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Microsoft Office XP Home Edition 2002

Oct 18, 2009 6:45PM PDT

HELP! I have just moved back to UK from Cyprus. Brought my Office XP Disks with me. But when I unpacked them the Office XP Home Edition disk was smashed. Therefore, I could not load my Office XP Pro 2002 Upgrade. Does anyone have an old Office XP 2002 Home edition disk they don't use anymore. I have my valid licence numbers for both Home edition and Pro. Just need an old copy of the disk for XP Home 2002.
Tried MSN direct but all I got was "DON'T SUPPORT ANYMORE, YOU WILL HAVE TO BUY A NEW COPY OF XP PRO".
I am a pensioner and just can't afford the prices they charge now.
Would be really grateful for help.

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If nobody offers a disk ...
Oct 18, 2009 6:51PM PDT

work-around by downloading free OpenOffice 3.0. Works for most of us quite satisfactory (but, of course, you might be the exception).

Why do you need the Pro version?

Kees

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Offixe XP Home
Oct 18, 2009 6:57PM PDT

Thank you for your reply. I need the Pro version on my PC because I do a lot of work for a charity on a voluntary basis and also a lot of spreadsheets and other stuff. Pro gives me much more and I am fully conversant with it. Meg

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The difference between Standard and Pro ...
Oct 18, 2009 7:07PM PDT

is that Standard has only Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint, while Pro adds Access and Publisher.

If you don't need Access or Publisher (and you didn't explicitely say so) you don't need Pro. The only thing you mention is spreadsheets, and the Excel in both versions is exactly the same.

http://shopper.cnet.com/4366-3524_9-5600364.html gives the comparison and a few rather cheap places to buy what you need. Even a charity might be able to pay it for you if you need it for your work for them.

Kees

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Try It! You'll like it! :)
Oct 21, 2009 1:17PM PDT

Megdow I agree completely and then some with Kees. Give Open Office a try. If you're a home user it is a free download and there is no reason you can't have two different office suites on your computer. You can always track down the parts to get your MS Office 2002 running. After trying Open Office 3 -which is more "up to date" then a 7 year old MS Office- you may decide it isn't worth the effort to get MS Office working. You can set up Open Office to open MS Office documents and save them in MS Office format. I have yet to run into any problems moving documents back and forth between MS Office and Open Office.