No word processor/spreadsheet in WinXP?

[John Barnett - MVP]

Notepad should be there and so should wordpad. These are
part and parcel of windows xp. As for Microsoft Works and
a spreadsheet these are not available with XP. These are
individual applications which you purchase seperately.
Windows XP is an operating system, nothing more.
If, before your rebooting problems, you had Microsoft
Works on your system then you should have the Microsoft
Works CD. If this is the case you will need to install
Works yourself.

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>Had comp shop upgrade from ME to XP for second time after
>constant rebooting problems. This time no notepad, works
>or any word processing or spreadsheet programs are on my
>computer. How can I get them back? Use XP CD? (Hate to
>mess it up again... getting expensive!) Thanks.
>.
>

[Harry Ohrn]

Open Office is a free office suite that can open and save files in the Word
and Excel formats. The download is large - around 60MB but it works nicely
with no nags or spyware added.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/ \

If you decide to install the suite just open the Options->Load/Save and set
the Writer program's "Standard File Format" to "Microsoft Word 97/200/XP as
here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/images/writer2.jpg and do the same
for the Calc setting it to Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP. When you run the app
it will work seamlessly with your existing Excel or Word documents.
--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Slomom" > wrote in message
...
> I obviously made a faulty assumption. First upgrade was
> apparently an overlay of XP onto ME; second was clean
> install, so some programs disappeared. Microsoft Works
> was part of a software package with the computer
> purchase. I have the 'Application Recovery' CD but of
> course now it doesn't recognize it as the original
> computer, so won't let me run it. I'll check with HP to
> see if they have a solution; hate to buy another program
> but really need Word and Excel. Thanks to all for your
> prompt replies.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Notepad should be there and so should wordpad. These are
> >part and parcel of windows xp. As for Microsoft Works
> and
> >a spreadsheet these are not available with XP. These are
> >individual applications which you purchase seperately.
> >Windows XP is an operating system, nothing more.
> >If, before your rebooting problems, you had Microsoft
> >Works on your system then you should have the Microsoft
> >Works CD. If this is the case you will need to install
> >Works yourself.
> >
> >Hope this helps
> >
> >John Barnett - MVP
> >Associate Expert
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>Had comp shop upgrade from ME to XP for second time
> after
> >>constant rebooting problems. This time no notepad,
> works
> >>or any word processing or spreadsheet programs are on
> my
> >>computer. How can I get them back? Use XP CD? (Hate to
> >>mess it up again... getting expensive!) Thanks.
> >>.
> >>
> >.
> >