Vista - word and excel documents in Vista?

Can't seem to open word or excel documents in vista either in my E-mail or
external drive? Please help!
Tom

"Roon5" <Roon5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can't seem to open word or excel documents in vista either in my E-mail or
> external drive? Please help!
> Tom

May seem like an obvious question, but did you install Word and Excel on your Vista machine?
Vista is an Operating System and does not include Word or Excel.

Can you open Word or Excel and open the documents? If so, you might check to
see if you can right click and select "Open With..." and select the
appropriate program and check "Always use this program".

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"Roon5" <Roon5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can't seem to open word or excel documents in vista either in my E-mail or
> external drive? Please help!
> Tom

I just downloaded word viewer & Excel viewer. Will Microsoft charge me to
actually download word & excel?
Thank You
Tommy

"Richard in AZ" wrote:

>
> "Roon5" <Roon5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news0E9DBF2-D16A-4C9A-B5F0-0BE915CDD712@microsoft.com...
> > Can't seem to open word or excel documents in vista either in my E-mail or
> > external drive? Please help!
> > Tom
>
> May seem like an obvious question, but did you install Word and Excel on your Vista machine?
> Vista is an Operating System and does not include Word or Excel.
>
>
>

"Roon5" <Roon5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can't seem to open word or excel documents in vista either in my E-mail or
> external drive? Please help!

Are you trying to open then via their file extension association (i.e. by
double-clicking them) or within Word / Excel by File, Open on the menu...?

Roon5 wrote:
> I just downloaded word viewer & Excel viewer. Will Microsoft charge me to
> actually download word & excel?
> Thank You
> Tommy
>
> "Richard in AZ" wrote:
>
>> "Roon5" <Roon5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news0E9DBF2-D16A-4C9A-B5F0-0BE915CDD712@microsoft.com...
>>> Can't seem to open word or excel documents in vista either in my E-mail or
>>> external drive? Please help!
>>> Tom
>> May seem like an obvious question, but did you install Word and Excel on your Vista machine?
>> Vista is an Operating System and does not include Word or Excel.
>>
>>
>>

Word and Excel are separate programs although they are part of MS
Office. They have never been available for download for free. You can
purchase Word and Excel separately from Office.

If you don't wish to purchase the programs, you can download and install
OpenOffice from www.openoffice.org which can read and save in earlier
Office formats.


Malke
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Word and Excel are commercial programs.They are not free.

HTH

"Roon5" <Roon5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just downloaded word viewer & Excel viewer. Will Microsoft charge me to
> actually download word & excel?
> Thank You
> Tommy
>
> "Richard in AZ" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Roon5" <Roon5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news0E9DBF2-D16A-4C9A-B5F0-0BE915CDD712@microsoft.com...
>> > Can't seem to open word or excel documents in vista either in my E-mail
>> > or
>> > external drive? Please help!
>> > Tom
>>
>> May seem like an obvious question, but did you install Word and Excel on
>> your Vista machine?
>> Vista is an Operating System and does not include Word or Excel.
>>
>>
>>

"Roon5" <Roon5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

>I just downloaded word viewer & Excel viewer. Will Microsoft charge me to
> actually download word & excel?

If all you need to do is look at the files then the viewers will be enough.
Word and Excel are not free (you have to pay for them) and they're not
really downloadable--unless you have huge bandwidth and a lot of time.

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