Personal is for 1 account. Family can support 5 accounts.

Why not try office online?

Microsoft Office for Mac is sluggish.
I’ll recommend TS to go for WPS, which is exactly same like Microsoft Office main apps (Words, Excel, PowerPoint), but its smoother. This is free and i’ve been using it for years.

Oh, I see recommends above were all for family, is it cheaper than personal?

Office online and 365 are not the same?

Hmm, wont say no to free stuffs, especially the good ones. Is it legit though, as in safe to use etc etc? Coz I see most people recommend 365 here, not much of others..

Also can you share more of your experience in terms of sluggishness on the 365? I’m using it for basics, nothing professional, more of using outlook, basic words (for contracts and agreements), pdf, and excel..

This post has been edited by dikae: Dec 13 2020, 12:24 PM

Office 365 is subcription, which install locally,
Online just login to microsoft account and use it online...?

can just login online and start using Microsoft officr apps like excel PowerPoint etc, without installing anything?

Is it free?

This post has been edited by dikae: Dec 13 2020, 12:39 PM

I think is free, as long you got microsoft account (just signup for free)...

oh wow...sounds good...seems like there are many free stuffs on office out there...

But if office is free then why people pay for m365 though? hmmm...

This post has been edited by dikae: Dec 13 2020, 01:15 PM

Locally, which mean no need internet,
And all is save on one drive, and must upload to onedrive.
Privacy maybe and pro & con for both version..

WPS is perfectly legit, just that they aren't as big as Microsoft.
Their apps works exactly the same as Microsoft Office.

You can use for free, but if you want advance features developed by WPS, you may pay extras for it. Download it HERE.

I used Excel a lot, and mostly are huge sizes with a lot of formulas in ten pf pages in a single file, which build up from 40MB to 100MB.
Using Microsoft Office for Mac, the launching of file takes quite sometime to load up, which WPS can launch in just than half the time.
To top that of, since its a huge Excel file, the responsiveness when changing some data are sometime bring to app hang while WPS is more workable even though it sometime might experience freezes as well.

The main reason i opted for WPS is the hot keys are same as Microsoft Office for Windows.
Hotkeys for Microsoft Office for Mac are slightly different, hence smtm its very confusing and tend to Stop-and-Think a while when i first used Mac 8 years ago.

You may try it out first since its free before you go for 365 which is a paid subscription.

This post has been edited by eikozai: Dec 14 2020, 12:07 AM

Thanks for sharing..

Thanks! will definitely out WPS, will also get m365 family to compare...since it’s quite cheap anyways...

Let me guess, you were using pirated versions of Office on Windows, lol. No judgments here. You can get cheap versions at Shopee for few bugs, they will work on both PC and Macs, up to 5 computers. Only thing you have to remember not to sync any documents with Cloud Sync as the sellers might have access to them.

You can buy Office annual memberships, but they are costly. Offline versions cost at least 5 or 600 bucks per computer, so shopee might be the better choice.