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Hi,
I am a very basic user and after rebuilding my computer I can't find word,
excel or PPT. can someone please help me.
Thanks Dan
 
Dan

Have you reinstalled Microsoft Office? Word, Excel and PPT are all
components of Microsoft Office and not part of Windows XP, which is the
computer operating system.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Hi:

If you used an standard CD to rebuilding your system, word, excel, PPT or
any other Office program or application, is sold in a separate CD and not
included in your copy of windows XP.
 
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Hi,
I am a very basic user and after rebuilding my computer I can't find
word,
excel or PPT. can someone please help me.
Thanks Dan
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Go buy them. The Tooth Fairy won't be bringing you MS Office.
 
Hi,
I am a very basic user and after rebuilding my computer I can't find word,
excel or PPT. can someone please help me.
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Did you install them? Assuming that you didn't, that's why you can't
find them. If you thought that they were part of Windows, let me
explain that they are not; they are application programs that can be
bought by themselves or as part of Microsoft Office.
 
Dan said:
Hi,
I am a very basic user and after rebuilding my computer I can't find word,
excel or PPT. can someone please help me.
Thanks Dan
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By "rebuilding," do you mean that you performed a clean installation of
the OS? If so, you'll newed to re-install any other applications from
their respective original media.

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.


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Dan said:
I am a very basic user and after rebuilding my computer I can't
find word, excel or PPT. can someone please help me.
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Did you install them, as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
Powerpoint, Microsoft Windows XP, etc are all seperate products... The
Office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access, etc)
can be bought as a 'suite' - but the Windows XP operating system (all
Windows operating systems that I know of) are sold seperately.

If you ever had a computer with the OS and the applications listed above on
it - someone bought/installed them on there together - it was not a single
install.
 
Here is free alternative to the overly priced MS Office bloatware that
everyone else seems to think you should install
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I just went back to reread all of the other responses to his message,
including my own. Neither I, nor any of the others who replied,
suggested that he *should* do anything of the kind. What we all did
was explain that the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint do *not* come with
Windows, and that *if* he wants then, he needs to install them
separately.

My personal preference, although I didn't mention it in my earlier
response, because it had nothing to do with his question, happens to
be for WordPerfect.
 
Ken

Isn't that an alternative for Word whereas Office contains many other
components exactly which depending on the version of Office you buy. Can
you buy Word Perfect as part of a package?


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Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Ken

Isn't that an alternative for Word whereas Office contains many other
components exactly which depending on the version of Office you buy. Can
you buy Word Perfect as part of a package?
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I'm not sure I completely understand your question, Gerry, but
WordPerfect (the word processing program) is part of an Office suite
called Corel WordPerfect Office. The current version is called X3
(it's the successor to version 12; apparently someone was afraid to
use the "unlucky" number 13).

The suite comes with WordPerfect itself, and also a spreadsheet
program, database, presentation program, etc., much as does Microsoft
Office.

Since I greatly prefer WordPerfect to Word, I don't think of
WordPerfect as an alternative to Word, but I rather think of Word as
an inferior alternative to WordPerfect.

However, regarding the other products in the two suites, I generally
prefer the Microsoft choices: Excel to Corel Quattro Pro, PowerPoint
to Corel Presentations, etc. Although I have the complete WordPerfect
Office Suite, I actually use nothing but the flagship product,
WordPerfect, itself, and use the Microsoft alternatives for the other
uses.

If that doesn't completely answer your question, I'd be happy to
answer further questions, but may I suggest that you write to me by
private E-mail rather than continuing such a dramatically off-topic
thread here. I mentioned WordPerfect below only to point out that
rather than recommending what Xandros called "the overly priced MS
Office bloatware," my personal preference was entirely different.
 
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