anyone installed " MS Office " on a stream type PC

[Guest]

We got our daughter a HP stream laptop last christmas, its great, its lightweight and works well ( i have a small screen one here, hers is 14" and mine is 11" )

anyways, it comes with Office 365, she hates this office and is struggling with it

Not sure what office the PC's use in school are ( Office 16 or 19 ? ? ) but she prefers to do her assignments on the school PC's, as they have " real office "

looking online it looks like the install takes 3 gig, her space on the 32 gig HD is just over 3 gig ( though mine is just over 12 gig as i did a fresh install of 10 and got rid of the bloat )

so anyone had any joy with installing a " real " ms office on the HD

[BevS97]

Yes. I’ve put it on a few at work. It works ok but obviously you have to be aware that you don’t have much storage space.

[madasahat]

is she using the office 365 via the web or has she downloaded the installed version ? the installed version will be the same as 2016 with a few tweaks 2010 is going out of support so no one should be using that now.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by BevS97

Yes. I’ve put it on a few at work. It works ok but obviously you have to be aware that you don’t have much storage space.

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thanks, i have a 64 gig sd card she can use for storage and its " flush fitting " so will work well

Originally Posted by madasahat

is she using the office 365 via the web or has she downloaded the installed version ? the installed version will be the same as 2016 with a few tweaks 2010 is going out of support so no one should be using that now.

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the web based version, ( i think, but will check , though something has eaten alot of space, as might has over 12 gig left, surely bloatware wont be 9 gig ? ? ? ) well its all cloud based as you get a slight lag


I guess the best bet is to get her to check which version she is using in school, though you would expect it to be the latest version

[Guest]

or do i just get her a cheap slightly older PC with real HD

ebay/itm/FAST-CHEA... c100005.m1851


i5 CPU, 8 gig Ram, 250 gig HD with win 10, £130 delivered

She can then just use it for her A Level assignments

[BevS97]

To be honest for basic office and Internet I was very impressed with the Streams we had. But I’m surprised she has only got 3gb left. That sounds wrong.

[Guest]

I love my chromebook and my HP stream ( use the HP as the chromebook will not work with a football coaches site i need )

i am guessing it has a fair bit of bloatware on, maybe it does have Office 365 installed on it ? ?

[Guest]

just checked, about 1.5 gig of sports video's on the HD ( for her school work )

i clicked on office, has a link to :

Install office

and

Buy Office 365


click on on the install and it says " Go premium with Office 365 to install the latest apps on your PC or Mac " with a " I have a Office prodcut Key " link

So does that mean she hasnt got the full office installed ? ? ? is it a lite version ? ? ? if we paid the £119 for Office Home and student 2019 it would be the full version ? ? ?

thanks

[galaxyflorida]

If she has a school email address she should be able to download full Office for free.

Try logging in with her school email here aka.ms/office-install

[madasahat]

please see the link below what you are looking at does not have outlook. You might be better off with a subscription. most sw is subscription now

products.office/en-gb/co...ab%3aprimaryr1