Downloaded Office XP 2003 Standard and lost other applications

[Georgew6]

Helloooo. I just downloaded Office XP 2003 Standard. Now I find that I no
longer have, at first look, Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and
who knows what else.

Looking around the various forums it looks like I made a big mistake or
Microsoft did. I bought Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft
Office Professional with the Dell laptop I am using. Therefore, my
downloading the entire Microsoft Office XP Standard may have deleted all my
other applications? I cannot find them on my computer, at any rate. When
I tried to email I got an error message saying that Word was not found and
could not be used as the editor for Outlook. That is what first alerted me to
this situation. I do not recall seeing ANYTHING in the download instructions
warning about this and am baffled.

If the applications are all gone, as I fear, do I delete whatever was
downloaded and reinstall my older office and all applications from my
original discs? Then would I have to update every application since they
are all at least two years old and many updates have come down over the years.

Hope someone has a good answer.

Thanks, George

 

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After furious head scratching, Georgew6 asked:

| Helloooo. I just downloaded Office XP 2003 Standard. Now I find that
| I no longer have, at first look, Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint,
| Publisher, and who knows what else.
|
| Looking around the various forums it looks like I made a big mistake
| or Microsoft did. I bought Microsoft Windows XP Professional and
| Microsoft Office Professional with the Dell laptop I am using.
| Therefore, my downloading the entire Microsoft Office XP Standard may
| have deleted all my other applications? I cannot find them on my
| computer, at any rate. When I tried to email I got an error
| message saying that Word was not found and could not be used as the
| editor for Outlook. That is what first alerted me to this situation.
| I do not recall seeing ANYTHING in the download instructions warning
| about this and am baffled.
|
| If the applications are all gone, as I fear, do I delete whatever was
| downloaded and reinstall my older office and all applications from my
| original discs? Then would I have to update every application since
| they are all at least two years old and many updates have come down
| over the years.
|
| Hope someone has a good answer.
|
| Thanks, George

 

[Peter Foldes]

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