That explains some Office bundles, especially ‘Professional Plus’ which is only available to volume license customers, not retail. It seems more likely this is an under-the-table deal, perhaps by staff in the organizations? Sometimes companies buy more licenses/keys than they need and you’re buying one of the extras.īut are these excess licenses being sold by the original purchaser? It’s hard to understand why a company would sell off licenses for a pittance, assuming they are allowed to resell them at all. The best we can tell is that you’re buying a legitimate product key sold by Microsoft to some large organization. Somehow the seller is getting their licenses very cheaply to sell for such low prices and still make money. After all, that’s way under either the wholesale or high-volume license cost. If someone is selling $400 software for $60 or less, there’s something strange happening. It’s accepted by Microsoft as legitimate (due to activation) but the path that the product key reaches you might not be entirely ‘kosher’. ![]() A cheap price and you get the software activated, albeit by some less common method. Let’s assume we’re talking about a deal like what we’ve described above. There’s no clear answer to that question because the sourcing isn’t known. That simple web page lets you type in the product key or Installation ID and, hopefully, get back an activation code you can put into Office. Use a smartphone because Microsoft will offer to send a text link to a special web page. Now it’s easier calling for phone activation. You had to type into your phone a 63 digit long Installation ID then write down a long Confirmation ID. This has been available since the start of Office software activation but is now much easier. You call a special Microsoft number to get an activation code. There are many other alternatives, but these are some of the best.Just one example of the extra steps that might be needed for Office software activation.Ī common requirement is telephone activation. Unlike Microsoft’s Office web apps, you can even access Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides offline in Google Chrome. It stores your files in Google Drive, Google’s online file storage service. Google Docs is a capable collection of web-based office software.Windows PC users can access a web-based version of iWork through the iCloud website, too. This is Apple’s competitor to Microsoft Office, and it used to be paid software before Apple made it free. ![]() Apple iWork is a free collection of office applications for Mac, iPhone, and iPad users.You can even make LibreOffice look like Microsoft Office. While OpenOffice is still around, LibreOffice has more developers and is now the more popular project. It’s similar to the desktop versions of Microsoft Office, and it can even work with and create Office documents in common file types like DOCX documents, XLSX spreadsheets, and PPTX presentations. LibreOffice is a free and open-source office application for Windows, Mac, Linux, and other operating systems.There are completely free office suites that sport good compatibility with Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentation files. ![]() If you’re looking for something else, consider choosing a different office application.
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