Microsoft has two versions of Office on the go, as well as multiple editions of both versions.
Office 2019
Microsoft produces a version of Office designed to be bought as a stand alone product on a PC or Mac. Make sure you buy the right version for the Mac or PC. You buy the software once for the life of your computer. All versions are activated online with a Microsoft Account, this reduces piracy.
Home & Student for PC
Home & Student gives you three products:
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
This retails for £119.99 if bought direct from Microsoft or £59.53 from SCDKey (search for Office.) If you don’t need the latest version, you can pick up the previous version for £17.50 from the same link.
Home & Business
Home & Business offers:
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
- Outlook for email
This retails for £249.99 if bought from Microsoft. The Mac version is available from SCDKey for £86.69 and £43.77 for the 2016 version.
Professional Plus for PC
Home & Business offers:
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
- Outlook for email
- Access for databases
- Publisher for Desktop Publishing
- OneNote for note taking
Microsoft doesn’t sell this direct to customers, but SCDKey has it for £56.91 and £28.89 for Office 2016
Note also that Access and Publisher only work on a PC.
Office 365
Microsoft offers a subscription model for people who are willing to have the latest version of Office all the time.
Home
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
- Outlook for email
- Access for databases
- Publisher for Desktop Publishing
Office 365 allows up to 6 users to install and use the product. This could be on a PC, Mac, tablet or phone, for either £7.99 per month or £79.99 per year. Each user gets 1TB of online storage with OneDrive.
Personal
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
- Outlook for email
- Access for databases
- Publisher for Desktop Publishing
Office 365 allows a single user to install and use the product. This could be on a PC, Mac, tablet or phone, for either £5.99 per month or £59.99 per year. With 1TB of online storage with OneDrive.
Neither of these plans are open to business users. Instead:
Business
Business
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
- Outlook for email
- Access for databases
Business Premium
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
- Outlook for email
- Access for databases
Plus:
- Exchange for Email hosting and calendaring
- Sharepoint for building websites
- Microsoft Teams for workplace chat
For: £9.40 Excl. VAT per person per month.
Business Essentials
Web and mobile apps for Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Plus:
- Exchange for Email hosting and calendaring
- Sharepoint for building websites
- Microsoft Teams for workplace chat
For: £3.80 Excl. VAT per person per month.
Enterprise
Enterprise E1
No programs are included, no web nor mobile apps.
Plus:
- Exchange for Email hosting and calendaring
- Sharepoint for building websites
- Microsoft Teams for workplace chat
- Yammer for corporate social media
- Stream for Video streaming
For £6.00 Excl Vat per user per month.
Office 365 ProPlus
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
- Outlook for email
- Access for databases
- Publisher for Desktop Publishing
For £11.00 Excl Vat per user per month.
Office 365 Enterprise E3
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
- Outlook for email
- Access for databases
- Publisher for Desktop Publishing
Plus:
- Exchange for Email hosting and calendaring
- Sharepoint for building websites
- Microsoft Teams for workplace chat
- Yammer for corporate social media
- Stream for Video streaming
For £17.60 Excl Vat per user per month.
Office 365 Enterprise E5
- Word for word processing
- Excel for spreadsheets
- Powerpoint for presentations
- Outlook for email
- Access for databases
- Publisher for Desktop Publishing
Plus:
- Exchange for Email hosting and calendaring
- Sharepoint for building websites
- Microsoft Teams for workplace chat
- Yammer for corporate social media
- Stream for Video streaming
- Power BI for Business analytics
For £38.00 Excl Vat per user per month.
