CHAPTER SIX

If you want to buy the one-time purchase version, which is called Office Home & Student, it can cost you as much as $150.

Microsoft Office is as its name implies, is writing software for office use. So it includes Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint and other programs, which are not associated with or used for writing.

Do you really need to pay for all these extra programs just to have a word processor to write an article, short story or even a novel? No.