Word in XP

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Ella

A friend just bought Dell with XP and wants to know where
her Word is. As a novice myself, all I know is that I have
it in my XP.
Where do we look for this to see if she has it ? I thought
all XP had word. Thank you, Ella
 
Microsoft XP Home & Pro have Wordpad which is a very
basic word processor, it does not come with XP by itself.

If you have Word then it was either already installed, or
part of a suite e.g. XP Office, Works, or stand alone
Word.

If your friend did not specify a productivity package,
she will have to install her copy of Word from her other
PC, or buy a new version.
 
Word is not part of the Windows operating system, it is an entirely separate
program - and must be purchased separately. Most likely when you purchased
your computer, it came bundled with XP and Word, so you probably concluded
that Word is a part of XP. It is not.
 
Hi Ella,
I hope you are well today.
I've just aquired a computer too(second hand but good
value.
I think if she could try to start the computer and check
the programs then she may have it there or else she may
need to get office XP which she will have to buy from a
shop selling computer software.
When you get this CD it will have Word XP,ExcelXP,
AccessXP, and any other programs. She will then take a few
minutes to load this onto her computer.
I hope i was of a little assistance.
Bye for now and good luck.
Zahra
 
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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Ella said:
A friend just bought Dell with XP and wants to know where
her Word is. As a novice myself, all I know is that I have
it in my XP.
Where do we look for this to see if she has it ? I thought
all XP had word. Thank you, Ella
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As others have said, Word is not a part of XP. You can get it as part of
the MS Office suite, or you can buy it as a stand-alone product. It also
comes with the Microsoft Works suite, which is much less expensive than
Office, and not too much more expensive than the stand-alone Word.

-Breeze
 
Where do we look for this to see if she has it ?

OK, ignore all that stuff about "Word is not part of Windows".
We all know what you meant, but were overcome by
waves of pedanticism :-)

The trick is that she may have been sold a word processor
in one of several different ways. When you buy a Dell,
they let you choose whether you want to also buy
additional software. Options include things like:

Wordperfect Office (includes a word processor made
by someone other than Microsoft -- not Word,
but maybe good enough).

Microsoft Office (includes Word).

Microsoft Works (does not include Word, but has
a crippled version of Word that may be good enough)

Microsoft WorkSuite (like Works, but includes Word!)

none of the above (she saved money, but didn't get
a word processor -- you're stuck with the dinky
little WordPad that came with Windows XP).

So, ironically, the easiest place to start to locate
Word on her XP machine may be the invoice
she got from Dell. It should tell you whether she
chose to buy a Microsoft product that happens
to include Microsoft Word.
 
-----Original Message-----
A friend just bought Dell with XP and wants to know where
her Word is. As a novice myself, all I know is that I have
it in my XP.
Where do we look for this to see if she has it ? I thought
all XP had word. Thank you, Ella
.
If she clicks open "all programs" there should be a
Click to expand...
place that says word perfect.
 
Wrong. XP does not include Word, Word Perfect, income tax programs, the
Encyclopedia Britannica, how to install drywall, your Grandmothers old
recipes, etc., etc, etc.. It is an operating system, period. Read the other
posts in this thread.
 
Ron Burk said:
OK, ignore all that stuff about "Word is not part of Windows".
We all know what you meant, but were overcome by
waves of pedanticism :-)

The trick is that she may have been sold a word processor
in one of several different ways. When you buy a Dell,
they let you choose whether you want to also buy
additional software. Options include things like:

Wordperfect Office (includes a word processor made
by someone other than Microsoft -- not Word,
but maybe good enough).

Microsoft Office (includes Word).

Microsoft Works (does not include Word, but has
a crippled version of Word that may be good enough)

Microsoft WorkSuite (like Works, but includes Word!)

none of the above (she saved money, but didn't get
a word processor -- you're stuck with the dinky
little WordPad that came with Windows XP).

So, ironically, the easiest place to start to locate
Word on her XP machine may be the invoice
she got from Dell. It should tell you whether she
chose to buy a Microsoft product that happens
to include Microsoft Word.
Click to expand...

What a load of rubbish! The EASIEST way to see if Word is installed is to go
to Start-All Programs and see if there's an icon for Microsoft Word. If
there ain't, then it's 99.99999% probable that Word is NOT installed.
 
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