Is MS Word free for MSDN Professional Subscribers to download?

Yep, that was my question.

I generally have a very limited use of MS Word and downloading the whole
mammoth Office software is a big drag on your system. I loath paying $500.00
bucks or so for something I use actually very indirectly.

Some of my Visual FoxPro 9 applications require MS office object to
function. I incorporated them while developing the app in XP. Now with a
switch to Vista I cannot even restart the app because it goes over all
objects and for the lack thereof quits.

What shall I do?

Thanks.

P.S. It is also very hard to find this forum unlike regular MSDN forums.
--
AlexB

You can pick up a copy of Works Suite for less than $100 and that will get
you a copy of Word XP.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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"AlexB" <AlexB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06F6D26D-5D51-4CCF-90D8-610544159D25@microsoft.com...
> Yep, that was my question.
>
> I generally have a very limited use of MS Word and downloading the whole
> mammoth Office software is a big drag on your system. I loath paying
> $500.00
> bucks or so for something I use actually very indirectly.
>
> Some of my Visual FoxPro 9 applications require MS office object to
> function. I incorporated them while developing the app in XP. Now with a
> switch to Vista I cannot even restart the app because it goes over all
> objects and for the lack thereof quits.
>
> What shall I do?
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. It is also very hard to find this forum unlike regular MSDN forums.
> --
> AlexB

Are you a MSDN subscriber?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

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Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com

"AlexB" <AlexB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06F6D26D-5D51-4CCF-90D8-610544159D25@microsoft.com...
> Yep, that was my question.
>
> I generally have a very limited use of MS Word and downloading the whole
> mammoth Office software is a big drag on your system. I loath paying $500.00
> bucks or so for something I use actually very indirectly.
>
> Some of my Visual FoxPro 9 applications require MS office object to
> function. I incorporated them while developing the app in XP. Now with a
> switch to Vista I cannot even restart the app because it goes over all
> objects and for the lack thereof quits.
>
> What shall I do?
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. It is also very hard to find this forum unlike regular MSDN forums.
> --
> AlexB