Short version: New MBP, need word/ppt, which product?


Picking up a new laptop and haven't bought one in 7 years or so. My other MBP just keeps going!

Anyways, a quick look tells me there are subscription based products but that sounds stupid.

I just want to buy the Office suite...Word/Excel primarily...and not pay for a monthly subscription.

Oh great SF, please guide me!

What does the subscription do anyways? Lock me out of my programs if I don't pay? That sounds like ransomware...

I am running office 2016 for mac.
I'm not buying into the annual subscription models and I wanted the full functionality of word, excel, and PP as I sometimes do work stuff on my laptop.

I'm using the basic apps from Apple-notes, numbers, and whatever. Ten bucks for the package when I bought it. Of course, I don't use it for work anymore. It all runs great on an Air with 8 gigs of ARAM and a small drive.

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I am running office 2016 for mac.

I'm using the same. Been solid for two years plus.

Office 365 for Mac is excellent. I see new features often before Windows releases.

Is this thread from 1999?

Macs ship with an office suite created by Apple. They offer 99% compatibility with MS Office.

If you must have MS products, Office 365 is the current offering -- it's cloud-based, so you don't have to download anything.

That said, I've been trying to get the PowerPoint version of it to show a presentation I made in MS PowerPoint, without success. Fortunately, Apple's own Preview software is a mega-tool and will be what I use tomorrow to give my presentation.

Learn to live with an alternative. OpenOffice/Libreoffice/Neooffice.

It’s time for MS to loose the productivity suite monopoly. Now that they want to deprecate VBA, the last attraction (for me) is going away. I’m not going to learn C#, .NET, or whatever the hell language they want for me to write Excel macros.

There is another thread talking about the Apple Catalina operating system not supporting 32 bit software, only 64 bit. Office 2016 is 32 bit. I have switched to Open Office (64 bit) and like it just fine. I am only using the spreadsheet thus far, and I don't do highly complicated operations on it.

I still have not switched to Catalina on my MB Air, just in case I didn't like Open Office.

Good info on the other thread.

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...270093264#7270093264

office 2016 for mac is 64 byte

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If you must have MS products, Office 365 is the current offering -- it's cloud-based, so you don't have to download anything.

Good advice, for those of us who don't want to have to relearn another application but tweaks to working with one we've used for 20 years.

From word and excel to pages and numbers is an easy transition. I did it a long time ago, but I seem to remember even the shortcut keys being the same.

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
office 2016 for mac is 64 byte

Thanks for correcting my brain fart, I have Office 2011!! My bad.

I use MS OFFICE for Mac 2011 v14.0
Highly reccomend.

^^^^^^^^

He won't be able to use 2011 in a brand new machine, it is only 32 bit and he needs a 64 bit suite.

Thanks for the help, guys.

New machine is on the way and I'll get the software purchased soon too.

I’m a long-time Mac guy. Up to now I’ve exclusively used the office apps that come with the machine. A few months ago I bought a new MacBook Air to replace my old one. The Numbers (spreadsheet) app on the new one is poorer than the old one. It’s clunkier, and frequently sufferers data corruption. That happened again last night – I’ll have to load an older instance of that Numbers file from my Time Machine backup. Things at Apple have gone downhill under Tim Cook’s management.

Tired of it, so I’m going to get the free open source LibreOffice suite.

I had the full version of MS Office but it was 32 bit and I lost it with the last update. I now use Mac's version of Word and Excel which suits me just fine. I refuse to pay for the MS Office on line version, it just rubs me the wrong way.