If you are not excited out getting an Office subscription and instead you prefer a regular software purchase, the PC download version of the Microsoft Office Home and Business 2016 software package is on sale for around $189 through Amazon.com. The purchase is through them, but the actual download of the software happens through the Microsoft website. Instructions will be given to your by Amazon after you make the purchase. The typical price for this is $200. This version is for one PC only, running Windows 7 or later.

Included are the big three Office packages (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) along with Outlook and Evernote-wannabe OneDrive. Not included in this is Access and Publisher.