Buying MS Office with laptop purchase

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marej

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#237977 27-Jun-2018 15:49

An MS office option comes up as an add-on when buying a Lenovo. $99 for word, excel, one note, outlook and publisher. Will not use onenote, outlook and publisher. Not complaining about the price but the three application I wont use - They will take up space and be subject to updates etc.

Can I get rid of them in isolation of word and excel?

ObidiahSlope

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#2044856 27-Jun-2018 16:05

I purchased a Lenovo desktop with MS Office bundle It came as an authorization key to down load and install over the internet. The initial step was an install configurator which had a custom install option allowing you to pick and choose applications

Caution: This was several years ago it may have changed

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#2044858 27-Jun-2018 16:11

I don't remember seeing the option to install only certain components during the software installation process for a long time..... it is do-able but a bit technical in that there is a lot of mucking around involved with XML configuration files that tell the installer which components to leave out. You don't save a massive amount of space as there are a lot of shared components.

The $99 is highly likely to be an annual subscription that lets you use the latest version and get all of the feature upgrades as they are released, not a purchase. I would expect it to be Office 365 Home or Office 365 Personal or something like that.

Purchasing Office 2016 Home & Student version which is a perpetual license to use as long as you like is typically around $250 and is harder to find.... you will likely have to go to a retail store for this.

If it's just for you and you won't be sharing many files, consider trying one of the open source alternatives like https://www.libreoffice.org/

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