Microsoft Office
Guides, comparisons and buying advice for Microsoft Office — perpetual licences, edition differences, and how to get the right version for your needs.
Microsoft Publisher files use a proprietary .pub format that nothing else opens natively. With Publisher retiring in October 2026, the window to convert your files is closing. This guide covers every method — PDF, Word, and image formats — with honest advice on what each option preserves and what it doesn’t. You need Publisher to […]
Office 2016 reached the end of its support life on 14 October 2025. No more security patches, no more fixes — and its supported connection to Microsoft 365 email and cloud services ended two years before that. If you’re still running it, the question isn’t whether to upgrade. It’s which route costs you least. Office […]
Every UK student with an active university email address qualifies for 30% off every licence we sell — Office, Windows, Visual Studio, all of it. Here’s what you actually get for free through your university, where that access stops, and why the smartest time to use the discount is before you graduate, not after. Office […]
Office “Unlicensed Product” in the title bar, a code you’ve never seen before, and most of your Office features quietly disabled — activation errors are rarely as serious as they look. Most have a specific, fixable cause. Here’s what the common codes actually mean and the order worth trying fixes in, before you assume the […]
Microsoft 365 “Copilot” now means at least three different things depending on where you’re clicking it from — and only one of them costs anything extra. Here’s what Microsoft Copilot (free) actually gives you, what you’re paying for when Copilot turns up as a line item in Microsoft 365, and whether most people need the […]
Office Home & Business 2024 for Mac is the latest version. It’s also the most expensive perpetual Mac Office licence available right now. For a lot of Mac users — those who write documents, manage email, build straightforward spreadsheets, and run presentations — the 2021 edition does everything they need at a considerably lower price. […]
A Windows reinstall wipes Office from your machine, but it does not cancel your licence. Whether you have Office Professional Plus 2024, Home & Business 2024, or an older version, you are entitled to reinstall it at no extra cost. The process depends entirely on which edition you have — because the two main types […]