vista home premium and excel?

[jas1002]

Could you please tell me if this system has word and excel on it? It looks to me as if you only get 60 days trial. Not sure what good this would be to anyone!

[Jugglering]

My new pc (Vista home premium too) also came with this free trial for 60 days - they are hoping you start to use it and then want it....... However, you may have MS Works already installed (I have) - just click on the Windows circle (bottom left of your screen), then on *All Programs*, scroll down to see if you have Microsoft Works - this has a word processor and a spreadsheet (plus other stuff), so unless you really want Word and Excel, Works should be ok for home stuff.

[vehelpfulguy]

Vista Home Premium is an operating system and DOES NOT include Word or Excel.

Microsoft Office includes Word and Excel, and some computer companies pre-install a Microsoft Office 60 day trial version on a new PC.

As has been said, the 60 day trial is put there in the hope that you will enjoy using it so much you will buy the full product.

[ACtheTROLL]

It's just a trial ... MS operating sytems come with notepad, wordpad and a calculator

if you are lucky .... you might get a full copy of works as a freebie from the PC manufacturer

I suppose if you were very young and stayed in a lot you could just about write your life story.

Otherwise it just guarantees that as soon as you get your system it's already clogged with cr@p

[jas1002]

Thanks -

It's for my Dad that I'm asking. He needs to do some of his work at home and needs something with excel and word on it. He was going to get a laptop. Does he need to buy these as stand alone programs then? or does anyone know if they come inclusive anywhere?

Cheers

[figure]

Download and install Openoffice. In my opinion it's better than MS Word and has everything. Why buy MS Word when you could get a better alternative for free?

Click on "Download latest version" save to desktop and then install - http://filehippo.com/download_openoffice/

http://filehippo.com/

[jas1002]

Thanks figure but would that be compatible with word/excel as he needs to move files from one computer to the other?

I told him that he should get work to provide him with one but as he now only works part time He doesn't want to get to involved with working any thing extra unless it's on his terms!!!

[rojash]

OpenOffice is compatible with Word and Excel. It will allow your dad to open and edit existing Word and Excel documents.
If he needs to create Word and Excel documents for distribution to others, after installing OpenOffice, he just needs to do the following:
Run the program
Click Tools/Options from the main menu
Click the Plus next to "Load/Save"
Click on "General"
I
n the Right-hand pane, click on the "Document Type" dropdown and select "Text Document"
Click on the "Always save as" dropdown and select "Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP"

Repeat the above two instructions but this time selecting "Spreadsheet" in the first dropdown nad "Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP" in the second

Click OK

This will ensure that any new documents he creates can be read by his colleagues.

[vehelpfulguy]

If he really wants Word and Excel then get him to buy the Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition for about �80.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Office-2007- Student-Licence/dp/B000HCZ8EO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UT F8&s=software&qid=1209891679&sr=8-1

This contains Word and Excel plus two other aplicaitons.

A single license entitles him to install it on 3 PCs as well.

[ACtheTROLL]

if it's for home use ... I'd say open office (so many people own ... but so few people actually use office (which costs a pretty penny)

but for work ... while compatibility SHOULDN'T be a problem ... if there is ... you (your dad) has no comeback.

rather than applying officially ...get him to talk to whoever does the IT stuff ... often it's cheaper to buy a 10 licence pack than 8 individual copies ... so it's not unusual for companies to have a spare licence or two going spare.