Groupon - MS Office for £10. Is there a catch?

[Big Rig]

I need excel for my Mac, groupon are seemingly doing an office standard licence for £10.64.

Is this a scam?

https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/office-2024-profes...

[QuartzDad]

Not a scam but won't work on a Mac.

[QuartzDad]

Mac compatible version https://softmall.co.uk/product/microsoft-office-st...

Seems that 2024 is for newer Macs and 2021 is for older ones.

[unzippy]

Check you can register it to the email address of your choice. Some of these come with their own email addresses.

[DE1975]

It's legit (here's the Groupon offer for the Mac version)

https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/technivision-austr...

I bought it a couple of months ago. Groupon purchase gets you a discount code to use at a software vendors site (RC Software was the vendor when I bought)

You enter the discount code on their site and get a downloaded copy of fully functional office 2024 standard ( outlook ,word, PowerPoint, excel). Cost me £11.49 when I did it.

[Alex Z]

Ta!

That’ll come in handy

[Big Rig]

DE1975 said:

It's legit (here's the Groupon offer for the Mac version)

https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/technivision-austr...

I bought it a couple of months ago. Groupon purchase gets you a discount code to use at a software vendors site (RC Software was the vendor when I bought)

You enter the discount code on their site and get a downloaded copy of fully functional office 2024 standard ( outlook ,word, PowerPoint, excel). Cost me £11.49 when I did it.

Ok so I purchased this from the above, I've doanloaded it but word, office etc are all locked saying I need to activate Microsoft 365 to edit?

[Mazinbrum]

Big Rig said:

Ok so I purchased this from the above, I've doanloaded it but word, office etc are all locked saying I need to activate Microsoft 365 to edit?

I did that, you need to download the licence too, you should have a link in the email.

[bmwmike]

Offer for windows is "Office 2024 Professional Plus or Office 2024 Standard" - why would anyone not choose professional over standard?

[Ydnaroo]

One thing to watch out for with recent versions of Office for Windows is that there is no simple way to select just the apps you want when installing, you have to have the whole suite. (I don't know if this applies to the Mac version.) I only want Word and Excel, I don't want Access, PowerPoint and particularly not Outlook!
There is a way doing this in Windows by using the Office Deployment Tool from MS and then editing an .xml file and doing some command line stuff but it’s a pain. You can find similarly priced licences for Word and Excel separately and that's the way I'll go next time I want a new install.