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Microsoft Office Starter
Topic Started: Sep 18 2013, 12:16 PM (547 Views)
Trotsky
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If any of you are using these freebie versions of the Microsoft Office Components and now you cannot open your letters and spreadsheets, just give a holler and I'll post the solution.
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FuzzyO
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There are free versions?
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Delphi51
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Weren't all the early versions free? They weren't protected by codes or anything. I'm still using Office 2000 even though I actually own Office 2003. Every version got bigger and slower. Microsoft must be desperate to use a sneak attack involving people losing their work. This will cause increased business for Open Office.
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There are free versions?
Yes, it called "Microsoft Word Starter 2010" and "Microsoft Excel Starter 2010." They are VERY good. Thing is that I am not quite sure whether it was included on this new computer or I downloaded it last Fall.

Delphi,

The full versions were never free. A friend of mine bought Office '97 and even back then it cost almost $200.
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I'm shocked that they charge so much and again that people pay it. The price to schools was $69. I paid $20 for my Office 2003 as a teacher. Yes, I made a point of telling my students the Open Office story.

I would be interested in the key to unlocking the trial copy they pay stores to install. I uninstall quite a few of those.
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Interesting. On my old XP computer I had MS Office as a 'bootleg' program. It was excellent. When I got my new one it wasn't transferred over. Is there some way I can recover it from my old drive and put it on this one?
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Sep 27 2013, 12:56 PM
Interesting. On my old XP computer I had MS Office as a 'bootleg' program. It was excellent. When I got my new one it wasn't transferred over. Is there some way I can recover it from my old drive and put it on this one?
Just download the free ' OPEN OFFICE' program. Its just as good!
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Sep 27 2013, 12:56 PM
Interesting. On my old XP computer I had MS Office as a 'bootleg' program. It was excellent. When I got my new one it wasn't transferred over. Is there some way I can recover it from my old drive and put it on this one?
In the old days I'd have said yes,
But I'll bet it isn't going to fly anymore. MS has gotten too smart for it.

But I have an old Office 97 OEM disc. I'd have put it on this shiny new computer but it came pre-loaded with WORD STARTER and EXCEL STARTER that to my eyes are at least as good if not better than the old 1997 stuff. (I have no need for OUTLOOK, ACESS, or POWER POINT.)
Had these two programs not shipped with the computer, I'd have followed wildie's recommendation for OPEN OFFICE...free is always best.
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I take it there are no issues with downloading the free OPEN OFFICE?? I am always scared of viruses getting in. I will read up on it. Thanks.
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Sep 28 2013, 02:31 AM
I take it there are no issues with downloading the free OPEN OFFICE?? I am always scared of viruses getting in. I will read up on it. Thanks.
I have been using Open Office since its inception without any problem.

Hackers like to strike at the big boys, like Microsoft. They get more bang for their buck!
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dogleg
Sep 27 2013, 12:56 PM
Interesting. On my old XP computer I had MS Office as a 'bootleg' program. It was excellent. When I got my new one it wasn't transferred over. Is there some way I can recover it from my old drive and put it on this one?
You need the CD you installed it with.

No way to copy programs over.
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Can I change the subject for a minute? I have encountered another problem with settings on my computer. Something inadvertent happened when I was trying to solve my sound problem. Now I can't get anything to flow to my printer. It was working fine. I was familiar with control panel settings on my XP but this one has me confused. Can someone walk me through a reset procedure. On my connected devices I seem to have a hard drive shown where my printer should be. Thanks.
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Sep 28 2013, 05:49 AM
Can I change the subject for a minute? I have encountered another problem with settings on my computer. Something inadvertent happened when I was trying to solve my sound problem. Now I can't get anything to flow to my printer. It was working fine. I was familiar with control panel settings on my XP but this one has me confused. Can someone walk me through a reset procedure. On my connected devices I seem to have a hard drive shown where my printer should be. Thanks.
Is your new computer, Win8? I can't remember?

In Win8, move your mouse arrow to the lower right corner of the screen. The CHARMS will appear. Choose the magnifying glass charm.
Under search type in DEVICE and click settings, just below!
All actions available will appear in the list and you can choose which one suits you!
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Open Office or whatever they call it now, is very good. Not quite as good as MS Office but certainly an amazing bargain. I recall certain problems with pasting pieces of spreadsheets into the word processor and with formatting text to flow around pictures. Of course those may be fixed by now. Compatibility is excellent, too - open your MS Office docs with at and save them in .doc or .xls files that can be opened by MS Office. Many people used to the older MS Office versions with the long standard menu bar prefer Open Office to versions of MS Office after Office 2000 with the ribbon.

I have never heard of any malware from any source affiliated with the Open Source Software movement. There are many people checking things.
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Wildie: Thanks. No luck so far. I follow your steps but can't find my printer anywhere. When I try to print it tells me the printer is off line. When I look for the printer in the devices box and type in its description HP Deskjet 2540 Series. It says no file found. Any idea where I should go from here -except to my bar for a drink? Somehow I did something to make the printer disappear.
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