Microsoft Word

[Jim Hawkins]

I see Microsoft are wanting 110 for a copy of Word 2013. I want to update my Word 2003 - but not at that price. Can you still get the versions between 2003 and 2013 ?

Jim Hawkins

[Adrian]

Not legit, no. Each version is withdrawn from retail when the new one comes out.

Have you looked at LibreOffice?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Definitely better. It reads some word documents better than old versions of word do, for sure

Version 4 is a lot better than 3 was.

[Cursitor Doom]

The beauty of Linux is you're not held to ransom by giant corporations. Tons of free applications you just download for nothing in LinuxWorld.

[Muddymike]

Try Open Office, it's free and will save documents in Word format.

Mike

[Adrian]

LibreOffice is OpenOffice. Or, rather, it was, before the Oracle and Sun merger took OpenOffice in some unpopular directions.

Oh, that's interesting - I'd missed that Oracle had handed OpenOffice over to Apache.

libreoffice-41-224280 gives an interesting overview. The conclusions comment on document conversion from Word - but, as somebody already mentioned, even converting between Word versions can be far flakier than going to either of this pair...

[Adrian]

LibreOffice and OpenOffice are both available for Windows and OSX, too...

[John Rumm]

Not from MS no. Best option would be a family pack of office 2010 from ebay.

The MS offering they would like you to go for is Office 365, which will cost you around £65/year as a rental deal. However you are allowed to install 5 seats for that and get some other freebies thrown in like 25 gig of cloud storage.

Note that all the Office 2013 products also require a MS account of some form to install them.

[dennis]

Buy office home and student, it includes word and is about £90.

Use one of the free offices.

[GB]

I still use 2003. Out of interest, why do you want to 'upgrade'?

[The Natural Philosopher]

libre office is better.

And its nothing to do with Oracle.

[The Natural Philosopher]

probably so he can read the files generated by other later copies of 'word'

[harryagain]

Yep, it's good, does doc and docx Almost identically laid out so easy to get the hang of if you're used to Word. A few less of the less used features 0f Word.

[GB]

My version of word can do that. Microsoft supply a free converter that integrates into the 2003 version. It is seamless.

[PeterC]

v4.2 is due in the next month or two, but wait for 4.2.x as that usually addresses the odd little problems found after release.

[polygonum]

Though Word 2013 is pretty nifty at converting PDFs into Word documents.

[Davidm]

"Find someone" who is a student, or teacher and buy Office 365 from somewhere like here for £53:

[misterroy]

I have the new version of Word at work.Do not go near it. The menus are not in a standard format, you will no longer know where anything is. My old 20

03 documents are a bit garbled by the new Word. Download one of the free ones, or stay with what you have got.

[Capitol]

Or alternatively try your local car boot sale. I'm still running word

97, it is better for drawings than later versions IMO.

[Jim Hawkins]

Only because other people I exchange documents with tend to use later versions that my 2003 one can't read.

Jim Hawkins