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Which Microsoft office is everyone using at work?

26 replies

romany4 · 22/05/2019 11:38

I'm looking at changing jobs. Reception or admin type of jobs.
I did business admin courses years ago (Office 2007) but obviously time has moved on.jobs

What is the most used Office now? I'm looking to buy it and update myself before I start applying for jobs

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Karmin · 22/05/2019 11:49

2013 - local government

Violetroselily · 22/05/2019 12:41

I work at one of the big banks and we use 2016

allnewredfairy · 22/05/2019 12:56

University 2016

bliminy · 22/05/2019 13:01

Most of the companies I work with now use Office 365, but they tend to be smaller companies.

Pigeonpies · 22/05/2019 13:11

Office 365 will be the way forward

Rollerbird · 22/05/2019 13:13

updating from 7 to 10

TomSmitten · 22/05/2019 13:16

We use 365.

BrillyPribble · 22/05/2019 13:17

We don't use office at all, we use the google equivalent. Took some getting used to!

ArgyMargy · 22/05/2019 13:22

@Rollerbird you may be thinking of Windows rather than Office?

NCFORLEG · 22/05/2019 13:23

Work in a charity and we use 365

NCFORLEG · 22/05/2019 13:24

For a*

Rollerbird · 22/05/2019 13:24

Durr
Probably! 😁

weebarra · 22/05/2019 13:25

Public sector - 365

Userplusnumbers · 22/05/2019 13:26

Office 365 - huge company, 40K employees across 9 countries

tisonlymeagain · 22/05/2019 13:27

Office 365

PeachMoon · 22/05/2019 13:30

Get Office 365 - you can do a monthly subscription that you can cancel anytime - if you just want to use it for a few weeks to brush up, rather than having to pay full price for it.

RezCowgirl · 22/05/2019 14:12

University - 365

MrsWombat · 22/05/2019 16:34

Job 1 - admin in a school - Office 2016
Job 2 - VA for a small business - 365

At home, the pre-teen and I both work from the cloud with google drive.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 22/05/2019 16:36

Central government - 365

pink412 · 22/05/2019 16:39

Office 365 and GSuite Docs depends

SenecaFalls · 22/05/2019 16:42

I'm in the US; we use 2016.

Original poster
romany4 · 22/05/2019 17:00

Thanks everyone.
Going to buy 365 and see how I go

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ICanTuckMyBoobsInMyPockets · 22/05/2019 18:50

If you were pretty competent on it before, I don't think you'll need to bother.

It hasn't changed that much and you can Google anything you don't know. "How do I split a table in Word 365?"

IWouldPreferNotTo · 22/05/2019 18:56

Office 365 is definitely the way to go.

While not a huge amount has changed the keyword searching on CVs will be looking for Office 2016 & Office 365.

It's also worth acquainting yourself with SharePoint as the days of a shared drive of documents is dead in well managed companies and while SharePoint is definitely not the best option a lot of firms are using it.

bliminy · 22/05/2019 19:02

Oh yes, definitely learn a bit about Sharepoint - probably worth just watching some YouTube videos about Microsoft Teams too.

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