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When I search for a file or folder a message appears to download office 2000
or insert disc. I thought I always had 2000 with 98 windows and now XP. I
don't have a office disc. Thank you.
 
aldown said:
When I search for a file or folder a message appears to download office 2000
or insert disc. I thought I always had 2000 with 98 windows and now XP. I
don't have a office disc. Thank you.
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If you have had Office 2000 installed on your computers, then you would
have had to have possessed, at one time, at least, the appropriate
installation CD.

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.


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Bruce said:
If you have had Office 2000 installed on your computers, then you
would have had to have possessed, at one time, at least, the appropriate
installation CD.

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.
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Not *quite* true Bruce - the vendor of the computer could have bundled
Office in with the OS......
 
Gordon said:
Not *quite* true Bruce - the vendor of the computer could have bundled
Office in with the OS......
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It's completely true. Had Office been bundled with the PC by the OEM,
the purchaser would have paid extra for it.

Even so, there still would have had to have been a means for the
computer owner to re-install, if necessary. The OEM Office CDs would
have been included with the rest of the computer's documentation and CDs.


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Bruce said:
It's completely true. Had Office been bundled with the PC by the
OEM, the purchaser would have paid extra for it.
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But he might not have REALISED he was paying extra.....;-)
 
Gordon said:
But he might not have REALISED he was paying extra.....;-)
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I suppose that's within the realm of possibility, but it'd take an
awfully oblivious consumer to purchase something without first knowing
what he was buying. How could he subsequently determine that he got
what he paid for? And that doesn't alter the fact that Office has never
been part of Windows.


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Bruce said:
And that doesn't alter the fact that Office has never
been part of Windows.
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yes I realise that, but a lot of people don't because Office has been
bundled with their OS....look at the numbers of posts that start "I had
Office on my W98 machine, bought a new XP machine, where is Office?" etc
etc!
I also suspect that most people who ask this bought their machine at PC
World (in UK) or Walmart in USA!
 
Amazing, too, how many think that upgrading to XP Pro will get them the full
Office suite..

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