Academic Pricing

The Microsoft Office Suite for Windows and Mac OS is available to students through various vendors at a discounted academic price. You will be purchasing both the installation media as well as licensing for the product.

• Microsoft has various packages that include the core products you will need: Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Below are a few of the Microsoft Office products available as of Fall 2010.

  • PC:
    Office Home and Student 2010
    Includes: Word 2010, Excel 2010, Powerpoint 2010, OneNote 2010.

    Office Home and Business 2010
    Includes: Word 2010, Excel 2010, Outlook 2010, Powerpoint 2010, OneNote 2010.

    Office Standard 2010
    Includes: Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, OneNote 2010, Outlook 2010, Publisher 2010.

    Office Professional 2010
    Includes: Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Outlook 2010, OneNote 2010, Access 2010, and Publisher 2010.

    Office Professional Plus 2010
    Includes: Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, OneNote 2010, Outlook 2010, Publisher 2010, Access 2010, InfoPath 2010, SharePoint Workspace 2010, Communicator 2007 R2.

    Office Professional Academic 2010
    Includes: Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Outlook 2010, OneNote 2010, Publisher 2010, Access 2010.

  • Mac:
    Office 2011 for Mac (Student Select)
    Includes: Excel for Mac 2011, Outlook for Mac 2011, PowerPoint for Mac 2011, Word for Mac 2011.

• Online vendors. (This list is provided as a convenience; there are other educational pricing vendors.):
  • Spartan Bookstore [Managed by Barnes & Noble College]
  • Creation Engine [Creation Engine purchases can be made by any SJSU student residing in the United States.]
  • Academic Superstore
  • Genesis
  • JourneyEd
  • Student Discounts
  • Microsoft

Office Compatibility Pack For Older Versions Of Office

PC Users

Note that the School requires PC users to have Microsoft Office 2007 or newer. The following is for informational purposes only.

If you use older versions of the MS Office applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access (from Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP or Office 2003) you need to install the compatibility pack that lets users open new versions of the associated files (Open XML file formats: docx, xlsx, pptx). Note: The Microsoft site encourages you to install critical and security updates to your PC prior to installing the compatibility pack.

For the compatibility pack and updates visit the MS Office 2007 Compatibility site and the Microsoft Windows Update site. 

MS Office 2007 users may also need Microsoft Office 2007 Save As PDF Add–in (Converts MS Office files to PDF format.)

Mac Users

Note that the School requires Mac users to have Microsoft Office 2008 or newer. The following is for informational purposes only.

Microsoft's Office 2008 for Mac uses the new Open XML file formats (docx, xlsx, pptx). Students using Office 2008 for Mac or newer do not need to install anything extra.

Users running Office 2004 for Mac or older (including Office X for Mac) will need the free Open XML converter to convert docx, pptx, or xlsx files into the older file format. 

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