Microsoft Word for Mac. Anywhere free?

[Harpham]

Can you get a legitimate copy of "Microsoft Word for Mac" for free somewhere?

Im not really getting on with Pages and all the computers and everything has to be in Word format at Uni. Dont fancy forking out about £100 for the Office software tbh.

Any help would be great, thanks!

 

[Revels]

Try OpenOffice.

 

[Harpham]

Try OpenOffice.

Has that got the referencing features on it and all the usual features of Word?

I thought that it was just a very restricted/basic version of Word, so it may not have features that I could do with.

 

[Adam.]

Try this : http://www.software4students.co.uk/Microsoft_Office_for_Mac_2011-details.aspx?gclid=CNm5l9qfo6UCFQX92AodhQiNIg

Failing that 'free' copies are just as easy to obtain.

 

[MrTurner]

Have a try of this:
https://www.microsofthup.com/hupuk/faq.aspx

We use MS Office at work, so as an employee I got a copy on my macbook for £9. If you know anyone who has a volume license with MS, they should be able to sort you out.. I was also able to claim back the £9 on expenses!!

 

[eugegall]

I have two copies left if you want to paypal me some $$$$

EDIT- Its the MS Office 2011

 

[Harpham]

Try this : http://www.software4students.co.uk/Microsoft_Office_for_Mac_2011-details.aspx?gclid=CNm5l9qfo6UCFQX92AodhQiNIg

Failing that 'free' copies are just as easy to obtain.

Thanks for that... That price seems more affordable to me!

And regarding "free" copies.. Im a bit wary with downloading software, as ive ended up with a shed load of viruses on my old laptop once! And I always look at the proper way of doing things before this option

I have two copies left if you want to paypal me some $$$$

EDIT- Its the MS Office 2011

How much we talking matey? Which version is it (i.e. student, home etc)?

 

[Harpham]

DP

 

[jenic]

I have office 08 for mac, cough cough, if you know what I mean. But for the sake of £30 you might aswell go legit and buy 2011.

 

[eugegall]

Thanks for that... That price seems more affordable to me!

And regarding "free" copies.. Im a bit wary with downloading software, as ive ended up with a shed load of viruses on my old laptop once! And I always look at the proper way of doing things before this option



How much we talking matey? Which version is it (i.e. student, home etc)?

The student and home versions are all in 1 this time

 

[Adam.]

2011 is win.

 

[The Fatty]

as you are in education, I think you can get it for free via DreamSpark (Microsoft's academic site) provided your academic institute is in the program.

 

[jenic]

as you are in education, I think you can get it for free via DreamSpark (Microsoft's academic site) provided your academic institute is in the program.

This is an old post, but anyway, nope you can't

You get limited access to some stuff, but not much unless you're department is signed up to premium which is usually just the Engineering and Computing departments as far as I can tell. Even premium doesn't offer office for free, just a selections of OS and things like one note.

 

[Gouldy]

I've been looking for this for my Air, I don't know where I can get it from though legitimately, preferably a download.

Any ideas?

 

[Adam.]

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msuk/en_GB/list/ThemeID.30273200/categoryID.59701200

 

[@Spoonie]

Just use the online versions http://www.microsoft.com/mac/webapps

 

[Gouldy]

I wasn't expecting it to be £100

 

[@Spoonie]

I wasn't expecting it to be £100

Just out of interest, how much would you expect it to be? I ask because I hear this lots, whereas people will pay £40+ for an Xbox game they think a software suite like office is expensive.

 

[Gouldy]

I was expecting it to be <£50

 

[The Fatty]

This is an old post, but anyway, nope you can't

You get limited access to some stuff, but not much unless you're department is signed up to premium which is usually just the Engineering and Computing departments as far as I can tell. Even premium doesn't offer office for free, just a selections of OS and things like one note.

don't know how I managed to pull this thread up from the past :s it came up in my 'whats new' search!

 

[The Fatty]

I've been looking for this for my Air, I don't know where I can get it from though legitimately, preferably a download.

Any ideas?

Are you in education? if so, its £69 from here http://www.microsoft.com/uk/mac/office-university

 

[Gouldy]

Unfortunately not, no.

 

[@Spoonie]

What's wrong with the online version?

 

[Adam.]

don't know how I managed to pull this thread up from the past :s it came up in my 'whats new' search!

Spambot had posted this morning but his post appears to have been removed.

 

[Gouldy]

What's wrong with the online version?

I couldn't figure it out.

 

[@Spoonie]

I couldn't figure it out.

 

[Gouldy]

I need the other 4 steps

 

[@Spoonie]

They are on the channel. You will also see them on the right hand side.

 

[Gouldy]

Thanks. I'll have a look when I'm on my mac instead of my phone.

 

[jenic]

If you just want a basic word processor google docs is pretty good.

 

[Gouldy]

Where can I get that from?

Is that another online word document program?

 

[jenic]

Google it!

When you don't get something, google it!

 

[Gouldy]

That took a couple of minutes to set up, thanks for the heads up.

A basic word program is just what I was looking for, I've set up and installed google drive too.

 

[jenic]

Google drive is excellent, I use it for all my work now.