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Chris

I have small business edition xp 2002 -- what is the best/cheapest way to add
these components?
 
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Carey Frisch [MVP]

You'll need to purchase PowerPoint separately
as a "Full Version" and not an "Upgrade Version".

How to Buy
http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/howtobuy/default.mspx

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| I have small business edition xp 2002 -- what is the best/cheapest way to add
| these components?
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

You might be better off purchasing the upgrade to Office 2003 pro as the
cost of adding BOTH Powerpoint and Access to the XP versions (you would need
full versions) would be more expense than the upgrade.

Carey - you forgot the full version of Access which is prohibitively
expensive if purchased as a full standalone version. Upgrade to Office 2003
Pro is the most cost effective method in this case.

This of course, presumes that you are running a supported Windows version
for Office 2003 (Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP-4.)

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After furious head scratching, Carey Frisch [MVP] asked:

| You'll need to purchase PowerPoint separately
| as a "Full Version" and not an "Upgrade Version".
|
| How to Buy
| http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/howtobuy/default.mspx
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|| I have small business edition xp 2002 -- what is the best/cheapest
|| way to add these components?
 
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Echo S

No, that's wrong.

The user can purchase an upgrade version of PPT 2003 to add PPT 2003 to
Office XP Small Business Edition. The link you provided does show Office XP
SBE as an upgrade qualifier for PPT 2003.

What the user *cannot* do is purchase the PPT *2002* (also known as PPT XP)
Upgrade to add PPT to Office XP SBE.

To the original poster -- since you want to add both Access and PowerPoint,
it might be easiest to just purchase the Office 2003 Professional Edition
Upgrade.

The cheapest route, though, is to purchase Access and PPT 2003 Upgrades.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/access/howtobuy/default.mspx lists Office XP
SBE as an upgrade qualifier for Access 2003 Upgrade. So you can purchase the
Access 2003 Upgrade to add Access ($109) and, as explained above, the
PowerPoint 2003 Upgrade to add PowerPoint (also $109)
http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/howtobuy/default.mspx. So that's
a little less expensive than upgrading the whole suite.
 
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