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Question from Kelly: I’ve always used Google Docs for my writing but I recently bought Microsoft Office because that’s what I’ll be using at my next job.
I’ve been practicing with Word and it seems to be ok, but sometimes it will place a random horizontal line in the document when I type certain characters.
How can I make it stop doing that? [Read more…]
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Question from Claude: I was looking at the various options for buying Microsoft Office on Amazon the other day and I saw they’re selling Microsoft Office that runs on Macs.
That really surprised me since Microsoft and Apple are direct competitors of each other.
Why do they make a Mac version of Office when that obviously encourages people who would buy a Windows computer to run MS Office on to buy a Mac instead?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Danita.: I bought a used laptop from a friend a while back and it had Microsoft Office on it.
When I asked him if he had the installation disk he said he had downloaded it from a site that gives away programs for free.
The hard drive in the laptop stopped working a few days ago and I had to have it replaced.
Can you give me the link to the page where I can download MS Office for free? [Read more…]
Question from Leslie: It seems like Microsoft is really pushing customers to sign up for a subscription to Office 365 instead of buying a copy of Office 2019.
Do you think they’re planning to stop selling desktop versions of MS Office and force everyone to start using Office 365 instead?
The reason I’m asking is I just bought a new PC and I’m trying to decide whether to buy Office 2019 or sign up for Office 365.
I don’t want to buy Office 2019 if they’re just going to abandon it like they do older versions of Windows.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
According to a new blog post from Microsoft the upcoming release of MS Office 2019 won’t be available for computers running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.
In a nutshell, if you want to use Office 2019 and your computer isn’t running Windows 10 you’ll either have to upgrade your PC to Windows 10 or buy a new computer that already has it pre-installed.
You can read the details for yourself at the link in the first paragraph, but here’s the relevant info: [Read more…]