Office 365 1 year versus lifetime

bootjangler said:

Thanks.

I'm going to run with either WPS or Libre Office on a new PC, rather than rushing to O 365, because they appear to be able to provide me with running with my existing spreadsheets, although I suspect a lot of opening and "saving as" will have to be done manually.

If anyone still has any answers to the original Office 365 questions though, feel free, because if the other software turns out to be too problematic, I might have to go with Office after all later.

I have a subscription to Microsoft Office ProPlus because I have multiple computers. The subscription is for five installations and costs $150 per year, which averages out to $30 per computer. A subscription to Office Home and Student is for five installations and costs $99 per year, which averages out to $20 per computer. Each of these five installations will give you 1 TB of storage space on OneDrive. It's worth the money if you have five computers and need Office on all of them.

A one computer subscription costs $69.95 per year, and for my money isn't feasible, since a stand alone version costs $149 and can be used multiple years; the more years you use it, the less it costs per year.

I'm all for saving as much as I can; however, I found Libre Office to have a pretty steep learning curve (probably because I didn't have the time to learn it when trying it out).

I'm still confused about Office 365. My experience has always been a disk load. Now it appears the softwate is cloud-based. Presumably, you store your files locally though. But I wonder if being cloud based means you cannot use it offline.

Whether you have a subscription or a standalone version of Office, you can use it offline. Microsoft would be shooting themselves in the foot if they didn't allow Office to be used when your computer is offline.

Edit: Here's the link to Office: Microsoft Office | Productivity Tools for Home Office