Office Student and Teachers Question??

[Thewiggster]

Hi There

I am a current a Year 11 student (16 years old) taking my GCSE's this year in the UK, and after that in september will be taking up a placement at my schools 6th Form collage (2years, till 18 years old)

I am wondering basicly if this would allow me to qualify to buy the cheaper student and teachers licence of office???....and what i would need to prove myself as being a student in the installation process??

Many Thanks

[tomster2300]

Originally Posted by Thewiggster Hi There I am a current a Year 11 student (16 years old) taking my GCSE's this year in the UK, and after that in september will be taking up a placement at my schools 6th Form collage (2years, till 18 years old) I am wondering basicly if this would allow me to qualify to buy the cheaper student and teachers licence of office???....and what i would need to prove myself as being a student in the installation process?? Many Thanks

I believe you would have to give some sort of identification, such as a student ID number or a student email account. Here in the U.S. we're given our own email account and I.D. card when enrolling in a major university - also typical of smaller colleges as well. Not sure how it works in the U.K.

[glc]

Here in the US, you don't have to prove eligibility to buy Office S&T - you can just go into a store and buy it. There is no proof of anything in the installation process, you just have to click through a EULA which does spell out the eligibility just like any other EULA.

[Stuey]

Originally Posted by glc Here in the US, you don't have to prove eligibility to buy Office S&T - you can just go into a store and buy it. There is no proof of anything in the installation process, you just have to click through a EULA which does spell out the eligibility just like any other EULA.

That's not entirely true. [Edit]Different stores treat the sale differently.[/Edit] I asked my father to pick up a copy of MS Onenote S&T edition since it was cheaper at store near his office than I could get it online, and I was going home for break a few days later. He called me up saying that they needed a copy of my ID and a copy of my schedule since I wasn't buying the program directly. I took a picture of my ID and sent a link with my schedule and my father had to print it out to bring it to the store.

The rules might be lax at some places, but other stores will take the rules very seriously. School ID should be enough to verify your status as a student.

[sdkfz]

here are the conditions in the US

http://www.microsoft.com/office/edit...ouqualify.mspx


and the UK

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/educatio...acher/#qualify

[trulad]

I purchased a copy at Best Buy , I teach part time for the Community College and they never asked for ID.
trulad

[Thewiggster]

Cheers Guys that has been a great help!!!

[ktkendall]

Thanks to Panama Red's recent post to someone inquiring about where is the cheapest place to get MS office, I just got it for 99.99.. Been waiting quite awhile to find it under 100..

[RayH]

TheWiggster Personally, at this time I would wait before purchasing Microsoft Office Academic unless you absolutely need it. Next year, Microsoft will be releasing its new Office suite with a better license.

In the meantime, I would just do with OpenOffice 2.0, which has most of the features that a student would need.

[tomster2300]

My laptop came with Microsoft Works. I have to save it in a rich text format so Word can read it, but it's only a matter of picking the option in a drop down menu while saving.

I have Word on my desktop though, but I alternate between the two - just depends on where I am and what I'm doing. I've used OpenOffice as well in the past and I believe it works the same way. The Richtext format is a universal word processing file type I believe. I've heard of people getting the educator/student version of office for under $10 before at certain colleges. I believe it's $120 at my campus's bookstore, though I'm not sure.

[RayH]

After you pop $25,000 for tuition and a room, some colleges will give students a "free" copy of MS Office. Maybe if they only charged $24,850, the students would have to buy their own copy! My son gets a "free" copy!

[tomster2300]

Originally Posted by RayH After you pop $25,000 for tuition and a room, some colleges will give students a "free" copy of MS Office. Maybe if they only charged $24,850, the students would have to buy their own copy! My son gets a "free" copy!

Ha. Well, it doesn't work like that down here unfortunately. They keep hiking tuition too so they can continue their constant campus construction (which is ridiculous since it's already enormous). I don't know the exact size, but they won't let you schedule back to back classes if they're less than 15 minutes apart because it's physically impossible to get from one end of campus to the other in less than that time.