is ms word the same as wordpad?

nelly_2

And is it built in windows xp? cos I cant find it anywhere

cheers

cdbrown

MS Word is part of the Office suite. Wordpad comes with XP and is sort of an upgrade to notepad. Wordpad is usually in
Start-Programs-Accessories-Wordpad

Wordpad cannot save text files as .doc (which is the word format)

sra

No they're not the same.

MS Word is Microsofts main word processing package, It comes as part Of Microsoft Office and I think sometimes with Microsoft Works. A lot of computers come with at least Works thrown in but it's not actually part of XP

If you need to open a Word document up you could try Open Office which can open up a lot of Word docs

You can get Word viewer for free (can't create or edit docs) or a time-limted trial of Office from the MS website, but otherwise you have to pay.

s-j-cooper_2

nelly wrote:

And is it built in windows xp? cos I cant find it anywhere

cheers

Word isn't the same as wordpad. You have to buy it (sometimes it comes pre-installed, but you usually pay a bit extra for that).

Wordpad is part of Windows and is a basic word-processor.

s-j-cooper_2

Works Suite has Word as part of the package. Version 6 has Word 2002:

http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=SWM-WORKS06&af=50

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=148961

nelly_2

right i searched office and it came up with this lot



is it in there somewhere?

moneyuser

Yes, it's the 9th one down, double click on it and see if it opens. If you expand the location bit it will probably be in Start Menu or desktop. Have you checked the Start menu -> All Programs for Microsoft Office 2003?

nelly_2

Excellent I found it thanks chaps.

Have you checked the Start menu -> All Programs for Microsoft Office 2003? <---- that isnt in my start menu for some reason had to search again

moneyuser

nelly wrote:

Excellent I found it thanks chaps.

Have you checked the Start menu -> All Programs for Microsoft Office 2003? <---- that isnt in my start menu for some reason had to search again

Where was it located? On the desktop?

You know you can drag the shortcuts to your start menu or desktop if required.

nelly_2

moneyuser wrote:

Where was it located? On the desktop?

You know you can drag the shortcuts to your start menu or desktop if required.

I dunno mate i just searched again and when it came up i clicked it

didnt know I could drag things like that thanks for the advise