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On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 21:28:42 +0100, "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote:

> Ken
>
> Isn't that an alternative for Word whereas Office contains many other
> components exactly which depending on the version of Office you buy. Can
> you buy Word Perfect as part of a package?



I'm not sure I completely understand your question, Gerry, but
WordPerfect (the word processing program) is part of an Office suite
called Corel WordPerfect Office. The current version is called X3
(it's the successor to version 12; apparently someone was afraid to
use the "unlucky" number 13).

The suite comes with WordPerfect itself, and also a spreadsheet
program, database, presentation program, etc., much as does Microsoft
Office.

Since I greatly prefer WordPerfect to Word, I don't think of
WordPerfect as an alternative to Word, but I rather think of Word as
an inferior alternative to WordPerfect.

However, regarding the other products in the two suites, I generally
prefer the Microsoft choices: Excel to Corel Quattro Pro, PowerPoint
to Corel Presentations, etc. Although I have the complete WordPerfect
Office Suite, I actually use nothing but the flagship product,
WordPerfect, itself, and use the Microsoft alternatives for the other
uses.

If that doesn't completely answer your question, I'd be happy to
answer further questions, but may I suggest that you write to me by
private E-mail rather than continuing such a dramatically off-topic
thread here. I mentioned WordPerfect below only to point out that
rather than recommending what Xandros called "the overly priced MS
Office bloatware," my personal preference was entirely different.



> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:29:15 -0600, "Xandros"
> > <arron.neus*remove*@gmailcom> wrote:
> >
> >> Here is free alternative to the overly priced MS Office bloatware
> >> that everyone else seems to think you should install
> >
> >
> > I just went back to reread all of the other responses to his message,
> > including my own. Neither I, nor any of the others who replied,
> > suggested that he *should* do anything of the kind. What we all did
> > was explain that the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint do *not* come with
> > Windows, and that *if* he wants then, he needs to install them
> > separately.
> >
> > My personal preference, although I didn't mention it in my earlier
> > response, because it had nothing to do with his question, happens to
> > be for WordPerfect.
> >
> >
> >> http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
> >> After you install OpenOffice simply go to the preferences and set the
> >> applications to Save and Open MS Documents. To get a spellchecker for
> >> Outlook Express this too is free http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/
> >> and works as well as any MS Word dictionary will work with Outlook
> >> Express.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Xandros
> >>
> >>
> >> "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:50082D0E-D650-4BB5-B1AC-58C55D34FF77@microsoft.com...
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I am a very basic user and after rebuilding my computer I can't
> >>> find word, excel or PPT. can someone please help me.
> >>> Thanks Dan
>

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