Office & reinstall of XP OS

[antioch]

Fist post did not appear?
Acer Notebook - WINXP SP3
This computer came with WIN XP PRO with preinstalled MS Office Small
Business 2007 with a trial of Office Pro 2007.
I intend to flatten this computer and reinstall the OS.
This will be done via Drive D:\
I have not looked into the drive yet, and was wondering if Office will get
installed along with Windows, as the fresh install should be as factory
installed.
I have the Prod Key Card.
I am currently collating all help issues re the fresh install, but I am a
bit concerned if Office will install or not.
I intend to do a back-up, so would it be a good idea to include Office - or
would that not work.
Rgds
Antioch

 

[DL]

You should have been provided with the Office disks if you purchased Office
with the PC, its extreamly unlikely, if not impossible, your PC would have
had a Trial edition installed together with an oem edition of office. The
two would conflict.
Presumably D is a recovery partition?

A backup would not help with programs, only a clone / image of your drive
using a third party utility, eg Acronis and then recovering that image would
put your PC back to its current status

 

[antioch]

Thank you for your reply - I will need to look into this further.
Office was preinstalled with a trial on the upgrade - I used the Prod Key to
activate Office - I also believe that the Office version was paid for in the
price of the computer.

Thanks Rgds
Antioch

 

[antioch]

Just to update - I have searched Google etc and it would appear that there
is no method for changing the format for a group as a whole/in one go. It
would appear that one has to do each email recipient in the group one at a
time - unless somebody knows differently of course.
So far, part of the group have been reformatted/configured to only receive
in Plain Text.
An email has been sent and the results look very promising.

Rgds
Antioch