If I delete the trial version of office is there any other office

[Blake]

I am not sure if I delete the trial version of office, is there any other
office word on the home edition as I use it for writing letters and making
signs, or do I have to buy the upgrade to continue doing letters?

 

[John]

I am not sure if I delete the trial version of office, is there any other
office word on the home edition as I use it for writing letters and making
signs, or do I have to buy the upgrade to continue doing letters?

Blake,
First of all, this is a newsgroup devoted to MS Project. It sounds like
your question would be better placed in a newsgroup dedicated to MS
Office or MS Word. However in an attempt to give you some type of
answer, it depends on what software may have been bundled with your
computer when you bought it. Windows XP Home itself does not include a
word processing application per se. The closest apps for writing very
basic stuff (letters perhaps) are NotePad and WordPad. However these
basic apps are very limited especially for making signs.

John
Project MVP

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Blake,

I would have thought a trial version was just that. When the trial runs
out, you either delete it or buy the full version. Either way, this
newsgroup is specifically for matters dealing with Microsoft Project. I
suggest you try to find a more appropriate newsgroup that deals with Office
problems.

Could you please tell us what led you to chose this newsgroup? We would
really like to know!


Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Blake]

John, thank you, I will now look at renewing the upgrade or upgrade to XP
Pro, again thank you.

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Upgrading to XP Pro won't do anything for you. Windows XP (either home or
pro) is an *operating system* - a core platform that does all the system
level stuff like managing disks and monitors and mice and printers that
makes the computer compute. Programs like Word are *applications* -
programs that run on top of the operating system and do the useful things
you like the computer to do for you, like writing letters or making videos
or playing games. It's unfortunate that MS chose to use the marketing term
"XP" for both Windows XP, the operating system, and Office XP, the suite of
applications that includes Word, Excel etc, because the similar name
confused a lot of people into thinking that one was part of or required the
other. They really are competely different classes of software, totally
separate, and you can happily run Office XP on a Windows 2000 system or
Office 97 on a Windows XP system for example without much difficulty.

If you want to use MS Word without paying the cost of upgrading to the full
Office 2003 package. take a look at MS Works. It's a simplified set of
applications for the home user and it includes MS Word, the same one as with
the full Office suite, as its word processiing component.

 

[Amy]

Hello, a similar question: I have the trial version installed, now my work
has puchased a licence, is there somewhere I can plug in the product key or
do I have to re-install?
Thanks,
Amy

 

[mary ellen]

what was the reply to Amy, I have the same question?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Mary & Amy,

This newsgroup is specifically for matters dealing with Microsoft Project,
which is probably why you have received no reply. I suggest you try to find
a more appropriate newsgroup that deals with Office problems.

Could you please tell us what led you to chose this newsgroup? We would
really like to know!


Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Telboy59]

HI Mike

I find your question strange as from were i sit the group i am in which is
were this post is "Office on Line" and the chossen section is office. Were
are you looking at this post ??

Try this link
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...n-us&mid=38b92469-c261-46d1-87ad-f1132b99a311

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

We are seeing it show up in the Office Project section, the discussion group
for MS Project, the project management software application.