there are two ways you can buy Microsoft
Office for your home computer you can
buy a subscription to office 365 or you
can buy office 2019 as a one-off
purchase which is best for you let's
find out
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hi guys a couple of years ago I made a
video where I compared an office 365
annual subscription to just purchasing
Microsoft Office outright since then
Microsoft has been pushing their 365
subscriptions more than ever and it
seems like they really don't want people
to buy office as a one-off purchase
anymore although that option is
definitely very much still there
recently they've changed what they're
offering slightly so I thought it was
time to make an up-to-date video where I
compare the two products there are
several factors which can help you
decide which version of Office is better
for you do you work on a Windows
computer or a Mac do you need to work on
a mobile device like a phone or a tablet
do you need any extra apps like Outlook
or publisher and are you just buying
office for yourself or do you need other
members of the family to have it on
their computers too I hope that by
watching this video you can make a
decision on which type of office is the
best one for you and later on I've got
some advice on where you can buy office
cheaper than getting it directly from
Microsoft and since I made my last video
on this subject I've had loads of
feedback from you guys so I'll be
running through some of the helpful
comments people have contributed let's
start by looking at the three main
programs you get with both types of
office if you want to open documents
that people send to you or you want to
write your own letters and documents
Microsoft Word is probably the best word
processing you can buy it's also
essential these days to be able to work
with spreadsheets in Excel and
PowerPoint is a really popular way of
making presentations for work and school
you can get Word Excel and PowerPoint in
a single package called Microsoft Office
and you have two basic choices you can
either subscribe to office 365 personal
for 59 pound 99 per year or you can make
a one-time purchase of office home
Institute in 2019 for 119 pounds 99 you
can find the price of office in your
local currency by heading over to this
website products office comm they have a
helpful page there that can
the prices of office for home use now
comparing these two choices it seems to
make sense to buy office 2019 as
subscribing to office 365 for more than
two years would cost more than the
one-off purchase so why would anyone pay
for office 365
well it turns out it offers some extra
features that might just make it worth
the extra cost provided those are
features that you think you'll actually
use let's have a look at the extra
features in office 365 firstly you get
one terabyte of onedrive storage in my
opinion this is the main selling point
onedrive is a service that takes the
files you save on your computer and
stores them securely online it's a
really easy way to keep your files
backed up and if you ever find yourself
without your computer you can just log
into the onedrive website on any
computer and get access to your files
you can even work on your documents
office365 lets you use the office apps
on your smartphone or tablet Word Excel
and PowerPoint if you need to work on a
document when you're away from your
computer you can find it in the onedrive
app and then open it in an app like word
and make the changes you need one
terabyte is a really generous amount of
storage it's a thousand gigabytes which
is more than you can store on most
laptops onedrive is more cost effective
than most other cloud storage providers
if you want to get this sort of storage
from Dropbox or Google Drive you'll have
to pay more each year and onedrive gives
you the benefit of the office apps -
next you get three extra programs with
an office 365 subscription outlook is a
popular email client that includes
calendars and tasks publisher is ideal
for print projects such as posters and
newsletters and access is a powerful
database program that lets you store and
analyze data if you were to buy office
home in student 2019 then you would have
to purchase these apps separately and
each one would cost you an extra 109
pounds 99 so far we've been looking at
office on a Windows computer but what if
you have a Mac well office 365 and
Office 2019 are both available for the
Mac in the past Office for Mac was a
very different product to the Windows
version but Microsoft have worked hard
to make the Mac offering feel the same
as on Windows programs like Word Excel
PowerPoint and onedrive have almost the
same features although you do
occasionally find that some tools
haven't quite made their way to the Mac
yet if you're hoping to use publisher or
access on the Mac then you're out of
luck you can still only get them on a
Windows computer another factor is
whether you're going to be buying office
for yourself or for the whole family
when I showed you the price of office
365 that was for office 365 personal
which lets you use office on all your
own computers for 59 pound ninety-nine
per year if you want to share office
with other family members then you might
find it better value to subscribe to
office 365 Home Instead which is 79
pound ninety-nine per year and can be
used by up to six people if you buy
office Home Instead
20-19 you only get to install it on one
PC or Mac that's it so with all these
factors in mind which version of Office
should you buy I would recommend you go
for office 365 if you want to use office
on more than one device if you want to
store all your files on onedrive and if
you need any of the extra apps like
Outlook Access or publisher if you're
just getting office 365 for yourself
then you should sign up to office 365
personal but if you want other people in
your family to use it then you should
get office 365 home on the other hand a
subscription isn't for everyone if you
just want Word Excel and PowerPoint you
don't think you'll need onedrive or the
extra apps and if you only want to
install Office on one computer then
you'll save money in the long run if you
go for office Home and Student 2019
since I made a video a couple of years
ago comparing office 365 with office
2016 I've had loads of really helpful
comments back from you guys letting me
know how you made your mind up so I
thought I'd share a few of your tips
here first if you subscribe to office
365 you get Skype features it's free to
call people on skype but if you want to
phone mobiles or landlines you have to
pay for your calls and it turns out that
if you have office 365 they give you 60
minutes of Skype calls each month so
thanks to mj7 for that suggestion
some people have voiced their
frustration that software always seems
to need a subscription these days
whereas in the past you bought a one-off
license and that was it as people are
pointing out you seem to be paying more
in the end for your software a few
people have pointed out that Microsoft
Office isn't the only office software
out there you can use programs like
OpenOffice
LibreOffice or Google Docs and all these
are free and let you work on documents
that are compatible with the Microsoft
file formats so I guess it depends on
how much you're fixed on the idea of
buying Microsoft Office someone called
hero hour has warned against putting all
your work into onedrive because if you
don't store your files anywhere else
then you're required to keep paying each
year for your subscription or you risk
losing your files that's a fair point
and Mario Mahmood points out that if you
subscribe to office 365 then you'll
always get the latest feature updates
whereas if you buy office 2019 then it
won't get any of the new features that
come out if you want new features in
future then you might have to wait until
office 2022 comes out I guess that's
what the next version will be called I
promised at the beginning of this video
that I'd help you find office cheaper
than if you were shopping directly at
Microsoft and you can actually buy
office cheaper by going to Amazon
instead Amazon will send you a product
key which you can then redeem on the
Microsoft website and this works for
both office 365 and office 2019 you just
need to make sure you buy the product
key directly from Amazon because there
are some merchants that seem to be
selling dodgy keys through Amazon so
I've put the links to the Amazon web
pages for the genuine office product
keys in the description to this video
and if you click on those links they
should take you to the right
Amazon Web page in your part of the
world hopefully this video helped you
decide which version of Office you'd
like to buy so let me know in the
comments below which version you go for
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