MS Office Small Business

[marty]

I'm lookng for an upgrade to my Office 2007 Home and Student package - I really need the Small Business upgrade to get Publisher and Outlook.

Does anyone have a copy they'd be prepared to sell/exchange for beer? I actually only need the product key to activate it on my laptop...

Chur

[Big Dave]

Aim higher! 'Publisher' is one of the great misnomers of all time.
It should be called 'Make my documents hard to get published'. :-P

[slofox]

Aim higher! 'Publisher' is one of the great misnomers of all time.
It should be called 'Make my documents hard to get published'. :-P

+1. I stopped using Publisher eons ago - I can do all I need within Word...

[Big Dave]

+1. I stopped using Publisher eons ago - I can do all I need within Word...

You realise this is just a gee up?

[Big Dave]

Does Publisher save as .pdf now?

The main issue used to be getting a file that a print shop could deal with. Back when it was all postscript anyways.

[Winston001]

According to my wife (who uses such things) InDesign is the software of choice. It's what the publishing types use.

[SMOKEU]

Have a look at OpenOffice and see if it will do what you want it to.
Otherwise start hunting for a torrent. Good luck.

[marty]

thanks for all that great advice

[YellowDog]

I'm lookng for an upgrade to my Office 2007 Home and Student package - I really need the Small Business upgrade to get Publisher and Outlook.

Does anyone have a copy they'd be prepared to sell/exchange for beer? I actually only need the product key to activate it on my laptop...

Chur

Publisher's a waste of time however Outlook is worth getting. Check out your mobile phone bundle to see if it has Outlook included. If your doesn't maybe one of your friends has it laying around.

[p.dath]

Does Publisher save as .pdf now?

The main issue used to be getting a file that a print shop could deal with. Back when it was all postscript anyways.

All Office 2007 and 2010 applications can save as PDF now.

Have a look at OpenOffice and see if it will do what you want it to.
Otherwise start hunting for a torrent. Good luck.

I tried using OpenOffice about 12 months ago. It appears fairly functional but I found it's interface frustrating - mostly because I know how to do what I need in Office and I don't in OpenOffice and as a result it takes me 10 minutes to do what seems like a simple task.

Also OpenOffice can't *save* Office 2007 documents.

[p.dath]

I'm lookng for an upgrade to my Office 2007 Home and Student package - I really need the Small Business upgrade to get Publisher and Outlook.

I'd jump straight to Office 2010. Don't see the point in getting some softwae that has already been obsoleted.

If your a student then head down to your local campus shop and get yourself another student and teacher edition.

[marty]

yeah last night i found the 2010 office for student, which has outlook included, is $99.....

[Big Dave]

All Office 2007 and 2010 applications can save as PDF now.
.

In that case - powerpoint is quite a good desktop publishing application.

You just have to take it out of screen display mode and set it up for print specs and it will do a nice layout.

[St_Gabriel]

sorry to tailgate on someone else's thread, Im keen for a key as well for outlook 2007 seeing as M$ only had windows live mail included in win 7. Happy to pay in cash or beer. Or if a friendly student who has a tertiary email account wants to do the purchase of the $99 office professional academic 2010 for me, I would be greatly appreciative.