Looking for guidance in buying MS Office Pro for myself. I've been retired since 2015 when I used A2007 and some A2010. At home I am using a legitimate copy of Office Pro 2003 on Win 7, but of course I have to update to Windows 10 and A2003 won't work.
The costs and perhaps some other aspects seem to have changed since Office 2010 Pro! Everything I am seeing when I search seems ridiculously inexpensive to what we paid at the university where I used to work - even with an academic licence. Why are things so cheap, is there a yearly licence to pay or what?
More Details, Probably Unnecessary, But I Tend to Babble, Sorry
At work I used Access to connect to an Oracle database behind a maintenance management application which I used to manage the work, schedules, estimates, projects, purchasing, warehousing, etc of the trades people and outside contractors of the facilities organization at our university. I used VBA code to create Oracle SQL based on user's choices in various applications - I did not like using linked tables as the fellows who designed the maintenance application used a lot of, well, not very smart decisions made in the past so that ODBC would translate their numeric fields into text. Wonderful bunch of people, though, enjoyed working with them. PT queries were used to run the user developed SQL to retrieve or add/edit data and execute PL/SQL routines. There was a lot more involved with respect to security and data access.
At home, I've used up to Access 2003 for various personal hobby applications and still use these applications today. It would be kind of nice to incorporate the ribbon which I really enjoyed using at work. But I'd really like to install Win 10 on my laptop, so I need to upgrade Access.
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Thank you in advance for any guidance.
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Tim M