Does Windows XP home edition have MS word and MS excel ?

S

Sid

I recently bought a laptop with windows xp home edition
already installed. However, I discovered today that it
does not have word or excel installed in the list of
available programs (in the Start menu).

I tried to insert the operating system CD ( Windows XP
Home SP1) but it warned me that I might be installing an
operating system within another operating system (Windows
XP within Windows XP home edition ) on one hard drive
while I was trying to install the operating system

I have two options -either to uninsall the existing
operating system (WIndows XP home edition) and try to see
if I can install WIndows XP (which hopefully contains MS
Word and MS excel) or just go ahead with installing one
operating system within other operating system.

I would like to know if there is an option to install MS
Word and MS excel without having to install a whole
operating system again. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Regards,
Sid
 
R

Rob Schneider

Sid said:
I recently bought a laptop with windows xp home edition
already installed. However, I discovered today that it
does not have word or excel installed in the list of
available programs (in the Start menu).

I tried to insert the operating system CD ( Windows XP
Home SP1) but it warned me that I might be installing an
operating system within another operating system (Windows
XP within Windows XP home edition ) on one hard drive
while I was trying to install the operating system

I have two options -either to uninsall the existing
operating system (WIndows XP home edition) and try to see
if I can install WIndows XP (which hopefully contains MS
Word and MS excel) or just go ahead with installing one
operating system within other operating system.

I would like to know if there is an option to install MS
Word and MS excel without having to install a whole
operating system again. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Regards,
Sid

Word and Excel are not part of Windows XP and can be bought from most
any computer software store. See www.microsoft.com/office and
www.microsoft.com/windows for more information.

Both of the options you offer are not productive. If you uninstall XP
then you have nothing. If you try to intall one operation system
withing another operating system you would have a mess.
 
A

Alex

MS has nothing to do with the Operating System. Microsoft
Office is a separate application that you must buy (And by
the way the complete version is almost $500). If you are a
student in the US you can buy the Teacher/Student Version
for about $119. If you are really on a budget then I
suggest to try out a different office suite like
OpenOffice.org. IT is not the same but you can do almost
everything with this one and best of all it is free. You
can also buy Microsoft Works which has Word, but not
Excell integrated with it.
 
K

Ken Blake

I recently bought a laptop with windows xp home edition
already installed. However, I discovered today that it
does not have word or excel installed in the list of
available programs (in the Start menu).


Correct. See below.

I tried to insert the operating system CD ( Windows XP
Home SP1) but it warned me that I might be installing an
operating system within another operating system (Windows
XP within Windows XP home edition ) on one hard drive
while I was trying to install the operating system

I have two options -either to uninsall the existing
operating system (WIndows XP home edition) and try to see
if I can install WIndows XP (which hopefully contains MS
Word and MS excel) or just go ahead with installing one
operating system within other operating system.


No. Neither of those options will help you. See below.

I would like to know if there is an option to install MS
Word and MS excel without having to install a whole
operating system again. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.


Reinstalling the operating system will not help you at all.
Neither Windows XP, nor any other version of Windows, has ever
come with Word or Excel, or any other application software.
These are components of Microsoft Office, and can be obtained
either by buying Microsoft Office or buying them standalone.

If your previous computer, running Windows 9X, came with these
applications, it wasn't because Windows 9X came with them, it was
because the company who sold it to you chose to bundle them (or
Microsoft Office) as part of the package it sold.
 
B

Bruce Chambers

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

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D

Donald Link

XP Pro or XP Home to not contain any applications that you are trying to
install. You need XP Office Suite of one version or another. OFFICE
 
A

Alex Nichol

Sid said:
I recently bought a laptop with windows xp home edition
already installed. However, I discovered today that it
does not have word or excel installed in the list of
available programs (in the Start menu).

The Operating system Windows (whether XP or earlier) dos not include
these applications - Word, Excel are part of the quite separate
Microsoft Office Applications suite, and you have to buy this
separately. A Home edition machine *might* include the Microsoft Works
suite of 'Home' oriented application, but it is very rare now for makers
to bundle the full Office
 

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