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XP to Vista
"Barb" wrote in message
... XP to Vista--My DOC files will not open in Vista after transferring from my previous XP PC. Have you installed Office on your new machine? |
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XP to Vista
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:49:03 -0700, Barb
wrote: XP to Vista--My DOC files will not open in Vista after transferring from my previous XP PC. Doc files are Microsoft Word documents. Vista is an operating system, and Microsoft Word is an application. Neither one of those is part of the other. Unless you (or the vendor you bought the computer from) installed Microsoft Word on your Vista computer, there should be no surprise that you can't open them. No version of Windows has ever included Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, or any other significant application software. Such programs have to be bought, either by themselves or as part of Microsoft Office. If your previous computer, running Windows XP, came with Word, it was because the vendor who sold it bundled it as part of the package he sold you, not because that version of Windows came with it. Some, but not all, vendors do the same with Windows Vista. So if you want Word, you need to buy it, either by itself or as part of Office. The current version is Office 2007, but you may be able to find an older version available less expensively. Alternatively you might want to try "compatible" (recognizing that compatibility is never perfect) software like the free OpenOffice, or the less expensive Corel WordPerfect Office. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |