Office 360

[GilpinGuy]

Another dumb question from GG.

I bought a laptop a year ago and paid for Office 360 ($70). The subscription is due in a few weeks. If I let the subscription expire will I still have a usable Word and Exel on the laptop? Other downfalls of not subscribing? It probably won't update is my guess, if it works at all.

I ask because I don't use the cloud service at all and and only use Word, etc. on one the one device...not multiple, both of which seems to be a selling point for them.

Maybe I'm just being a cheap ass and should pay the $70.

[thedave1164]

I am not sure if they will still work or not, but look into LibreOffice, it is free and does pretty much everything Office 365 will do.

[Madeinhb]

I don't believe it will work at all.

[Irving]

I just use Open Office. I'm not sure if that is still the cool kid free software though.

[CS1983]

Open Office is the way to go if you don't want to pay.

[cfortune]

No they will not work. 0365 is going to check licensing every time you open one of the corresponding applications. We only have a few Visio licenses at work and pass them around when needed. Every time mine gets repurposed it tells me upon opening a Visio document then the application closes. I would do what Cav suggested and just get Open Office if you need Word, Excel, etc.

[GilpinGuy]

I've been messing with Open Office this morning. Pretty slick. It does everything I need, so .

Thanks for the help!