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[Mary]

I have Vista Home premium and want to add excel, word and powerpoint. What
do I need? Is is an upgrade?

 

[Malke]

I have Vista Home premium and want to add excel, word and powerpoint. What
do I need? Is is an upgrade?

Vista Home Premium is an operating system. Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
are applications, part of the Micosoft Office suite. If you want those
programs, you need to buy MS Office and install it.


Malke

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

You will need to purchase a full version of Microsoft Office available
whereever software and computers are sold. The Teacher and Student Edition
of Office 2007 includes all the Office applications you specified and
retails for $150 with 3 licenses for the home.

 

[Saucy]

I have Vista Home premium and want to add excel, word and powerpoint. What
do I need? Is is an upgrade?

You need cash. Then get your booty down to the local office supply /
computer big box store and get yourself a copy of Microsoft Office Home &
Student 2007 which includes full versions of Word 2007, Excel 2007,
Powerpoint 2007and OneNote 2007.

I'd recommend online shopping, but the systems seem so clogged in some areas
what with the snow and the Christmas rush and so on.

Saucy

 

[Saucy]

You will need to purchase a full version of Microsoft Office available
whereever software and computers are sold. The Teacher and Student Edition
of Office 2007 includes all the Office applications you specified and
retails for $150 with 3 licenses for the home.
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Andre
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My Vista Quickstart Guide:
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I think it's called "Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007" now.

Happy Holidays,
Saucy

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have Vista Home premium and want to add excel, word and powerpoint. What
do I need? Is is an upgrade?

No, you are mixing apples and oranges here.

You are running an operating system called Vista Home Premium. On that
operating system you can run whatever applications you want that are
compatible with it.

There are many (thousands and thousands) choices of applications you
can run. Some of those are made by Microsoft, some by other companies.

Excel, Word, and PowerPoint are three applications that are made by
Microsoft. They are not part of Windows Vista (or any other operating
system) and are not an upgrade to it. They are completely separate
from the operating system, although they can run *on* Vista.

If you want Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, you can buy them, either
individually, or more economically as part of an application Suite
called Microsoft Office. The latest version of Microsoft Office is
Office 2007, but older versions of Office can also run on Vista. If an
older version meets your needs, you can buy it less expensively than
Office 2007.

Alternatively there are other Office Suites that you might want to
consider, such as the less expensive WordPerfect Office, and the free
downloadable OpenOffice. Each of those has programs that do the same
kinds of things as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and are largely
compatible with them.

 

[T&V Seitz]

BEWARE - If you ever plan to use a PDA or smartphone, the MS Office Home &
Student edition DOES NOT include Outlook. And the Mobile Office that runs
on the PDA's etc WILL NOT link with the Vista, only Outlook - ANOTHER RIPOFF
BY MS!!!

Unfortunately I found this out, only after I had purchased and could not
return the Office home & student version.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

How long have you had it and where did you purchase it?
There is a 45 day return period in North America for retail products.
Other regions may have differing policies.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Good point T&V, if the Home & Student Teacher edition does not fit your
needs, then the Standard Edition would be most appropriate, if you already
own an existing version of Office, 97, 2000, XP or 2003, you can upgrade to
2007 versions.

 

[PhilBiker]

BEWARE - If you ever plan to use a PDA or smartphone, the MS Office Home &
Student edition DOES NOT include Outlook. And the Mobile Office that runs
on the PDA's etc WILL NOT link with the Vista, only Outlook - ANOTHER RIPOFF
BY MS!!!

The OP only mentioned Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. However this is a very
good point. Outlook is not included in the new Home & Student verion of
Office 2007. It was part of the "Academic" Student & Teacher's version of
Office 2003.

Outlook 2007 is available as a stand-alone product, and is commonly found
for well under $100 retail, so if someone finds they need to add it later, it
can be done for a good deal less than Office 2007 Pro, which includes Outlook
as well as many other goodies.

I wouldn't call it a "Rip-off", but I find the omission of Outlook 2007 in
the new Student & Home edition to be unfortunate. Outlook is a large part of
the value for Microsoft Office users.

If you are a student, you can take advantage of Microsoft's "Ultimate Steal"
promotion and get your hands on the Ultimate Edition of Office 2007 for less
than the Student & Home version, but it only installs on one PC.

 

[Michael Chare]

You will need to purchase a full version of Microsoft Office available
whereever software and computers are sold. The Teacher and Student Edition
of Office 2007 includes all the Office applications you specified and
retails for $150 with 3 licenses for the home.

But it is nearly 2008 would you buy something that is so near the end of
its sell by date?

Makes you wonder when the next version will come out - and what the price
will be.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have Vista Home premium and want to add excel, word and powerpoint. What
do I need? Is is an upgrade?

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.

If all you need to do is view Office files, there are free viewers
available from Microsoft:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/results.aspx?qu=viewers&av=DCT000

If you need to create and/or edit Office files:

1) Go to store/shop that sells computer software.

2) Purchase the Microsoft Office suite that contains the applications
you need.

3) Return home.

4) Insert installation CD in PC's CD drive and follow the on-screen
prompts and instructions to install application and desired additional
features.

For the budget-minded (who also don't need all of Word's or Excel's
specific features), there's the free, open source OpenOffice:

http://www.openoffice.org/



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[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

"so near the end of its sell by date?"
Office 2007 has a long time to go.
What makes you think it is near the end?

There is no "sell by date" for Office.
support will end some time after it is no longer being sold, but both
are still years away with Office 2007 only being about a year old.

 

[Michael Chare]

"so near the end of its sell by date?"
Office 2007 has a long time to go.
What makes you think it is near the end?

I am just surprised that MS have continued to use the year as part of the
name, like Windows 95. Once you get to the end of the year it has definite
connotations of being old and out of date.

What really frustrates me is that Office 97 does not run to well on Vista.
MS could easily issue a fix package, and I am not inclined to reward them
for not doing this by buying a copy of Office 2007.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Michael;
Office 97 is ancient by technology standards and long past the
lifecycle.
Regardless what vulnerabilities or other issues turn up with Office
97, it is not expected Microsoft will do anything to resolve them.
And this would include performance issues.

You should consider replacing Office 97 with a more recent product,
whether it be from Microsoft or some other source.

 

[BkStCrawler]

Office 97 works great, for me, on Vista. What problems are you having. Also,
if you don't want to spend all that money for the latest MS Office, you
might try Open Office. You can open and save documents in MS Office format.

 

[Mike]

Office 97 works great, for me, on Vista. What problems are you having.
Also, if you don't want to spend all that money for the latest MS Office,
you might try Open Office. You can open and save documents in MS Office
format.

I created a new partition using the built-in Vista disk management system,
and I use True Image 11 with no problems at all.

Go to control panel >administrative tools>computer management>disk
management and right-click on your partition. There will be an option to
shrink it, after which you can create new partitions from the unallocated
space.

Hope this helps