Vista Tutorial - Office 2003 - 2007

I enjoy my retirement and just use the computer for fun. I am disappointed
that Outlook is not installed on my Vista Home Premium and I can't look at
pictures on PowerPoint. Do I need Office or is there something else I should
be looking at.

Hi
Seems like you need to get a third party powerpoint viewer or indeed
install office with powerpoint included,hope this helps

"vals1947" <vals1947@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I enjoy my retirement and just use the computer for fun. I am disappointed
> that Outlook is not installed on my Vista Home Premium and I can't look at
> pictures on PowerPoint. Do I need Office or is there something else I
> should
> be looking at.

Yes, you would need Office to have Outlook and Powerpoint. An alternative to
PowerPoint (not sure if it has an Outlook client) is part of OpenOffice, a
free alternative to MS Office.

Although, Office 2007 was released the same time as Vista and works great
with it.

--
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com

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"vals1947" <vals1947@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:469CA8C5-79B3-41A0-96BB-24B0C52A3899@microsoft.com...
>I enjoy my retirement and just use the computer for fun. I am disappointed
> that Outlook is not installed on my Vista Home Premium and I can't look at
> pictures on PowerPoint. Do I need Office or is there something else I
> should
> be looking at.

You can use Power Point Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en





"vals1947" <vals1947@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:469CA8C5-79B3-41A0-96BB-24B0C52A3899@microsoft.com...
>I enjoy my retirement and just use the computer for fun. I am disappointed
> that Outlook is not installed on my Vista Home Premium and I can't look at
> pictures on PowerPoint. Do I need Office or is there something else I
> should
> be looking at.

I will give it a try! Thanks

"RonK" wrote:

> You can use Power Point Viewer:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
>
>
>
>
> "vals1947" <vals1947@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:469CA8C5-79B3-41A0-96BB-24B0C52A3899@microsoft.com...
> >I enjoy my retirement and just use the computer for fun. I am disappointed
> > that Outlook is not installed on my Vista Home Premium and I can't look at
> > pictures on PowerPoint. Do I need Office or is there something else I
> > should
> > be looking at.
>
>

I will consider this too!

"Robert Johnson" wrote:

> Hi
> Seems like you need to get a third party powerpoint viewer or indeed
> install office with powerpoint included,hope this helps
>
> "vals1947" <vals1947@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:469CA8C5-79B3-41A0-96BB-24B0C52A3899@microsoft.com...
> >I enjoy my retirement and just use the computer for fun. I am disappointed
> > that Outlook is not installed on my Vista Home Premium and I can't look at
> > pictures on PowerPoint. Do I need Office or is there something else I
> > should
> > be looking at.
>
>

There should be a mail program installed that is more powerful than
Outlook Express, which is what came with XP, for example. You
have always had to buy Office to get the full blown Outlook. Since
I have Office 2007, I haven't looked at the included mail program,
and don't any more than I have read.

-- Larry Maturo

"vals1947" <vals1947@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:469CA8C5-79B3-41A0-96BB-24B0C52A3899@microsoft.com...
>I enjoy my retirement and just use the computer for fun. I am disappointed
> that Outlook is not installed on my Vista Home Premium and I can't look at
> pictures on PowerPoint. Do I need Office or is there something else I
> should
> be looking at.

"vals1947" <vals1947@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:469CA8C5-79B3-41A0-96BB-24B0C52A3899@microsoft.com...
>I enjoy my retirement and just use the computer for fun. I am disappointed
> that Outlook is not installed on my Vista Home Premium and I can't look at
> pictures on PowerPoint. Do I need Office or is there something else I
> should
> be looking at.

Office has never come included with a Microsoft operating system.
You can however use Windows Mail which is installed on Vista as an
alternative email program. Windows Mail is the new outlook express.

On 21-Mar-2007, =?Utf-8?B?dmFsczE5NDc=?=
<vals1947@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Do I need Office or is there something else I should
> be looking at.

If you don't want to spend the buck$ for Office 2007, take a look at
OpenOffice. They make an excellent, Office compatible suite for free.

You can get it at http://www.openoffice.org/

It runs on XP or Vista and there are OSX and Linux versions available as
well.

Office 2007 Home and Student edition is available for $150 and can be
installed on up to 3 computers. It comes with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and
OneNote but unfortunately, not Outlook. Outlook by itself is about $110.
Combined with the free PowerPoint viewer, this may get you what you want.

The least expensive suite that includes Outlook is
"vals1947" <vals1947@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:469CA8C5-79B3-41A0-96BB-24B0C52A3899@microsoft.com...
>I enjoy my retirement and just use the computer for fun. I am disappointed
> that Outlook is not installed on my Vista Home Premium and I can't look at
> pictures on PowerPoint. Do I need Office or is there something else I
> should
> be looking at.