Office 365

[boybi]

Should I subscribe to Office 365 for my office? It's P3,499.00 per year for 5 PCs.

The cheapest Office 2013, the Home & Student costs around 11K, good for 1 PC, but it's yours forever.

[jodski]

Sir,
sa business use hindi pwede gamitin ang home and student... Dapat at least professional edition.

if ever less than 50 units kuhanin mo na lang yung subscription para iwas hassle sa audit.

meron din naman na free alternatives like open office if ok sa iyo...

[xwangbu]

^LibreOffiice sir.
pwede din googledocs kung ok net connection mo.

[Retz]

Sir,
sa business use hindi pwede gamitin ang home and student... Dapat at least professional edition.

if ever less than 50 units kuhanin mo na lang yung subscription para iwas hassle sa audit.

meron din naman na free alternatives like open office if ok sa iyo...

mahirap din gamitin open office.... may compatibility issues at times.

[boybi]

I tried those free Office clones before, but there were some incompatibilities. Mahirap pag gumagawa ng report yung staff tapos mali mali ang lalabas na results.

[boybi]

Sir,
sa business use hindi pwede gamitin ang home and student... Dapat at least professional edition.

if ever less than 50 units kuhanin mo na lang yung subscription para iwas hassle sa audit.

meron din naman na free alternatives like open office if ok sa iyo...

Hindi naman lahat ng PC sa office installan ko ng Office. Kasya na yung 5 units na allowed ng Office 365.

[ghosthunter]

I tried those free Office clones before, but there were some incompatibilities. Mahirap pag gumagawa ng report yung staff tapos mali mali ang lalabas na results.

All our office computers are using OPENOFFICE and we do not have compatibility issues. The only problem was the initial move from MS Office to OpenOffice. After that, it was smooth sailing.

[1D4LV]

All our office computers are using OPENOFFICE and we do not have compatibility issues. The only problem was the initial move from MS Office to OpenOffice. After that, it was smooth sailing.

same here. birth pains.. been using it for a year already. wala namang compatibility problems from documents in MS Office.
boybi, ok na din yan..... go for it, kung hindi acceptable and openoffice.

[niky]

Only compatibility issues I ever had were with a .doc file written on WPS, a Chinese clone/development copy of an obsolete Microsoft product. But those same files actually cause a looping dictionary error MSOffice on our office iMacs... which necessitates some fast and furious key-tapping to close the dialogue box and kill MSOffice at the same time.

After getting used to OpenOffice, I don't even open Word, anymore.

[roninblade]

Should I subscribe to Office 365 for my office? It's P3,499.00 per year for 5 PCs.

The cheapest Office 2013, the Home & Student costs around 11K, good for 1 PC, but it's yours forever.

that's not a bad subscription: P700pa per PC costing you P58.3 per month for each computer.

I tried those free Office clones before, but there were some incompatibilities. Mahirap pag gumagawa ng report yung staff tapos mali mali ang lalabas na results.

Hindi naman lahat ng PC sa office installan ko ng Office. Kasya na yung 5 units na allowed ng Office 365.

but according to your comments, you're only using office apps in those 5 computers. so how can you have incompabilities?

if you make the leap to free software meron talaga incompatibilities at first until you can move all your documents to f/OSS standard files.

[ghosthunter]

if you make the leap to free software meron talaga incompatibilities at first until you can move all your documents to f/OSS standard files.

OPENOFFICE opens MS Office documents with no issues. No need to migrate formats. It will read both DOC and DOCX formats which is better than if you are using Microsoft's own older Office products which is unable to read DOCX format.

The only thing you might want to change in OpenOffice's default settings is the default save format, especially if you send files out to other people. Set it to save in DOC/XLS/PPT instead of the OpenOffice's own document formats.

[Retz]

ang problema din minsan or kadalasan sa open office, pag ni open mo sa e.g. microsoft excel ang open office excel file, mdyo sabog ang mga text doon.

[ghosthunter]

ang problema din minsan or kadalasan sa open office, pag ni open mo sa e.g. microsoft excel ang open office excel file, mdyo sabog ang mga text doon.

The same thing happens when you are sharing the same file between different versions of MS OFFICE.... so that issue is not really a problem of OPENOFFICE.

[Retz]

^

Sir gh, if different office versions afaik hindi na mag open ung file diba opening a higher version file from a lower version ms office. Pero never ko pa na encounter na sabog ung text. Anyway, observe ko ulit.

[ghosthunter]

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Sir gh, if different office versions afaik hindi na mag open ung file diba opening a higher version file from a lower version ms office. Pero never ko pa na encounter na sabog ung text. Anyway, observe ko ulit.

The answer is DEPENDS. Depends if your PCs users have agreed to save in a SINGLE WORD MS_WORD DOC FORMAT.

Example: DOC saved in Word97 format.

That makes sure that even for PC with MS WORD 2007 can create documents that can be opened by PCs with older MS WORD 97/XP. Usually the so-called format issues comes in when the document includes macros, special fonts, special paragraph layout, etc.

[Mguy]

I pay every month around P350.00 for my subscription to Office 2013, and is good for 5 computers. Currently only using 3 licenses but I plan to buy a Macbook in the future. Yes, the license covers all types of OS, even the Ipad.

[foresterx]

never really tried anything else but ms office, will try openoffice and see how it goes.

[ghosthunter]

I pay every month around P350.00 for my subscription to Office 2013, and is good for 5 computers. Currently only using 3 licenses but I plan to buy a Macbook in the future. Yes, the license covers all types of OS, even the Ipad.

We're using OPENOFFICE in ALL our office PCs for many years na. And it's FREE. Kinda hard to beat that deal. ;)

[Mguy]

I used OpenOffice before. But when my kids started to complain that when they do their homeworks, they cannot do it quickly because the school trained them to use Word and Powerpoint, I had to switch back.

I guess P350 a month for a software isn't that bad, specially now I see my kids use it to the max (and I use Excel as well since where I work uses Office as well). I had been using OpenOffice for 2 years and I like it because it is free. But after using Office 2013, its worth the money na rin. And its not much of a hassle to pay because I use my Paypal account to settle it.

[Retz]

^

It looks like a MS Office but there are some interface or functions that open office doesn't have.