How To Download Mircosoft Word And Powerpoint?

	How To Download Mircosoft Word And Powerpoint?
	Discussion by luckyboy3123 with 17 Replies. Last Update: December 17, 2007, 11:47 am (View Latest)	Page 1 of 2 pages.

luckyboy3123

Any 1 noe where to download mircosoft word powerpoint and excel? because i bought a second hand com wif windows 2000 and no mircosoft word power point and excel? any where to download?

Sat Jun 16, 2007 Reply New Discussion

xboxrulz

No, downloading and speaking of pirating Microsoft Office is NOT allowed on Astahost forums.

xboxrulz

Sat Jun 16, 2007 Reply New Discussion

You can't just download this stuff; you have to go and actually buy the Microsoft Office Suite. Check out this link for Word: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/FX100487981033.aspx. You can download a free trial, but after that is over, you'll have to go and buy Word. You can also just get the whole suite here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX101674071033.aspx.

Now, on the other hand, if you do want a similar word processing system for free, you can always download OpenOffice here: http://www.openoffice.org/. Programs similar to word and powerpoint are both in there. Good luck.

Sat Jun 16, 2007 Reply New Discussion

Laurence

On the Microsoft website you can get a trial of the newest edition of office, but I'm pretty sure it's only for vista.

Sat Jun 16, 2007 Reply New Discussion

saint-michael

Or an alternate solution would be to download open office, which mimics word to near perfection; ope office has the same programs as word does but it is free and also you can open them up on a computer that has word on it. Which means you can go back and forth without any problems whatsoever.

Sat Jun 16, 2007 Reply New Discussion

xboxrulz

QUOTE (Laurence)

On the Microsoft website you can get a trial of the newest edition of office, but I'm pretty sure it's only for vista.
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It's available for XP.

xboxrulz

Sat Jun 16, 2007 Reply New Discussion

Jimmy89

I would suggest what saint-michael said! Open Office is a great free alternative to microsoft office! I use it all the time at home and have perfect compatability with others who use microsoft office!

Sun Jun 17, 2007 Reply New Discussion

Alegis

If you want something free, I suggest OpenOffice or even easier alternatives like GoogleDocs/Spreadsheats for basic Word Processing.

If you want real advanced word processing, try LaTeX. Not really suited for general use though, it's populair with scientific papers because of the extra power you get in controlling how equations & symbols are displayed.

Myself I definitely prefer working with Office Vista, but I don't think you (the OP) will miss out on features with OpenOffice. Just get something with a spell checker, you need it :\

Sun Jun 17, 2007 Reply New Discussion

xboxrulz

I was just playing with the Beta when it came out, but the thing is, is that I really disliked the revamped GUI. I liked Office XP better.

xboxrulz

Mon Jun 18, 2007 Reply New Discussion

xerxes

OpenOffice is good when it comes to standards uniformity, but it's still quite large if you just want some spreadsheet operations. A windows version of Gnumeric can do well in most circumstances as well. I've been using it together with Abiword (great, small, and simple word processor) for some time, until I needed the more advanced functions of the whole OpenOffice suite.
I guess there are some other open-source alternatives to Powerpoint as well. If you just want to view Powerpoint files there are different versions of Powerpoint Viewer available from Microsoft's website for free. You can find the newest version here, while the older one (much smaller but still handles a lot of newer PowerPoint files) is available here.

Fri Jul 6, 2007 Reply New Discussion

Sten

I use open office

i have an oldish version

i downloaded the new one a couple of months ago and still havent installed it, theres probably a newer one out now.

Sat Jul 7, 2007 Reply New Discussion

nightfox

Just one solution: OpenOffice (like everyone else has said...)

It's EXACTLY like MS Office, just minus all the bogus licensing, GUI features, and buggyness (if that is a word). However, my mom got me MS Office 2003 for only $15 because the college she used to work for had this contract with Microsoft and the software was really cheap... so that's the only reason why I use it, else I'd use OpenOffice.

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Sat Jul 7, 2007 Reply New Discussion