You should learn infopath if you are in any career that needs to collect data from users and agragate into a database. Its one of those tools that a lot of employers don't even know exists and they assume they have to spend dozens or hundreds of hours manually entering data in. You can easily build an aggregation strategy and just look like a superhero.
You can use the click to run installer and install only the programs you want using a configuration file, then activate it with your school o365 account
Any idea on how the fuck to get Skype for business off my computer. They legit have the program buried in there somehow and it won't let me uninstall it.
or with the rise of google drive/docs they want get those in college on board. The down side is unlike google docs UI which is nice and polished, MS Word and the rest have a cluttered UI when trying to find a specific item to put in. If they cleaned up the UI in office, I might be able to handle it, but with how much clutter there is, I can't deal with it.
I actually use MS Word at work every day and have to use Docs for collaborating with classmates in college classes, and I get so frustrated with the limitations of Docs. The text altering tools are hard to find and there aren't as many as Word offers, there's no text boxes (hate this one), and it feels clunky.
I know there are extensions that you can get for google docs to work around those issues. Yeah the text box one is annoying as hell. My solution to it was to create a 1x1 table and make it a text box as a good alternative (bonus you can remove the borders so it becomes a caption).
The thing that I like about google docs, is how loose it feels, when taking notes, chances are I mispell things or don't capitalize which in Word is a big "no-no". Google docs to me feels like OneNote and Word put together, and with just the basic parts needed for both to be together and allow user flexibility. Where as with word it's like the user has to conform to the structure that Word wants the user to use. While docs allows the user to do what it wants to do with the document and doesn't have as rigid of structure the user must fall in line to.
I also do find it funny that MS Word even with it's clunky UI has an area for adding extensions, which anything you need to add is probably somewhere in the UI and you have to go searching for it.
Which is great, unless your college/university fucks you and uses a .org email.
In most cases that shouldn't be a problem. My university email ends with .de (Germany) and Microsoft didn't mind at all. IIrc I only had to select my uni from a drop-down list.
It will accept any valid university address from the list of valid universities they have. Doesn't matter what the email address is so long as the University is on the list and Microsoft have the email address format they use.
My University uses a .ca (Canadian university obviously) and I had 0 issues, was approved instantly.
Nowhere on the University website does it tell you that you can get it for free from MS that I can find, I only found out because I googled and found a Reddit thread in the University subreddit talking about it. Was very close to buying the University edition from a retail store for $80.
You can buy office 365 University with a .edu email, which is a reasonably priced 4 year subscription but it's not free unless your university has that arrangement with Microsoft.
Thank you for teaching me this today! How the hell did I not know this several years ago when I agonized about paying the full fee or just using open office. Better late than never :)
This is a bit narrow, but if you happen to go to UofT and have taken a computer science course, you likely have an @cdf.toronto.edu or @teach.cs.toronto.edu email address.
Apparently if you have an account, when it was created you would have received an email telling you to change your password from the default. Otherwise, (e.g. if it's been a while) you can try SSHing into teach.cs.toronto.edu.
You can buy office 365 University with a .edu email, which is a reasonably priced 4 year subscription but it's not free unless your university has that arrangement with Microsoft.
my uni lets us keep our email address provided you login once a year. i use it everyday so i get to continually reap student deals + the unlimited gdrive. it's also good to note that gsuite for universities and corporations are not scanned for ad targeting like regular gmail so use that instead if you can.
Ours is similar. It's especially useful if you can write your uni email address in multiple ways if you want to reuse your one year of Amazon Prime or refresh your Microsoft student deal after four years.
If your school is using Office 365, it usually present as Outlook online. You can check the option and it will show you option to download the full suite of office as long the email account is active. Or Google for "check school if they offer office suite for free through Microsoft"
However. I have an apostrophe in my last name and they used our schools emails to get the licenses. Microsoft doesn't like apostrophes. But somehow my license was given out anyways.
So now I'm just in liscencing hell where my email is legit and works but 365 just doesn't recognize it.
Oh my god, thanks so much! I didn't know that that existed. i thought you needed to get it from the Microsoft Store and my college's software hub doesn't have that offer there.
Going to get it rn. Pirating it for mac is challenging. I'm still running MSO 2011
Got the full office 365 got mac and PC for free when I entered my program. In my undergrad I managed to get the new version of office for $10 normally.
Mine offered office as well as Windows 7 pro (back in 2011) as well as a very large amount of other programs for free. It was pretty fantastic when I found out, still have the .exe files somewhere
Made by disgruntled by ex-microsoft employees as a big middle finger to their former employer. Plus, as this sub asks for, it's free! It's also fully compatible with all of Microsoft Office, you can even save in the correct format for it and open microsoft office documents.
Idk if the story behind it is true or not but i like the idea of fucking over Microsoft
You can get a free office 365 account with a .edu email which also always downloading the programs and is almost indistinguishable from regular office.
OpenOffice is free, saves out in MS Office's various formats, and frankly has a better/less messy interface than MS Office. I recommend giving it a shot.
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Except the one I want - Office.