Where is MS word?

[Calvin Hobbes]

i recently had to to do a system recovery for my laptop, i reinstalled windows and apps, and somehow no word proccessor is present, and i cant find it anywhere on CD they gave me, anyone out there know what to do? using Windows Xp home edition

[Stryker]

MS Word is part of the MS Office suite... did you install that?
You can get it seperately but it generally is installed with the rest of the Office suite. Do you have Excel, Power Point, Access, etc...? They are also part of Office.

[Calvin Hobbes]

no i dont, and i have no CD that has it, i only have floppys for my old desktop, but the laptop doesnt have floppy drive

[Calvin Hobbes]

i can check my CD's again when i get home from school, but im pretty sure i couldnt find one with it on there, ill let ya know

[Stryker]

If it's not on the resotre CD and you don't have the Office/Word CD, then there aren't really too many options (unforutunately).

How was it installed (or was it installed at all) on your system originally (i.e. before your recovery)?

[RJ]

As said, Word is part of Office, not Windows. You won't find it on your Windows CD (unless it's a special recovery CD that says it has office, or word, on it).

RJ

[Calvin Hobbes]

Ok then that settles it lol, i lost office when i did the recovery, #$%#^#$, thanks for the help

[Calvin Hobbes]

Office was on it when i bought it, so, i dont really think there is anything i can do now

[Calvin Hobbes]

unless, could i put the floppy form of office on a USB storage and install it that way?

[glc]

Windows has Wordpad - this is a usable basic word processor. You can also download Open Office, it's free and Word-compatible.

[Stryker]

Originally Posted by Calvin Hobbes unless, could i put the floppy form of office on a USB storage and install it that way?

Are you sure the floppy disks you have are actually office? There must be 20 disks at 1.44MB each!! The install files are relatively large for Office, or even just Word. Not to say that it isn't what you are saying it is, I just don't think I have ever heard of Office coming on anything other than CDs.

By the way, as a side note: instead of posting 2 or 3 posts in a row, there is an "Edit" button in your posts to allow you to add to one if you need to give more info. This way the thread won't grow so fast making it harder to follow.
Thanks.

Edit: very true glc... and as far as I know, Wordpad is compatible with MS Word when you save in .rtf (Rich Text Format). A very good alternative that should already be installed with Windows.

[RJ]

I just don't think I have ever heard of Office coming on anything other than CDs.

I've seen it. It was the prececessor of Office 97, I think it was V6. It came on many floppies, if I remember correctly every program (word, excel, etc.) came on more than 10 floppies.

But that Version is very old, and was designed for Windows 3.11, so it doesn't support long filenames, for example.

RJ

[Calvin Hobbes]

24 disks to be exact actually, my mom bought it a long time ago

[sdkfz]

Assuming that you do want Word back, are you a student or do you have kids who are? If so then you qualify for the Student Teacher version of Office that is much less expensive than even the regular version and cheaper than the stand alone Word package.

It contains Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook, full versions, fully supported by MS, the catch is it does not qualify for the next version as an upgrade from product, but it is chepaer than the upgrade of standard office anyway so who cares? . Newegg price 126.00 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...116-136&depa=6 vs regular version at 170.00

I you do not need Excel, Powerpoint etc. and only want Word then a great price for it is MS Works, it has Word as a component of the suite, but the rest of the 'office' is pretty basic. But Newegg has it for 43.00.

[Panama Red]

Keep in mind too that the Student and Teacher version of MS Office can be installed on up to 3 computers - legally. Also note that the 2003 version is only compatible with XP and Windows 2K.

[Calvin Hobbes]

i would prefer that i would not have to buy it again, because my brother just professional and i was going to upgrade the old one

[Calvin Hobbes]

class just ended gotta go

[mairving]

I still have Office 95 Standard Edition on floppies. There are 25 floppies that I have. Not totally sure if it will work with 2K or XP. For sure you won't be able to get any updates.