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Office 2007

October 10th is when they planing to end support.

I'm using Office 2007 and not planning on upgrading. I learned if anyone using Outlook 2007 won't be able to connect with Office 365 mailboxes. I don't use Outlook.
 
Sportster, I'm still using Office 2000 on a secondary drive and it works fine. No problemo really, it's missing a dll file or two and it can't be updated, but I can still finds dll's online at times for the old workhorse. If things become corrupted, which hasn't happened so far, I'll re-install.
 
The Penguin said:
I was thinking the same thing. Now if a person still using XP or older that connected to the internet, then I would be more concerned.
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True. While I still use XP with a plethora of very old but very reliable applications on my legacy system, the one thing I don't do is connect it to the Internet. Once I installed the OS and entirely upgraded to SP3, that's it. I keep it offline permanently.
 
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i hate software upgrades, grrrrr

if you have to share docs with other people, it's best to have the latest version,
things are usually backwards compatible, not forward compatible

i.e. people using the newer version will be able to use you docs, but people using the older system may have problems using the docs from newer versions

also the newer version introduces new opportunities, by retaining the older version you effectively cap your expertise to its current level and end up behind others

i used to be really good at excellent, now i'm beh
 
Sportster said:
My relationship with technology isn't good, as I'm always behind. Shoot, I'm still using a flip-phone and that's an upgrade from what I did have.

With that said, I just learned that Office 2007 is being retired at the end of 2017 and will no longer be supported by Microsoft. However, I can purchase the new version, called 365 or something like that, for the nominal price of $149; the option to rent it monthly is also available. How much money does Bill Gates need?

Anyway, has anyone else heard anything about this? If you use Office 2007, will you upgrade or switch to another system?
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That's alarming to me. I use Office 2007. I guess it means they will no longer update it? I hope I don't have to get used to something new!
 
Grandmother B said:
That's alarming to me. I use Office 2007. I guess it means they will no longer update it? I hope I don't have to get used to something new!
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As long you don't fit in this category: "Also as of October 31, 2017, Outlook 2007 will be unable to connect to Office 365 mailboxes and this means that clients who are using Office 365 will be unable to use the email feature." as noted at Office 2007 to breathe its last this October as Microsoft ends support

However, basic Word, Excel, PowerPoint files from newer versions of Office should still open in Office 2007. The only time you run into an issue if someone used a new feature of a later version of Office that no compatible for Office 2007. It may be very unlikely you would encounter this issues with someone but it could happen.
 
The Penguin said:
If your talking about this as shown in the below video, I don't think an average user would want to create an Word document that way.
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An average user can use a "model". Few people writes the document from zero as it's done in this video.
Using a model, you just need to fill in the text.

And, its not a word document (.doc), the output is a .pdf file.

Ok, lets ignore my suggestion.
 
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The Penguin said:
As long you don't fit in this category: "Also as of October 31, 2017, Outlook 2007 will be unable to connect to Office 365 mailboxes and this means that clients who are using Office 365 will be unable to use the email feature." as noted at Office 2007 to breathe its last this October as Microsoft ends support

However, basic Word, Excel, PowerPoint files from newer versions of Office should still open in Office 2007. The only time you run into an issue if someone used a new feature of a later version of Office that no compatible for Office 2007. It may be very unlikely you would encounter this issues with someone but it could happen.
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Thank you! That's a relief! I use Yahoo email.
 
Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated.
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Yeah anyway, I finally upgraded from 2007 to 2016 last week, and yeah I have to pay $10/month (CAD) but the number of bugs that have been fixed (that I notice) and the performance (that I notice) is worth it for me.

Plus, you can install it on up to 5 machines or something.
 
S-Head said:
Yeah anyway, I finally upgraded from 2007 to 2016 last week, and yeah I have to pay $10/month (CAD) but the number of bugs that have been fixed (that I notice) and the performance (that I notice) is worth it for me.

Plus, you can install it on up to 5 machines or something.
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It would be cheaper to buy office 2013 for around $150 CAD that you can own. If you think about it after two years, you spent $240. Owning Office 2013, you would saved your self $70 after two year.
 
The Penguin said:
It would be cheaper to buy office 2013 for around $150 CAD that you can own. If you think about it after two years, you spent $240. Owning Office 2013, you would saved your self $70 after two year.
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Yes, however 2013 may be good for you, or 2016.

For me, I have 3 machines, so 2016 wins easily. With 2013 I would have to buy 3 licenses separately. With 2016 I just install it on all 3.

So in other words, normal people will benefit from buying 2013, but the geeks won't. :p
 
S-Head said:
Yes, however 2013 may be good for you, or 2016.

For me, I have 3 machines, so 2016 wins easily. With 2013 I would have to buy 3 licenses separately. With 2016 I just install it on all 3.

So in other words, normal people will benefit from buying 2013, but the geeks won't. :p
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Right. I missed the point able to install it on 5 machines. So in your case it would make more sense paying $10/month.
 
Oddly enough another conclusion I made not too long ago was to realize that in my existing capacity I don't honestly require applications like Microsoft Office any more.

There are plenty of other apps to accomplish basic word processing. And while Power Point was nice, I haven't had any need for business presentations of any kind for decades, let alone spread sheets from Excel.

Something for some of us to ponder, anyways. Whether or not we truly need such software.
 
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