Completely understand you. Subscription prices are astronomical right now, as if office were made of gold. I had a similar situation when it was time to renew my family plan. I looked at the price tag and realized it was too expensive for a regular set of programs. My colleague had the same problem last year, but he didn’t pay the inflated price. He simply found a decent office activator that now supports all the latest versions. Now he has Word and Excel running at full capacity, no annoying license expiration windows, and all cloud features available.