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Word in XP
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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Word in XP
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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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. Bruce Chambers -- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "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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"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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Word in XP
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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It seems to me that this was made abundantly clear already.
"Ron Burk" wrote in message ... 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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"Ron Burk" wrote in message
... 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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