Bruce Chambers

Struggling Studen wrote:
> I upgraded to windows vista and I was informed that Microsoft Word came with
> it... At least Microsoft Office.


Someone lied to you. Never, ever take any computer related advice from
that individual again.

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.


> I can't afford to purchase a new disk for
> microsoft office just so I can work on school work. Where can I get a good
> MSoffice download for free?
>

There is no legitimate free source for downloading Microsoft Office.

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

http://www.openoffice.org/


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Gordon

"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message
news:ulkl%23BflIHA.5084@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
> For the budget-minded (who also don't need most of Word's or Excel's
> specific features), there's the free, open source OpenOffice:
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/

AFAIAA Open office 2.4 will do EVERYTHING that Word and Excel 2002 will do -
they only diverge when you start talking about sharepoint and things like
that in the newer versions....