Need Microsoft Office 2007 because of Vista compatibility

[pd123]

I own Office 03 but it won't run properly on my new computer running Vista. Where can I get a good, legal, deal for Office 2007?

[pd123]

I think http://www.openoffice.org/ may be an option, it's free. Has anyone here used it and recommend it?

[ShawnLee]

Are you a student? The best deal out there for US students is www.theultimatesteal.com (http://www.theultimatesteal.com) and in Canada it's www.theultimatesteal.ca (http://www.theultimatesteal.ca).

[mechmike0034]

Hey, pd...

OpenOffice is the bomb!

Oxygen Office is OpenOffice on steroids (http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/oxygen-office-professional/) - it has many great templates and extras.

I put a tutorial on my blog (http://newsandtips.carputers.net/2007/01/28/configuring-the-openofficeorg-suite-for-use-in-a-microsoft-office-world/) on how to set OpenOffice/Oxygen Office Professional/StarOffice to automatically save in Microsoft Office-compatible formats...

You could also get StarOffice for free (http://newsandtips.carputers.net/2007/08/13/google-pack-adds-staroffice/) via the Google Pack (http://pack.google.com/).

Another free compatible office suite is the new IBM Lotus Symphony (http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa). Be aware that this is still in Beta release...

And, like ShawnLee said - the MS Ultimate Steal is a pretty good deal if you are or know a student.

[pd123]

Thank you for the two good options. I'm not a student, but I have 2 kids, one in 6th the other in 9th grade. Still it seems they don't qualify, a student card is needed and an email address ending with .edu and their email address in school ends in .org. Is there any way around those qualifications?

[gear02]

Thank you for the two good options. I'm not a student, but I have 2 kids, one in 6th the other in 9th grade. Still it seems they don't qualify, a student card is needed and an email address ending with .edu and their email address in school ends in .org. Is there any way around those qualifications?

I'll get you a copy of office home and student for $30 plus tax and shipping = ~$40. PM me. I won't do this for everyone, but pd has been here a while.

[Jeffbx]

OK, for that amout you should upgrade anyway - BUT let's go back to the original post for a minute. There's no reason that Office 2003 wouldn't work under Vista - was it giving an error during install or something?

[pd123]

Jeffbx, it worked fine for nearly everything, where it failed was to open emailed documents properly. My daughter emails her documents from school, that is the only thing that fails and that is important. I tried saving those documents to the desktop, then opening, still didn't work. The text opens but graphs are gibberish. I have a new Gateway running Vista with full support, they are the ones that said it was a Vista incompatibility, it never occurred to me. Vista created a few other problems for me, my Slingmedia box clashes with the Ooma VOIP and all that worked fine in XP. Slingmedia confirmed my problem and has no solution.

[Jeffbx]

I have a feeling that Gateway was just trying to get you off the phone - there is full compatibility between Office & the MS OS's (whatever versions), so I suspect your problem lies elsewhere.

[Paymaster]

Have you daughter put the document on a USB key and bring it home, then see if you can open it. If that works, then the file is likely getting corrupted by the email system somehow.