New Version of Windows XP Home Edition

[Guest]

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

 

[Gordon]

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.

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.

 

[Joan Archer]

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

 

[Stan Brown]

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:47:01 -0800 from Sally

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.

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.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

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.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

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.

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.


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Bruce Chambers

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