Or you could have this great alternative free forever: https://www.libreoffice.org/

Cold, I paid 1/2p for this at Woolworths in 1973.

​if only sainsburys became a chain of stores :wink:

Sounds like a hopeless goose chase since there were only two left on shelf.

I've got a feeling that this may have been an error which Sainsbury's are now aware of. I'm trying to scan them as I type this and it comes up as unable to be sold. Took it to customer service and they scanned it at £59.99

I thought she would be a bike

Works for me.

Still a great alternative for the vast majority of people then. :smirk:

Sainsbury's don't sell software as far as I know, only the Argos that they are linked to do, but it's £50+on there...

That link goes no where :disappointed:

https://www.wps.com/ is so much better

"Great" alternative?? I don't think so. If you use complicated macros, specific formatting, add ins, plug ins - then LibreOffice is NOT for you. Simple things yes. Complicated no.

They had about 30 of the cards in the Swansea store the day this deal was posted. Been there for many months. Today there are none so presumably there has been a run on them.

Yep, I second that. It does everything I need from an Office suite at no cost. 'Google docs' is another free, though online only, option.

Here "alternative" is according to the usage of Kellyanne Conway.

It supports Word, Excel, Powerpoint properly which Open Office doesn't.

Become a student and its free (I'm Open University studying) as is the course, nearly 3 grand a year.

Great find - great deal for a year!

but then falls flat on its face - i mean, why have subscriptions Microsoft!? just sell the software. or am i missing something?

If you're sufficiently addicted to HotUKDeals you'll have spotted another cheap year or two by then, and have them ready.

BUT - you get attached to it and a year is soon over - then what do you do?

The number you need isn't on the barcode. It's: 126974038

And as per my post on the previous page, I've done a search of the system and the only store showing stock at the time was Hanley. There's every chance that's a mistake, so don't go too far out of your way to check.

No probs, I included both as I am not sure which one scanned. Sorry!

Cheers for barcode pic, do you know which barcode Sainsbury's scanned, left or right barcode? Thanks

It's the office equivalent of a "bike shaped object"

Truthfully, the word processor is fine but their version of Powerpoint and Excel are laughable.

I believe the Office home upgrade trick still works too. Stack no more than 4 of the Office Personal subs to your account and then go to your microsoft account and purchase a 1 month (disable auto renew) Office 365 Home. It should convert the Personal 4 years in Home for 4 years and one month. You can now install office in 5 places an add 5 people to each get there own 1TB of one drive etc.

Sorry for delay.

There's always one Will McKenzie amongst us.

In this case, it doesn't really matter as it's another deal that is pretty much restricted to the OP and therefore no deal.

Because 99% of deals on here are siht but this one is a bit less so. ;-)

wow ! why this is still the hottest deal today ? it has even been confirmed that there are no more stock available anywhere.

not online of course, in-store only :smiley:

I've been using http://www.kingsoftstore.com (free) for years now at home, do you know if Libre office is better? Thanks :smiley:

​Wow let's hope your kidding, if not could you please not use this site any more. We kind of like getting deals even miss prices

:neutral_face:

​ where is it in staples? I can't see it on their website

I contacted Sainsburys to ask about this... They thanked me and informed the price is now scanning correctly

Which of course you'll uninstall if you ever leave ;-)

Just in case anyone wants to download Office 365 - completely free of charge for students and teachers:

Get Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & OneNote) for FREE [Students & Teachers Only]

​Looks like treasure hunting in Sainsburys. There was another post around Christmas time for the same, and I checked out several Sainsburys near me but couldn't find Microsoft office anywhere in Sainsburys.

​SaaS is now the way the modern world works.

and if my grandmother had wheels she would be a car.

This is not a post about LibreOffice

Another "local" deal showing up on my National search, where I have to vote cold for everyone else but hot for the OP, so cold but still a great find. I'll stick to OpenOffice and MySQL for my database needs...

My god! I've been needing this for my new computer for months but couldn't justify the 59.99 Microsoft were selling it at.

Heartbroken the Sainsbury's closest to me has closed down because this would be absolutely perfect.

Libreoffice is OK unless you want to use database functions. Access is vastly better than the free offering in LibreOffice. Costs more obviously but no comparison when it comes to power.

