A:Answer$150 (one time) for Home & Student or $50 (Best Buy promo offer) - then $70 PER YEAR for Office 365 Personal.
You can get "just" Excel and Word, ala carte, but it will cost more.
A:AnswerI haven’t used it for that yet but that’s exactly what I bought it for. It’s the only laptop I could find at BestBuy that had a DVD drive so I could create videos and record them onto blank DVDs