Microsoft Office Question
 

Is there a consensus out there on which is the best Microsoft Office Suite for basic home use?? Thanks so much in advance!! Cheers!!!

Depends on what u need...word excel PowerPoint outlook

Mainly use Word, Excel, possibly Power Point (kids' school projects maybe). I'm trying to avoid paying for the newest version, but still want to be up to date enough to the point that I can open most any other Word document that I would receive from any other Office Suite. You know that issue that arises when you can't open up a newer Word doc because you have an old version of Office? I hate that.

Look for office home and student 2010...it has everything you need.

Looks like it'll be around 119 unless you find a deal...just checked out newegg.com $119 or the same from Microsoft.com

Thanks!! That's kinda what I was leaning toward, but was gonna be swayed by either a thumbs up or thumbs down.

Sometimes they run a sale on weekends at bestbuy

Cool, I'll check around. Gonna be giving Bill Gates a little more money looks like.

Been running Libre Office for about a year now. Word documents and spreadsheets transfer pretty seamlessly from home to work (Real MS Office), but the transfer of presentations (power points) is a little more rough. When the kids have a presentation for school, they save it as a PDF file to avoid MS Office vomiting all over it. I simply do all work presentations on my work computer. It feels good not to be putting more money in Bill Gates pocket and everything transfers perfectly to the same Libre Office applications on my unix machines. (Linux Kubuntu).