Microsoft Office Home & Business 2021 | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook | One-time purchase for 1 PC or Mac | Instant Download

Microsoft wants everyone to subscribe to their online version of Office “on the cloud,” but I still prefer this buy once and use forever format they still offer. Excel is the most useful product ever, but Word and PowerPoint are OK. I like Thunderbird better than Outlook. This Office suite was once highly recommended, but now you should get a more recent version (2024 or later).

I read the complaints before buying this. The complaint is 365 which this isn't. Office 365 is what you see when you install it. But when you click on Account for each app it says 2021. I had the 365 subscription and these apps are not this. This Outlook looks more like my 2013 Outlook except dark mode is an option. I also have 2016. But 2016 does not come with Outlook. I've only installed 2021 for less than a week, for both Windows 10 and Windows 11, on the same computer, on separate SSD's. I used my 2013 pst file for the 2021 which works fine. And no this did not reactivate my 365 subscription. This 2021 Outlook is labeled "Outlook (classic)". The reason for why I mentioned this is there is a free Outlook from Microsoft Store. When installed it is labeled "Outlook (new)", and operates completely different. It is a terminal, like accessing your email from a browser.Why I got 2021 was I'm crashing my 2013 Onenote after I wrote to the Notebook from a newer version of Onenote from another computer (which has default Office). The "Onenote for Windows 10" caused no problem. But it lacks functionality. So I downloaded the free "Microsoft Onenote" from Microsoft Store which has the same functionality as the 2013. I believe that updated the Notebook to make it incompatible with the 2013 version. But when I install the "Microsoft Onenote" to fix my 2013 Onenote the install uninstalls 2013 and I lose Outlook.All this is done under my Microsoft account. The reason why I mention this is some of the complaints come from users that did not use a Microsoft account.

... finally connected to the down load screen, some four hours later. Like all Microsoft products one has to relearn a new interface and different ways of doing what one learned hacking with prior version(s). I'm not going to elaborate, I think most are familiar with the Microsoft death march. I am still configuring Windows and Office to the way I work. There was considerable critical software that arrived DOA to the Windows 11 environment. My tough luck... So it goes. Managed to install two of the office apps, registered with MS, and all that crap. Installed two apps, figured I would go back and install another... but cannot.. all I get are ads for Office 365, which is what office 2021 turns out to be anyway. Anyway Windows 11 killed a lot of my critical software and barred me from reinstalling. I disabled windows defender, so instead of popup warnings all I get is dead air. Again my tough luck.I was doing great with Office 2016 everything worked, then came the crash of 2024, a new computer, and the coercive upgrade to Windows 11. What a bunch of scat. Paid the money, tried to down load the product Office business 2021. All I got is some vague references to office 365 never saw any thing about Office 2021 (as advertised on Amazon). Do not agree with microscam's (and others) subscription business model, just another name for money pit. I want a clean stand alone product. Reason is simple I can use it when the net is down (which has happened more recently) . I have a lot of sweat equity tied up in Word docs, my tough luck. Online support, Nothing but a cyber run around. Comes off as a bait and switch scam. I will try our attorney general and see if there is a remedy. The other commentator here is right they are not incompetent , but they do it on purpose. As for Amazon no option for refund, another bad business plan. Seems there is a lot agreement at this end of scale.

Microsoft Office Home & Business 2021 contains the classic versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It does NOT contain Microsoft Access or Publisher, which you will have to buy separately. This item is not a disc in a box. What you receive is a digital code so you can download it instantly. I love that this is a one-time purchase! No need to sign up for a silly subscription! I installed it on my new ASUS Vivobook 17″ Laptop with no problem and everything works great.

I decided to buy a one-time license key with a more current version of Office for a new machine I'd set up. It went pretty smoothly until once, installed, I selected the app with Outlook (new) beside it. There was no option for choosing the .PST file on my new hard drive--the one with all my contacts, calendars, settings etc. It said the only way to use an existing file was to have a 365 subscription. I had a few choice words over that.Fortunately, I figured out I could uninstall the app called Outlook (new) and choose the other Outlook app. (Anyone remember New Coke that launched and went away? Yep. Outlook (new) is about like that in my opinion.) When I installed the regular Outlook, it immediately populated with the data from .PST file I'd copied to my hard drive. I got maybe two prompts for a PW--one for two different emails I use that are associated with my business account.