Buying advice please

[Dan_T]

Never had to buy my own software before so on looking I have this question.

Want to buy Office 2003 Pro and can see widely varying prices. Seems some come with just CD and licence and others (more expensive with documentation) Worth gettin with docs? or just buy the cheaper thing.

Cheers

Dan

 

[Dan_T]

Am I asking this question in the wrong place?

 

[ColinEssex]

Dan, I'm not an expert in this but my 2p worth is that the "documentation" you refer to I wouldn't think would cover that much other than basics.

With OfficePro, each package within it is hugely complex, thats why there's loads of books on Word, Access, Excel etc. I would buy the CD and then get specialist books on whichever part you want to use.

Col

 

[Dan_T]

Colin cheers mate. Thats much as I suspected but needed someone to agree. Seem the non cumbersome version for £175 which sounds good to me compared to about £445. Thats room for plenty of books of which I already have a few. Any idea where is a good place to get the packaging tools?

Thanks again

Dan

 

[ColinEssex]

Not really Dan - my home pc came with all the bits I needed from Dell so I don't buy software really. I'm sure others will be able to help on this though.

Incidentally, I'd try to find out what exactly is in the documentation of the expensive CD. . . .get PC World to explain it, they reckon they're all so brilliant

Col

 

[Rich]

.get PC World to explain it, they reckon they're all so brilliant

Col

Is there one in Cornwall?

 

[ColinEssex]

Is there one in Cornwall?

no - there's no 'e' in Cornwall

Col

 

[Dan_T]

hehe yeah there is a shed somewhere down west with a hand writen sign saying somethin like PC world. Could be that.