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Cheapest Office Package for Students K - 12

HorusHorus Los AngelesRegistered User regular
edited February 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
My cousin is in middle school and needs office. She wants Office Pro:Word, Excel, Accounting, Powerpoint, Outlook, publisher. Basically she wants Office 2007 Professional for school urgently. I would recommend open source but they did not like open office UI and lack of features she needs for school.

This is the only site I found with academic software but is this legal?
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Its too good to be true

Thanks

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  • ApexMirageApexMirage Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Can a middle school even demand that? If they are I'd assume they'd have somekind of discount available for students? Couldn't she do the work at school?

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  • RaereRaere Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I think JourneyEd is only for college students. I got my copy from there, and I had to scan in a student ID and my class schedule to prove that I was going to college.

    I've never heard of a middle school forcing kids to buy Office. Is it a private school or something? Your local library probably has Office she can use. I don't see how a middle schooler would need Outlook. The Student Edition has Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, which should be more than enough.

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  • HorusHorus Los AngelesRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    its a public school and they require her to do projects in power point, publisher, outlook for email (more features it will work with teacher like exchange) and other stuff. Yeah the mom is mad the school does not offer these programs to the students. The library would work if it wasn't for 2007 Office new file extension her teacher send her files in, .docx.

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  • kaliyamakaliyama Left to find less-moderated fora Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    There's a free download that lets earlier versions of office work with docx files. Otherwise there's a student/teacher edition I bought from best buy one year...I didn't see cheaper prices on campus.

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  • zushibazushiba Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Openoffice is MScompatible, free, open source and mature.

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  • SakebombSakebomb Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    zushiba wrote: »
    Openoffice is MScompatible, free, open source and mature.


    I assume youre talking about needing office on your home computer so she can do her homework?

    Im pretty sure if you make a presentation using OpenOffice Impress and save it to a thumb drive, you can open it with Microsoft PowerPoint.

    Right?

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  • ImprovoloneImprovolone Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    But Open Office has issues with that damned .docx format.

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  • zushibazushiba Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Eh well apparently she didn't like the interface according too the OP. Microsoft offers some good educational discounts that's worth looking into as well.

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  • DmanDman Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    She could try Google Docs

    I'm not convinced a k-12 student needs to be shelling out cash for Microsoft Office.

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  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    there is office ultimate steal but it doesn't have publisher i don't think

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    The school/division should offer Office 2k7 academic licenses itself, especially if they require the students to own it.

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  • ImprovoloneImprovolone Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I too doubt the school requires it so much as the students need to make power point presentations, write word documents, and have an e-mail client.

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  • zushibazushiba Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Well if she doesn't like OpenOffice which can do all those things then she's left with the option of buying some version of office.

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  • ImprovoloneImprovolone Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    In the past I've had issues of a power point from Open Office having its format totally changed when opened in MS Power Point. So unless I did something wrong or a new version has changed it, theres a good reason to not use it.
    Really though the entire school should be using something like Open Office.

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  • RUNN1NGMANRUNN1NGMAN Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Are you sure she needs Outlook and Publisher? I seems, well, strange for a middle school to require that students have those two programs.

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    mts wrote: »
    there is office ultimate steal but it doesn't have publisher i don't think

    It does, it's the Ultimate Edition, so basically it has everthing. (Accounting is part of it too)

    As long as she can get hold of an educational e-mail address, (.edu) then she can buy it through theultimatesteal.com very recommended as office is a great package.

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  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    duh i meant accounting. actually when i read it, publisher seemed familiar but not

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Improvolone wrote: »
    But Open Office has issues with that damned .docx format.


    Version 3 has native support for the 'x' file formats (.docx, .xlsx, and so forth)

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  • vonPoonBurGervonPoonBurGer Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Improvolone wrote: »
    But Open Office has issues with that damned .docx format.
    Might be fixed by using the OpenXML/ODF translator add-in for OpenOffice.

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  • Chake99Chake99 Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Another vote for OpenOffice. Although you'll occasionally run into OO impress --> MS powerpoint conversion issues and the like if you are aware of the fact it can happen and give yourself 10 minutes with school computers and take the time to check for layout issues (which are pretty godamn rare) you saved significant money.

    This is assuming she's computer literate though... and judging from the fact she thinks she needs outlook I'm not sure if that's the case.

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    mcdermott wrote: »
    SeñorAmor wrote: »
    Improvolone wrote: »
    But Open Office has issues with that damned .docx format.


    Version 3 has native support for the 'x' file formats (.docx, .xlsx, and so forth)

    I'm sure it does.

    But I've had formatting rape between different versions of Microsoft Office. I'm not about to trust Open Office not to have the same issues, native support for the 'x' formats or no.

    I'm not bashing Open Office, this is just an issue you'll run into almost any time you are switching data files between two different applications, even outside of office applications.

    And while I have no doubt you'll claim that the newest version of Open Office has none of these problems, I'm not going to trust the guy with the Ubuntu avatar to be impartial. :P

    Since it's free, how about you download it and try it before getting all defensive? :)

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  • OrestesOrestes Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I think it might actually be illegal to REQUIRE this software, but not make any discounts or offer licenses to it.

    I mean, my University offers discounts to it, but still says "MICROSOFT OFFICE IS NOT REQUIRED, YOU MAY USE SUBSTITUES" then they give out a list of substitutes with pro's and con's with their prices (I would post it here, but I lost the list :( ).

    And yes, Open Office has weird file issues. It works fine for just regular documents, but as soon as you try to fomate something, it becomes odd.

    I made a file for one of my classes that was basically all about the formatting. Looking amazing on Open Office, but I almost failed because when they opened it in Word it was all jubbled up.

    Give Open Office a try, but becareful about it.

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