with what you have.

Office 2010 is still quite similar to 2013, and even 2007 is enough up-to-date to keep you from feeling too behind. Or, if you need to buy Office, you can still get for $169, and it'll still let you install it on 3 computers, which works out to just $56/computer. That's a perpetual license, so you can keep using it forever, making it quite a bit cheaper right now than Office 2013 or Office 365 if that's all you need. Plus, it'll run on XP and newer, while Office 2013 and Office 365 will only run on Windows 7 and 8. There's also still copies of the pro versions of Office 2010 around on Amazon, as well as Office 2007, but none of those would really work out cheaper than their 2013 competitors right now.

Though, that's still an option if you need to buy Office for XP or Vista PCs. That's a wrap So, that's a lot to consider, but hopefully it'll help you find the best option to buy Office for your PC or Mac in 2013, or get around having to shell out for it. The Office Web Apps on really are a great option, and older versions of Office still are a great value option — especially if you already own them. But Office 2013 is a compelling release if you're on a PC, and the new Office 365 subscriptions are far more interesting than they look at first glance. I'm especially interested in their hosted Exchange/Sharepoint/Office options, and that's surprising for this Mac and web app guy that's almost left Office behind. Microsoft may have made some missteps with Windows 8 and Windows Phone, but they've also going on. @reply me on.

Advertisement I used to be that guy who rolled his eyes at MacBook users, then I bit the bullet and bought an iMac. Just buy a Mac, take a couple of days to settle in and never look back. But for Microsoft Office users, the need to buy Office for Mac again can be a hassle. If you work in the traditional office environment that runs on Excel and Word, you might have to bite the bullet. But if you’ve outgrown that world and still need to edit and send Office documents every now and then there are alternative options. If you’re not ready to buy Microsoft Office for Mac or run your old While Apple provides Bootcamp, a built-in OS X application for installing Windows on your Mac, virtualization program VMWare Fusion 6 allows users to run Windows without restarting their Mac first., these are your best alternatives. Google Suite If you’re going to let go of the Microsoft world, your best bet is to join the Google alliance.

Google, and are the three alternatives to Microsoft Office, Excel, and PowerPoint. There’s no real alternative to Outlook beyond Gmail, and you can get OneNote on the Mac for free. Google’s suite is really quite good.

It integrates well if you already have a Google account. You’ll be able to add and open an Excel file you received via Gmail in Google Sheets by pressing a button. You can easily import Microsoft Office files to work on them, export them once again in Microsoft Office formats to pass them around. And if what you’re doing is fairly basic, and you use fonts and formatting that’s standard these days, you can get away with it. The other party will never find out that you’re not using full-fat Microsoft Office. In some ways, Google Docs is more powerful than Microsoft Word.

There’s an Word-processing for students has long been the domain of Microsoft Word, but the recent release of add-ons is making Google Docs an appealing free option., beautiful templates, there are superior research tools built-in and then there’s Google search capabilities. Plus, there’s the advantage of Google’s cloud prowess. Collaborating with multiple users simultaneously in a document is a pure joy. It’s a little thing but it does wonders for productivity. The entire suite is free and you get 15 GB of storage for free as well. The only problem is that there’s no real desktop app for any of these (you can work offline on documents in Chrome, The downside to cloud-based services and apps is that you always need to be online to use them. We show you how to take Google Drive offline & what to keep in mind.).

Accompanying apps for iPhone and iPad are quite good as well. LibreOffice is widely recognized as the best open source alternative to Microsoft Office suite, which means it’s completely free and available on a whole host of platforms.

If you’re used to the Microsoft Office user interface (pre-ribbon era), it won’t take you long to adjust to LibreOffice. Unlike Google’s apps, LibreOffice suite comes with fully featured offline desktop apps with all the pro features you expect.

To make the deal even sweeter, LibreOffice recently added an online component. So you can sync files from Google Drive or OneDrive and edit then right in LibreOffice (there’s no collaboration feature, though). LibreOffice also does a good job in regards to formatting when importing Microsoft Office documents. Even complex Excel spreadsheets (like mortgage calculators) imported in LibreOffice Calc work like they should. LibreOffice actually grew out of OpenOffice, which used to be the de facto alternative to Microsoft Office. But OpenOffice hasn’t seen any meaningful updates recently and the management is considering retiring the project.

