Please help!!!

Just purchased new desktop (not this one). I have the Tour of Windows XP.
I just wanted to know if this version only has Wordpad and Notepad. I was
expecting Word to be there too.

I do not have an e-mail address yet on that computer and so cannot use the
help line.

any suggestions

Sally wrote:

Nope. Unless you paid for either Word or Works Suite when you bought the
machine, there is no Word. You must buy it separately.
if you can't afford it, look here:
http://www.openoffice.org

Open Office is a free, fully-functional Office suite that is roughly the
equivalent of MS Office 2002 and so may well suite your needs very well.

--
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

Windows XP is the operating system and that has never come with Word which
is part of the Office suite of applications. If the vendor of your new
machine did not bundle it with the sale you will have to buy it and
install it yourself.
Joan



Sally wrote:

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:47:01 -0800 from Sally
<Sally@discussions.microsoft.com>:
WTF??

Please don't post the same question multiple times -- it's rude, and
it wastes everyone's time, and it will get you ignored when you
really need help.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

Sally wrote:


Neither Windows XP nor any other version of Windows has ever come with Word
nor with any other significant application software.

If you want Word, you need to buy it, either alone, as part of Microsoft
Office, or, most inexpensively, as part of Microsoft Works Suite.

If your previous computer, running an older version of Windows, came with
Word, it was because the vendor who sold it bundled it as part of the
package he sold you, not because that version of Windows came with it. Some,
but not all, vendors do the same with Windows XP.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

Sally wrote:



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.

Microsoft Office comes pre-installed on new computers only when the
computer manufacturer chooses to offer it, and the purchaser is willing
to pay extra for it. If you need Word, you'll have to purchase and
install it.


--

Bruce Chambers

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