The subscription is a great deal for multiple users or multiple PCs. The $140 one-time purchase limits you to one device and four of the seven apps. For PCs, a $70 one-user annual subscription lets you use all seven Office apps on multiple PCs and tablets by signing in and out. (You can buy all seven Office apps for a one-time fee of $400, but the subscription is cheaper.)
The subscription also gives you three apps you don’t get with the $140 one-time purchase: Outlook, Access and Publisher. Most Windows tablets, including the Surface Pro, require a one-time purchase or subscription, even for basic features.
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For iOS and Android mobile devices, you get extra features you can’t get any other way. You’re guaranteed the latest version of Office, which comes out every three years, but the one-time fee is still cheaper. Comparatively, an Office 365 subscription costs $70 a year for one user, so by year three the subscription is costing you more. For $140, you get Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Note: If you have a Windows tablet, you must pay for Office unless you’re running a lightweight operating system called RT.Ĭan’t live with just a smartphone or tablet? You can buy Office for personal computers and Windows tablets the traditional way, by paying for the software just once. Microsoft says the Android apps will catch up, as well as the version for Windows phones.
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(Some power users might need these, but I don’t.) There are fewer features available for Android phones and tablets, whether free or for pay. On Apple devices, a subscription would unlock about two dozen features, such as inserting section breaks and tracking changes between drafts. You do have to sign in with a Microsoft account, but you can create one for free. But the apps include most of what I use on PCs. There are also missing features, such as green underlines of potential grammatical mistakes. I’m still not totally used to the mobile apps, especially for cutting and pasting text in Word and inserting cells in Excel spreadsheets. I’ve edited documents on an iPhone and am pleased it has the same features that are available on the iPad, though with some menu changes to account for the smaller screen. I’m writing this review on Word using an iPad and Android tablets from Samsung and Google - the latter with a wireless keyboard. (Access for databases and Publisher for desktop publishing aren’t available yet.) Microsoft offers Word for text documents, Excel for spreadsheets, PowerPoint for presentations, Outlook for email and OneNote for organization - all for free. Microsoft’s newly released Office apps for iPhones, iPads and Android tablets are quite good.
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