| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 105079 | 2009-11-18 05:00:00 | Purchase Office 2003 | Jonnie de Boer (10880) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 831296 | 2009-11-18 09:56:00 | Or thinkfree.com - pretty much like MS word. Compatible and all. I think Sweep, he was given the answer. It's discontinued, so the only way to get it would be through trade or torrent. LOL |
Chris09 (15218) | ||
| 831297 | 2009-11-18 10:01:00 | heres one (www.trademe.co.nz) | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 831298 | 2009-11-18 11:18:00 | The original poster wanted Office 2003 so why suggest alternatives? He also didn't want Office 2007, which is why I suggested OpenOffice. If he loved Office so much, you'd think he'd like the idea of Office 2007... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 831299 | 2009-11-18 11:33:00 | He also didn't want Office 2007, which is why I suggested OpenOffice. If he loved Office so much, you'd think he'd like the idea of Office 2007... Well you might think he would want 2007 but that was obviously not the case for whatever reason. He may want compatibility without having to [save as] in an older format or there may be other reasons which we are not privy to. He may have wanted a version of Office which includes Outlook which, of course, Open Office does not include an equivalent thereof. I have no idea WHY he wanted 2003 but that is what was asked for so hence my rant. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 831300 | 2009-11-18 12:04:00 | I have no idea WHY he wanted 2003 but that is what was asked for so hence my rant. Fair enough, but as you quite rightly pointed out, we do not know why he wanted Office 2003. As such OpenOffice or other alternatives might be perfectly suitable. Anyway, why not suggest alternatives? There is no reason not to, unless he explicitly stated he needed an Office-specific feature, which he didn't. If nobody had any suggestions we'd probably all still be using DOS, or worse. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 831301 | 2009-11-18 16:49:00 | heres one (www.trademe.co.nz) Do you get the impression from this that they are in fact selling the remaining 2 licenses - I thought that all 3 licenses had to be use in the same household ? |
TeejayR (4271) | ||
| 831302 | 2009-11-18 20:17:00 | Woah! Just asking because some people do not like the 07 interface/ribbon and like it how it used to be :) I am aware of OpenOffice, as well as that add-on to modify the 07 robbin (even though its still not like the original interface) Just mainly checking if 03 was still available to purchase other than via an Open license from MS Cheers for all your replies tho guys, looks like I will be getting through Trademe :) |
Jonnie de Boer (10880) | ||
| 831303 | 2009-11-18 20:19:00 | ....I have no idea WHY he wanted 2003 but that is what was asked for so hence my rant. So I guess if you can have a rant then so can I! ;) As you noted, you had no idea why he wanted Office 2003 as opposed to 2007. A couple of reasons spring to mind 1) The office suite he has can't open a file he has received... Well he is better to get OOo because OOo handles far more file types than MS Office of any version 2) He wants 03 because he figures it will not be as exorbitantly priced as 07... well OOo has that beat all hollow, it is after all free. 3) He wanted 2003 because he had heard lots of MS marketing hype but he didn't know that OOo existed..... Well a suggestion that there is an alternative is fair enough. It should also be pointed out that not all versions of MSO 2003 have Outlook and neither is outlook exclusive to 03, but in any case if he wanted outlook surely he would have asked for Outlook and besides which, even if he did, an OOo/Thunderbird/lightning combo would be a reasonable alternative suggestion. It can't be assumed that everyone knows about OOo as an alternative and in fact it is probably safer to assume the opposite so it would seem to me to be irresponsible NOT to provide someone with that information. The same as others have done suggesting Ability Office and Think free. To that list I would add IBM's Symphony Suite which is a free download as well and there is also Softmaker Office 2008, not free but cheaper than MSO and you can download the previous version for free, legally. |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 831304 | 2009-11-18 20:54:00 | Woah! Just asking because some people do not like the 07 interface/ribbon and like it how it used to be :) Me too... one of the reasons I wanted to get something else |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 831305 | 2009-11-18 22:43:00 | Woah! Just asking because some people do not like the 07 interface/ribbon and like it how it used to be :) Well people can have the best of both worlds, the features of office 2007, and menus of 2003, there are plugins that make Office 2007 look and work like Office 2003 - two come to mind, ones free, but only does Excel, Word, and Powerpoint, and the other paid one will do Word, Excel, Access, Outlook and PowerPoint 2007. Heres what I mean - The free and paid one, both add a new Menu Button As shown Here (www.imagef1.net.nz) after clicking it Office 2003 menus (www.imagef1.net.nz). The plugins are Ubitmenu (www.ubit.ch) - Free and Addintools (http://www.addintools.com/) - Paid. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1 2 3 | |||||