Yep, us too! Great fun!

The 1p pricing is due to the inventory listing going discontinued (probably in favour of the swipe cards everyone is mentioning).
The op is lucky, as they are supposed to be removed from sale and sent back to supplier for a full refund. The 1p is normally a red flag for store colleagues, but so few know of this!
Well done for grabbing what you can!

Seems legit....


Similar but not the same, LibreOffice was created from a fork of OpenOffice by a different group of people.

OpenOffice IS LibreOffice.

​is it better than OpenOffice?

I bought a lifetime subscription on eBay for £19.99.

fair few left in Alphington store in Exeter.

Please can you put product code or barcode from box when you scanned instore? Thanks

the next best deal is @ £30 if you have a staples store near you

​Thanks but I was looking for a recommendation not a way search for one.

Price is correct. There's basically no stock anywhere though; Hanley was the only store showing stock, and that could be wrong.

what a load of Bargain..... an entire office for a 1p

Hi. Sorry for the delay. I found it near to the Belkin phone cables, and Fitbit activity monitors.

Miles ahead of you - all external file transfer site like that are completely blocked as we handle credit card transactions and have the joys of PCI DSS regs to abide by!

You don't, the onedrive storage is through office 365 programmes.

Yeah I mean, you want a Ferrari but may as well just go for a Ford Focus 1.6TDCI instead :smirk:

For you.

He's got a very valid point though!

OO is no longer properly maintained as most contributors have either gave up or gone to LibreOffice

How do you get the One drive storage through Office 2016 keys that we get through the home use program? I thought we only get the software.

Lol, brilliant - I love totally random comments like this!

Make sure you lock down your onedrive for business otherwise they will be able to sync company files to their computers.

That's office 365 e3 probably.

can anybody suggest a good free alternative to Microsoft publisher please.

I don't know why, but I always have a curious interest in looking at other peoples receipts... If there is a trolley in the trolley bay and its got a receipt in then i am happy, essential reading for the next few minutes... One day, I'm going to replicate what they buy , live like them, and see if I enjoy it more !!!


I suppose that is the only way I would ever try 'Lentil Dahl Soup'

The reports I've read say that it's more or less identical to Open Office. What do you like better compared to OO?

I can't find it in my local Sainsburys either at the full price or the reduced price. I assume it's near the laptops??

A subscription for an office program seems ridiculous to me. All the more reason to use Libreoffice.

Yes it's not bad, however you must go in to the general settings and make sure that it saves as Word, Excel and Powerpoint 2007-2013 by default otherwise you'll end up with open office file types which most other people won't have a clue how to open if you end up sharing the documents via email etc.

Couldn't agree more. I've used most of the free 'office' alternatives and LibreOffice (cross platform) is IMO the best.

This was posted a couple of months ago:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/office-365-personal-12-50-sainsburys-instore-2550610
OP was lucky but I can confirm this is store specific as last time I wasted a few journeys to my local branches and found them @ full price.

Still £40 at Oldbury Sainsburys

The cloud computing productivity aisle

What area of the store was this in?

Cheers for that. Sounds like you'd be fun to hang around with.:smile:

wow what a genuine bargain...well done

If you can - get yourself 5. You can stack up to 5 years on a 365 account. £60 for 5 years of Office 365, absolute bargain.

Visio (or Project) is available for £9.95 through the Home Useage Programme if your company offers it.

Current price for a copy of Office 2016 through the HUP (Home Usage Programme) is £9.95 I think. As people have said, it's a one off payment and is something Microsoft started doing for holders of certain levels of commercial MS licence or partners. You actually buy a licence using a special code linked to the company and it's emailed to you for download. In our agreement we are allowed to personally buy up to 2 per year and the company is limited in the total number per year. Legally I think you are supposed to delete the licence if you leave the company but there's nothing stopping you from keeping and using it.


We're in the process of shifting some users to Office 365 which means those users assigned a licence will be able to download "free" copies for home use. We have a limited number of licences (less than the number of employees) and they are all logged to the companies account by Microsoft and are assigned to your username so fully trackable. We can also delete / disable them from the licence portal and I would imagine your company will be the same. The single commercial Office 365 licences allow 5 installations on a PC or Mac, 10 on a tablet and 10 on a phone, so 25 in total per user, but only for business use and again, all tracked. Your company has to be signed up to an Office 365 licence in the first place and have some kind of link from your internal network to MS to provide the authentication for users or use some Microsoft cloud products that include them.

