Trish Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Does anyone know of a brand or store that sells a desktop with preinstalled MS Office? Everywhere I look, they come with MS Works and I need office. The software itself is $400! TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgia Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 my new computer came with works, but I bought, and had installed, office for $140 at Circuit City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth-VT Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Hey Trish....not sure what you need MS Office for, but would OpenOffice work in it's place? I haven't found anything I can't do with Office that I can't do with OO, and no files from either that aren't compatible with the other. OO has the word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, HTML....etc. I don't think I'll ever have MS OFfice again....and OO is FREE .Oh....I hate Works too!! I have over 1000 fonts in my system, and Works won't print things properly if more than 500 fonts are present. ArgH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted November 7, 2005 Author Share Posted November 7, 2005 I need Excel and Word specifically. Although Works has a spreadsheet and word processor, I can't open any Excel or Word files and I have several things that I need to use them for! LOL Thanks all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawnee Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Dell will install it for you, unfortuantely they add an extra $200 to the computer to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EMercier Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I bought a Dell at a computer show last year. One of the fastest at that time and I took my specifications to them, I did not know what I was talking about (my mom is the computer anaylst) and I walked up with my sheet and they put it all together and installed MS Office and some other stuff. I got a Flat panel monitor and DVD-RW as well as CD-RW all these USB ports and other goodies for $800 (it's also black!). My mom of course had to check it out and was jealous because my computer was better than hers! Of course she went out and got another one. BUT, I say all that to say, you may not have to pay a bunch of money if marketproshows or other computer shows come to your town. I know they come to Valley Forge and Ft. Washington a lot closer to Christmas. That's another route to go, onyl if you are looking for a new computer. Now, if you already have the programs installed you could get an upgrade for less than $100 and to install it takes nothing at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breanna Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I need Excel and Word specifically. Although Works has a spreadsheet and word processor, I can't open any Excel or Word files and I have several things that I need to use them for! LOL Thanks all!I have 4 computers and all bought by Dell,,,you can build your own computer and add any software,,,check them out,,,www.dell.com. They have great prices and they are good computers,,,HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgia Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I "built" my computer on line a dell, printed it out and went to Circuit City. Got a better computer for less.Trish, shop around. I'm sure you can find office for less than $400. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 Ah well...no biggie. My current computer is fine, but after checking software prices to add MS Office to my system, I figured I might be able to buy a new computer with Office already installed for nearly the same price! I was surprised that every single site I looked at had Works preinstalled. Ugh, I don't want to spend that much money for Excel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth-VT Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I'm tellin' ya....OpenOffice is all you need It opens Word and Excel files. It lets you edit Word and Excel files. You can save them in Excel or Word format, or in OpenOffice format. You can create documents from scratch in OpenOffice and the save them in Word or Excel formats.It's simply loverly, lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 Beth, you seem to always save my ass! I'm downloading it now!! Thank you so much!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyN Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I have a Dell laptop and I love it. We have wireless in our house and so I can use it everywhere, even outside by the pool. I had mine built with Microsoft Office Pro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybersix Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I agree, OpenOffice is the best thing you can get for free. It's fully compatible with MS Office, and now in the version 2.00 there is also "Draw" a nice module to make everything you need.. I made my own labels with this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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