They told me to pay toll a few years ago, i ignored it because i thought they were offering an update that i didnt want. Then they blocked access until i paid by DD.
I bought it once , years ago, roughly the price @Dovefromabove mentioned. I think you can add it to 3 "devices" , but I've never been asked to pay anything else since then.
You can pay annually or buy it once for the lifetime of your laptop or whatever ... often when you buy a laptop unless you specify you just get the one year then renew version.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I know it costs a lot to develop software, but "Word" is well over 20 years old now, even with updates I'm sure microsoft could sell it for a lot less and still make a healthy profit.
It wouldn't be so bad if Word were as clever as the software we used to have in the 80s on dedicated word processors, before PCs came in and Windows was just a gleam in Bill Gates' eye. Â
As for grammar, the whole resurrected series of threads began as a rant about "So........" for starting sentences. I get cross about inappropriate use of "I", "me" and "myself" and statements like the "The government are". Government is a single entity with many single entity departments and many multiple employees. Beeb reporters and others should know the difference.
If, like me, you’re a stickler for correct spelling and grammar, avoid the Scope forum pages. You’ll weep.
Advice and advise get to me. For heaven’s sake they are even pronounced differently unlike practise/practice, license/licence etc but I don’t excuse them either.
Just back from a great day at the Malvern Spring Festival so you may think "Why is this in 'Curmudgeon' and not in 'Antidote'. There is one reason, and one reason only, for it being in curmudgeon - those £)%*%^ boxes on wheels. I know people buy a lot, and I don't dispute that the boxes are great when you have a lot. The issues I have are (a) people who insist on dragging the things behind them when they are empty and (b) using them at all in the Floral Marquee. There isn't enough room in the Marquee for the people, let alone the mobile chicanes created by morons who stop to look at the stands and have the box stuck out behind them. There should be a 'box creche' outside the Marquee, and a total ban on taking the £)*$^&£(% things in!
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I think you can add it to 3 "devices" , but I've never been asked to pay anything else since then.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As for grammar, the whole resurrected series of threads began as a rant about "So........" for starting sentences. I get cross about inappropriate use of "I", "me" and "myself" and statements like the "The government are". Government is a single entity with many single entity departments and many multiple employees. Beeb reporters and others should know the difference.
Advice and advise get to me. For heaven’s sake they are even pronounced differently unlike practise/practice, license/licence etc but I don’t excuse them either.
And where has "One of the only..." sprung from? As in "One of the only shops in the village"? Do they mean "One of the few", or "The only"??