As people said above, a 365 licence must "phone home" over the internet every 30 days to re-activate. If it can't or if the licence has been deleted / disabled etc, the product becomes similar in functionality to the free Office apps you can download from the IOS and Android App stores.

Eh? You mean you have an MSDN subscription?

That seems high, mine was £9.95 via HUP

Shame Visio isn't included with the MSOffice bundles, it's generally a much more useful program for people than, say, Access.

Sirloin and ribeye. :man:

If you have office at work you can generally sign in to your work outlook account on the website on your home computer and download I think I get 5 licenses. Haven't ever paid for office ha

What does activation involve in a store? I see this mentioned often on here but what exactly is involved?

Ah, this came in a box. My local Sainsburys only has these as little cards about the size of a credit card for sale. They have a silver foil bit on the back presumably with the code underneath so I suspect no activation required by the staff.

can I use this offline without an Internet connection once installed?

someone please advise me why I should have 365 vs normal office 2016. price seems ridiculous if you keep renewing every year... forgive my confusion.

You can stack the subscription codes, so enter them now and your sub will run for however many years you bought

It is an excellent model if you're Microsoft! - the 5 computer pack at £79 a year is arguably OK as you can install on 5 different machines/family members/cousins/uncles/aunts/man in pub etc

Cold, I paid 1/2p for this at Woolworths in 1973.

Software that's never yours. Great model, Microsoft. :smirk: Still loving Office 2010 but this is a great deal for those who don't mind renting. Forever.

Ah - thanks for clarifying. Didn't know that.

but you have to connect to internet once a month minimum to keep it working.

ONE store that now has none and the lemmings come running!!! is this just a vote on who got something cheap?????? I bought a car once it was a really good deal might post that

I've already got mine (well 2016 Pro) for £17.95...for as long as I work at my place. No subs ....

hence the wild goose chase, doh

Last time this was on offer my local had none. Just cards to take to the counter. So I don't see them having any this time. I regularly shop at Sainsburys, often couple times a week so I do look for deals.

Sounds like a hopeless goose chase since there were only two left on shelf.

Or you could have this great alternative free forever: https://www.libreoffice.org/

For every activation key added to your account, it adds a Year onto your service!
I buy the keys when needed, from eBay at a heavily discounted price, and I think I'm covered to 2020, and it updates every year to the latest variant of the software!

Great find Op, hopefully nationwide.... :smiley:

Yes Office 365 is a subscription, some people might be able to get a better deal on the Office software buying it as 'Office 2016', especially if you (or friends/family) can get it free or heavily discounted through work, school, uni etc.

The subscriptions aren't bad either though, especially at prices like £12.50 a year (or a penny).

£12.50 for a year of 1TB Onedrive, 60 minutes / month of skype, 1 licence of office desktop and 1 licence for office mobile isn't bad at all.

If it is boxed it will not need activating.

Absolutely. This subscription only lasts a year. Although having just read up on it, I understand that you can add more than one code at a time to extend the subscription further. However I have not tried this myself yet.

Whatever, this is a subscription 'service' so you'll need to renew it after a year
https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msuk/en_GB/cat/Renew-Office-365/categoryID.68131100?icid=Office_Renewal_office_topstripe_03012017 at at least £59.99

There was no activation involved in store... literally a box on the shelf. Activation in this case is online to basically add the code to your MS account so you can download the software.

I have tried to buy these in various Sainsbury before and they never had a clue what to do in terms of activation - never seen one activated at a store - but all the Sainsbury's that I have seen these in they never even knew the price of them when they checked them by scanning and searching their computer systems.

Nice, well done!

No activation by staff, however I have just updated my own subscription adding a year on.. appreciate it seems a bit too good... I was surprised!

Nevermind. I've just read this part.

Not to be a negative Nancy, and I do hope I'm wrong. But don't all subscriptions / cards of this nature scan at 1p until activated manually by the staff?

Was this purchased via the self service scanner, or did the staff on a till actually activate the card as they should?