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Posted By : Silent Sybil - 8/19/2006 6:22 PM
I can't seem to get my microsoft word to work. Here's a little bit of what happened.

My boyfriend got a beta version of MicrosoftWord 2007 that still hasn't been released. However, neither of us realized (at the time) that the beta versions expire..... so he deleted our old MW version. I was wondering if there was anything I could do, like re installing MXP or even if there was a download for MW 2006 I could find anywhere. Something affordable because I don't have very much money right now and I can't afford to buy a new CD-ROM for the program.

PLEASE HELP!

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Posted By : Dave - 8/20/2006 10:04 AM
If you don't have the disk to do a re-install of your old version, you're pretty much out of luck.

You COULD get eDonkey or LimeWIre or some other peer to peer software (be leery however, as they often install with spyware) and try to find a pirated copy to download. I wouldn't recommend it though....

Wordpad, the dumbed down word processor that comes with teh OS, can open word documents. That could be one solution until you can scrape up enough to by another version of Word.

Lastly, you could try OpenOffice (www.openoffice.com), the open source office productivity pack by the same folks who made Linux. Supposed to be pretty good, but I've never used it.

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Posted By : Silent Sybil - 8/20/2006 10:29 PM
Thanks for the advice Dave. I'll be sure to look into it and let you know when I have it fixed.

The irony of the world for today is:

A corporate buisness man borrowed fifty cents for sales tax.


Posted By : STForstner - 8/21/2006 3:26 PM
There is another option. Assuming the original software wasn't over written on the hard drive, you might be able to get software to retrieve it. Check Download.com for retrieval software. You might also have luck with something like "ashampoo" (also available for trial at download). I had formatted my wife's hard drive and then later ran ashampoo. Suddenly all those programs that were gone from the formating started showing up. Ashampoo had fixed all the directory listings for them.

Posted By : Silent Sybil - 8/21/2006 4:39 PM
Cool. That sounds great STF. Thank you.

The irony of the world for today is:

A corporate buisness man borrowed fifty cents for sales tax.


Posted By : Dragon Angel - 8/21/2006 6:07 PM
Recommend buying Word Perfect instead of Microsoft Word, if it comes down to that. Word Perfect can open most MSWord documents and it is generally better. :)

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Posted By : Silent Sybil - 8/22/2006 2:23 AM
Hmmm. I may actually do that. And my boyfriend got an email from a friend of his that gave him some advice on something he could do with his documents so that he could access them anywhere. I'll have to ask him but I'll be sure to post it on here in case it's useful to anyone here.

The irony of the world for today is:

A corporate buisness man borrowed fifty cents for sales tax.


Posted By : STForstner - 8/22/2006 11:37 AM
WordPerfect is often available on eBay for under $20.00. It is a complete and powerful program. Just watch the eBay listing because there is WordPerfect and WordPerfect Office.

Posted By : Silent Sybil - 8/22/2006 3:57 PM
Cool cool. I may check that out.

Praise eBay and it's cheapness!!

The irony of the world for today is:

A corporate buisness man borrowed fifty cents for sales tax.

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