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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want
it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you |
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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
Chuck
If you don't want MS Word on your computer, go to Add/Remove Programs and take it off.. Microsoft don't include MS Word, trial version or full.. the computer vendor does it to 'add value' to the product.. did you ask the vendor what was included in the package at the point of purchase?.. -- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/User "Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a geek." Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a wrote in message ... 1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you |
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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
Most likely it's the Office 2003 trial version, which most vendors are
throwing in (at no cost to them or the buyer). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote in message ... Chuck If you don't want MS Word on your computer, go to Add/Remove Programs and take it off.. Microsoft don't include MS Word, trial version or full.. the computer vendor does it to 'add value' to the product.. did you ask the vendor what was included in the package at the point of purchase?.. -- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/User "Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a geek." Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a wrote in message ... 1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you |
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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
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Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a geek. had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: 1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you Microsoft didn't. The seller of the PC did? Start Settings Control Panel Classic View Add/Remove Remove the Office stuff as it's only a trial it seems... Start Run Type "control folders" Hit enter Click the file types tab Scroll to .txt Associate that with wordpad or notepad -- Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE) http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/ "We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." - Sherlock Holmes |
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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Most likely it's the Office 2003 trial version, which most vendors are throwing in (at no cost to them or the buyer). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote in message ... Chuck If you don't want MS Word on your computer, go to Add/Remove Programs and take it off.. Microsoft don't include MS Word, trial version or full.. the computer vendor does it to 'add value' to the product.. did you ask the vendor what was included in the package at the point of purchase?.. -- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/User "Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a geek." Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a wrote in message ... 1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you Thanks very much for your help. Chuck Lewis |
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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
Funny... people come here more often to complain that they paid
$300 for a new computer and think that their new computer should have come with $400 worth of Microsoft Office software for free. Chuck wrote: 1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you |
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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
"Galen" wrote: In , Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a geek. had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: 1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you Microsoft didn't. The seller of the PC did? Start Settings Control Panel Classic View Add/Remove Remove the Office stuff as it's only a trial it seems... Start Run Type "control folders" Hit enter Click the file types tab Scroll to .txt Associate that with wordpad or notepad -- Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE) http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/ "We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." - Sherlock Holmes Well said, my helpful expert. Dr. Watson |
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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
That they are, but why do some automatically blame BG?.. doesn't anybody ask
the vendor questions other than like "do they do it in green because we would like it to match the curtains?".. -- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/User "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Most likely it's the Office 2003 trial version, which most vendors are throwing in (at no cost to them or the buyer). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote in message ... Chuck If you don't want MS Word on your computer, go to Add/Remove Programs and take it off.. Microsoft don't include MS Word, trial version or full.. the computer vendor does it to 'add value' to the product.. did you ask the vendor what was included in the package at the point of purchase?.. -- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/User "Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a geek." Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a wrote in message ... 1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you |
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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
There is a point at which the options become so overwhelming that, having
made as many decisions as you can stand to make, you just say, "Whatever comes with it." And of course some people just buy an off-the-shelf package (especially if they buy a computer at an office or technology superstore as opposed to configuring it online with, say, Dell). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote in message ... That they are, but why do some automatically blame BG?.. doesn't anybody ask the vendor questions other than like "do they do it in green because we would like it to match the curtains?".. -- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/User "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Most likely it's the Office 2003 trial version, which most vendors are throwing in (at no cost to them or the buyer). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote in message ... Chuck If you don't want MS Word on your computer, go to Add/Remove Programs and take it off.. Microsoft don't include MS Word, trial version or full.. the computer vendor does it to 'add value' to the product.. did you ask the vendor what was included in the package at the point of purchase?.. -- Mike Hall MVP - Windows Shell/User "Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a geek." Chuck Lewis - Engineer, but not a wrote in message ... 1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you |
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how do I disinstall Word installed in new PC. I prefer Wordpad
THANK YOU! I was beginning to think that I was the only person who
understood that point. One pan of lasagna for Garfield! -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... Funny... people come here more often to complain that they paid $300 for a new computer and think that their new computer should have come with $400 worth of Microsoft Office software for free. Chuck wrote: 1. Word was pre-installed in new computer on a trial basis. I don't want it. Wordpad is all I need. If I can't deactivate Word, I want to remove it. 2. Also, My Documents file from backup hard drive folder from previous computer is controlled by Word. How do I move this out of Word to a standard My Documents file in new computer. Microsoft shouldn't impose unasked-for commercial software in a new computer. Offer the opportunity. Bill Gates should know better. Thank you |
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