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Old December 6th 03, 05:47 PM
Ella
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A friend just bought Dell with XP and wants to know where
her Word is. As a novice myself, all I know is that I have
it in my XP.
Where do we look for this to see if she has it ? I thought
all XP had word. Thank you, Ella
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Old December 6th 03, 05:48 PM
Papa
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Word is not part of the Windows operating system, it is an entirely separate
program - and must be purchased separately. Most likely when you purchased
your computer, it came bundled with XP and Word, so you probably concluded
that Word is a part of XP. It is not.

"Ella" wrote in message
...
A friend just bought Dell with XP and wants to know where
her Word is. As a novice myself, all I know is that I have
it in my XP.
Where do we look for this to see if she has it ? I thought
all XP had word. Thank you, Ella



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Old December 6th 03, 05:48 PM
Bruce Chambers
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Greetings --

Neither the Microsoft Office application suite, nor any of its
individual component applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access,
Outlook, etc.), have _ever_ been "part" of *any* Windows operating
system. They are, and always have been, separate applications, that
must be purchased and installed separately.


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"Ella" wrote in message
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A friend just bought Dell with XP and wants to know where
her Word is. As a novice myself, all I know is that I have
it in my XP.
Where do we look for this to see if she has it ? I thought
all XP had word. Thank you, Ella



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Old December 6th 03, 05:48 PM
The Breeze
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Default Word in XP

"Ella" wrote:
A friend just bought Dell with XP and wants to know where
her Word is. As a novice myself, all I know is that I have
it in my XP.
Where do we look for this to see if she has it ? I thought
all XP had word. Thank you, Ella


As others have said, Word is not a part of XP. You can get it as part of
the MS Office suite, or you can buy it as a stand-alone product. It also
comes with the Microsoft Works suite, which is much less expensive than
Office, and not too much more expensive than the stand-alone Word.

-Breeze


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Old December 6th 03, 05:48 PM
Ron Burk
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Where do we look for this to see if she has it ?

OK, ignore all that stuff about "Word is not part of Windows".
We all know what you meant, but were overcome by
waves of pedanticism :-)

The trick is that she may have been sold a word processor
in one of several different ways. When you buy a Dell,
they let you choose whether you want to also buy
additional software. Options include things like:

Wordperfect Office (includes a word processor made
by someone other than Microsoft -- not Word,
but maybe good enough).

Microsoft Office (includes Word).

Microsoft Works (does not include Word, but has
a crippled version of Word that may be good enough)

Microsoft WorkSuite (like Works, but includes Word!)

none of the above (she saved money, but didn't get
a word processor -- you're stuck with the dinky
little WordPad that came with Windows XP).

So, ironically, the easiest place to start to locate
Word on her XP machine may be the invoice
she got from Dell. It should tell you whether she
chose to buy a Microsoft product that happens
to include Microsoft Word.


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Old December 6th 03, 05:48 PM
Papa
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Default Word in XP

It seems to me that this was made abundantly clear already.

"Ron Burk" wrote in message
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Where do we look for this to see if she has it ?


OK, ignore all that stuff about "Word is not part of Windows".
We all know what you meant, but were overcome by
waves of pedanticism :-)

The trick is that she may have been sold a word processor
in one of several different ways. When you buy a Dell,
they let you choose whether you want to also buy
additional software. Options include things like:

Wordperfect Office (includes a word processor made
by someone other than Microsoft -- not Word,
but maybe good enough).

Microsoft Office (includes Word).

Microsoft Works (does not include Word, but has
a crippled version of Word that may be good enough)

Microsoft WorkSuite (like Works, but includes Word!)

none of the above (she saved money, but didn't get
a word processor -- you're stuck with the dinky
little WordPad that came with Windows XP).

So, ironically, the easiest place to start to locate
Word on her XP machine may be the invoice
she got from Dell. It should tell you whether she
chose to buy a Microsoft product that happens
to include Microsoft Word.




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Old December 6th 03, 05:54 PM
rifleman
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"Ron Burk" wrote in message
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Where do we look for this to see if she has it ?


OK, ignore all that stuff about "Word is not part of Windows".
We all know what you meant, but were overcome by
waves of pedanticism :-)

The trick is that she may have been sold a word processor
in one of several different ways. When you buy a Dell,
they let you choose whether you want to also buy
additional software. Options include things like:

Wordperfect Office (includes a word processor made
by someone other than Microsoft -- not Word,
but maybe good enough).

Microsoft Office (includes Word).

Microsoft Works (does not include Word, but has
a crippled version of Word that may be good enough)

Microsoft WorkSuite (like Works, but includes Word!)

none of the above (she saved money, but didn't get
a word processor -- you're stuck with the dinky
little WordPad that came with Windows XP).

So, ironically, the easiest place to start to locate
Word on her XP machine may be the invoice
she got from Dell. It should tell you whether she
chose to buy a Microsoft product that happens
to include Microsoft Word.



What a load of rubbish! The EASIEST way to see if Word is installed is to go
to Start-All Programs and see if there's an icon for Microsoft Word. If
there ain't, then it's 99.99999% probable that Word is NOT installed.


 




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