Sorry, possibly an idiot question!

mifta | 23:11 Sat 15th Mar 2008 | Technology

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I have just bought a new laptop today with vista home premium. I cannot find any word processing software other than wordpad and I have tried opening up some docs from my portable storage and they wont open. Also cant find any spreadsheet software.etc. Can anyone tell me if I have to upgrade to office 2007 or should I have some version of it on Vista.

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Buenchico

As IAL indicates, Vista is basically just an operating system. Each of the editions has a few 'extras' but none of them include office software:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/wind owsvista/editions/choose.mspx

You'll either need to purchase Windows software or download OpenOffice for free:
http://www.openoffice.org/
(Unless you need to open some very complex files from Office 2007, such as Word documents with exceptionally complex macros, you'll find OpenOffice is fully compatible with Office 2007 software).

Chris

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Thanks for your replies.

I have installed my old version of office 2000 and its working fine.

Many thanks for preventing me looking like an idiot tommorrow as I was about to storm PC World!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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... and you saved some money too. ;-)

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