So we advise you to OpenOffice is no longer a free Microsoft Office alternative you can count on. We have compiled the four best options for Windows, Linux, and Mac. LibreOffice’s track record in the recent past has been great.

You’ve got a new Mac and it’s likely you’re never going back to Windows. Included with your Mac was the iWork Suite:, and. These are Apple’s own alternatives to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. As these are Mac apps, the UI is quite different. Instead of being top heavy, the options show up in a contextual menu on the side. And you just won’t have as many options as the Microsoft Office suite. All three apps are now quite mature and all the basics are covered.

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Once you get used to them, they’re actually a joy to use (something I can’t necessarily say about Microsoft Office). While customization options are limited, everything that’s available is quite polished. When you create a presentation in Keynote, chances are you’ll end up creating something beautiful. The same goes with Pages, and moving text, images, and graphs around is a seamless experience that doesn’t make you want to pull your hair out.

The iWork Suite lets you import and export documents in Microsoft Office formats (it will save to the default iWork format, though). And as long as you don’t use a Mac specific font, doing a back-and-forth with Office documents shouldn’t be a big problem. IWork also has online collaboration options but frankly, I wouldn’t recommend using them. They’re nowhere near as reliable as Google’s offering.

Quip isn’t a fully featured alternative to Microsoft Office. But if you were never comfortable with Word or Excel, Quip’s minimal approach to document editing might just be for you. It’s what I personally use as a Word alternative. In Quip, there are no ugly, complicated menus to worry about. Formatting happens using shortcodes (kind of like Markdown, but not entirely).

A formatting bar shows up when you select text. Common shortcuts are also supported. Quip also shines when it comes to collaboration. While it’s not as feature rich as Google Docs, Quip’s multi-user editing and comment features are still quite good. Quip’s iOS app lets you edit documents on the go. Quip’s default themes will help you generate beautiful PDF documents. When nothing else will do, just open Office.com.

Office Online is Microsoft’s free and basic Microsoft Office service that works online. While the feature set is limited, the basics of document editing, spreadsheet formulas, and presentation options are all covered. You’ll get access to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Edit Office Documents in Dropbox Dropbox’s partnership with Microsoft means you can open a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document shared with you on Dropbox.

You don’t need an Office 365 license but you’ll require a free Microsoft account. Ditch PowerPoint for Better Online Tools, sure but it’s quite outdated. If you want to stand out with your presentations,:. — This is my personal favorite for creating beautiful presentations easily. The free account lets you create and present documents online.

To export, you’ll need to upgrade to a paid account. — This service is geared more towards startups but the visual tools offered by Prezi are beyond anything you can get with PowerPoint.

— Canva is an online image editor but it has an extensive library of presentation templates. Plus, Canva gives you all the important tools for creating a customized presentation. Embrace Markdown Here’s an idea purely out of left field. You’ve given up Windows and embraced the Mac. You must have started appreciating macOS’s simplicity by now.

If you want more of that for creating and editing plain text documents, you should try using Markdown. Tired of HTML and WYSIWYG editors? Then Markdown is the answer for you no matter who you are., like HTML but much simpler. When you use a Markdown app to write, there are no 25 menu options. All the formatting happens using shortcodes. So for example, to make a word italic, you wrap it around with asterisks.

You can create a complex formatted document without ever lifting your finger from the keyboard. Plus Markdown exports clean HTML and you can generate beautiful PDFs In 2016, not everyone needs a full-service word processing program, which is why software like Ulysses exists. If You Must, Stick With Microsoft Office 2016 Microsoft Office 2016 is here and it's time for you to make a decision. The productivity question is - should you upgrade? We give you the new features and the fresher reasons to help you. For Mac was a significant one. There’s UI and feature parity with the Windows version.

If none of the above alternatives work out for you (I would again suggest you give LibreOffice a good hard look), you might have to drop $229.99 for (or a $9.99 per month subscription). How do you use Microsoft Office documents on your Mac? What kind of productivity features you just can’t live without?

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