microsoft word for vista?

tentickles666

hi we have vista (i HATE it lol) and when we bought it we wernt told it didnt come with word etc so we loaded on our old version of works but this doesnt have the proper microsoft word and we are having dificulties as it saves docs in works format instead of word so when we email no one can open them. have tried just changing the file extension but that isnt working so we need word. my question is which one? lol thanks

superscaper

Sounds like any version of Word will do, probably best going for 2007 though. Or cheapest option is to use Openoffice which will have everything you want.

tentickles666

thank you. cheap sounds good lol

they would have told us about not having word im sure if they hadnt been trying to force add on insurances down our throat GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

tentickles666

ooh. would we need to uninstall the old orks we have put on or would they run parallel?

superscaper

You can install openoffice in addition to it. The word processor in Openoffice can open, edit and save Word documents.
http://www.openoffice.org/

rockabilly_spike

why did you ASSUME it came with WORD?
if it wasn't mentioned as part of the package, then its not there.
Office 2007 is approx £100 worth of software.

A lot of manufacturers pre-install stuff like office but don't give you a disc or serial number for it.
so it never actually belongs to you.

loobydoo_2

If you want to save documents with your openoffice software, you can save them as a microsoft word document. That way's safe as then you can open them in "Word" on other computers. Just something that I learnt when I changed to openoffice.

dot111

I'm having the same problem, did a search and found this thread.
So if I install openoffice, will I be able to open and read word documents off my USB stick.
Thanks

BillScarab

dot111 wrote: »

I'm having the same problem, did a search and found this thread.
So if I install openoffice, will I be able to open and read word documents off my USB stick.
Thanks

Yes you will.

If you don't need a full office suite like Openoffice you could also look at Abiword which is a free word processor.

The key thing with Openoffice is to change the defaults so it saves files in the Microsoft formats so you can then open them in Word, Excel etc.

dot111

Installed and working Thanks again

janetmw

Sorry to 'hijack' this thread, but does anyone know if Office 97 will work in Vista? We have the full business edition here (legit) and use all parts of it. It runs happily under XP Home.

Many thanks

Janet