Purchase Word separately

[Altayr]

Hi, I would like to purchase Word 2004 separate from the Microsoft
Office package, since I have no need of the other programs and cannot
pay the high fee for all of them. However, your website doesn't offer
an easy way to make this purchase (which it really should). How can I
purchase Word 2004 separately, and what is the cost? I already have
Word 2001 and so if there's an easy upgrade, I would like to purchase
that.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi, Whatever Your Name Is:

My website?? You're right, my website doesn't offer any way to purchase
anything.

Oh... You mean the "Microsoft" Website? (None of the people you see
in here work for Microsoft, and the corporation does not own us ...)

Well I would have thought the "How to buy" link on the front page of the
Microsoft Mactopia website would have been what you wanted:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/word2004/word2004.aspx?pid=howtobuy

But I STRONGLY advise you NOT to try to buy Word on its own. You can, but
you will regret it for the rest of your days

You will lose a lot of functionality and you will save only about 20 bucks.
The reason the standalone package is hard to find right now is that Office
is about to be replaced: what you are seeing are run-out specials; shops
won't be ordering new stock they will get stuck with when the new version
comes out. And the standalone never was popular, because it was a lousy
deal

Let me give you a simplistic explanation: Microsoft Office is built like a
car -- you get an "Engine" which does the work, and a set of "user
interfaces" that provide the steering wheel and dashboard. Just as you can
buy the same car with a variety of bodies and a variety of brand-names,
Office has a user interface for Word, one for Excel, one for PowerPoint,
etc. Whichever one you buy, you're basically getting the same engine, with
different "pretties". So if you buy Word stand-alone, you get the engine,
but you won't be able to use half of it because the dashboard controls are
missing

If I were you, I would hit eBay and find the cheapest price you can on the
full version of Microsoft Office. DON'T waste money on the "Professional"
version unless you are on a PowerPC Mac -- the Professional version contains
a copy of Virtual PC and a copy of Windows XP, but they will run only on
PowerPCs. You can run Windows XP native on Intel Macs.

And yes, it's an easy upgrade: stick the CD in the Hole and let it do its
thing. It should find and offer to remove Office 2001 for you. I suggest
that you allow it to do that: otherwise you will get a bit of confusion
about which version starts

Hope this helps

Hi, I would like to purchase Word 2004 separate from the Microsoft
Office package, since I have no need of the other programs and cannot
pay the high fee for all of them. However, your website doesn't offer
an easy way to make this purchase (which it really should). How can I
purchase Word 2004 separately, and what is the cost? I already have
Word 2001 and so if there's an easy upgrade, I would like to purchase
that.

--
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Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Phillip Jones]

Hi, Whatever Your Name Is:

My website?? You're right, my website doesn't offer any way to purchase
anything.

Oh... You mean the "Microsoft" Website? (None of the people you see
in here work for Microsoft, and the corporation does not own us ...)

Well technically they don't.
We're more like indentured Servants.

Well I would have thought the "How to buy" link on the front page of the
Microsoft Mactopia website would have been what you wanted:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/word2004/word2004.aspx?pid=howtobuy

But I STRONGLY advise you NOT to try to buy Word on its own. You can, but
you will regret it for the rest of your days

You will lose a lot of functionality and you will save only about 20 bucks.
The reason the standalone package is hard to find right now is that Office
is about to be replaced: what you are seeing are run-out specials; shops
won't be ordering new stock they will get stuck with when the new version
comes out. And the standalone never was popular, because it was a lousy
deal

Let me give you a simplistic explanation: Microsoft Office is built like a
car -- you get an "Engine" which does the work, and a set of "user
interfaces" that provide the steering wheel and dashboard. Just as you can
buy the same car with a variety of bodies and a variety of brand-names,
Office has a user interface for Word, one for Excel, one for PowerPoint,
etc. Whichever one you buy, you're basically getting the same engine, with
different "pretties". So if you buy Word stand-alone, you get the engine,
but you won't be able to use half of it because the dashboard controls are
missing

If I were you, I would hit eBay and find the cheapest price you can on the
full version of Microsoft Office. DON'T waste money on the "Professional"
version unless you are on a PowerPC Mac -- the Professional version contains
a copy of Virtual PC and a copy of Windows XP, but they will run only on
PowerPCs. You can run Windows XP native on Intel Macs.

And yes, it's an easy upgrade: stick the CD in the Hole and let it do its
thing. It should find and offer to remove Office 2001 for you. I suggest
that you allow it to do that: otherwise you will get a bit of confusion
about which version starts

Hope this helps

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[Phillip Jones]

Hi, Whatever Your Name Is:

My website?? You're right, my website doesn't offer any way to purchase
anything.

Oh... You mean the "Microsoft" Website? (None of the people you see
in here work for Microsoft, and the corporation does not own us ...)

Well I would have thought the "How to buy" link on the front page of the
Microsoft Mactopia website would have been what you wanted:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/word2004/word2004.aspx?pid=howtobuy

But I STRONGLY advise you NOT to try to buy Word on its own. You can, but
you will regret it for the rest of your days

You will lose a lot of functionality and you will save only about 20 bucks.
The reason the standalone package is hard to find right now is that Office
is about to be replaced: what you are seeing are run-out specials; shops
won't be ordering new stock they will get stuck with when the new version
comes out. And the standalone never was popular, because it was a lousy
deal

Let me give you a simplistic explanation: Microsoft Office is built like a
car -- you get an "Engine" which does the work, and a set of "user
interfaces" that provide the steering wheel and dashboard. Just as you can
buy the same car with a variety of bodies and a variety of brand-names,
Office has a user interface for Word, one for Excel, one for PowerPoint,
etc. Whichever one you buy, you're basically getting the same engine, with
different "pretties". So if you buy Word stand-alone, you get the engine,
but you won't be able to use half of it because the dashboard controls are
missing

If I were you, I would hit eBay and find the cheapest price you can on the
full version of Microsoft Office. DON'T waste money on the "Professional"
version unless you are on a PowerPC Mac -- the Professional version contains
a copy of Virtual PC and a copy of Windows XP, but they will run only on
PowerPCs. You can run Windows XP native on Intel Macs.

And yes, it's an easy upgrade: stick the CD in the Hole and let it do its
thing. It should find and offer to remove Office 2001 for you. I suggest
that you allow it to do that: otherwise you will get a bit of confusion
about which version starts

Hope this helps

I agree I started out using Word 6.0.1a and Excel 5.0.1a. on a SE/30 and
used that on my 7100/66 when I bought my G4-500 I found it cheaper by
Office2001 than buy Excel/Word individually.

I have absolutely no use for Entourage, and I tried powerpoint one time
.. The resulting PowerPont presentation was so large no one could
downloaded it after uploaded to website. So Its useless to me.

But buying the whole package was valuable to me even though I don't use
two of the components.

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[John McGhie]

Yeah: For example, Word contains some nice drawing tools: PowerPoint
provides an easier way to use them than Word or Excel.

Excel provides very powerful mathematics functions: you can use them in Word
if they are installed.

Word won't save embedded pictures out as separate files: PowerPoint will.

PowerPoint won't save its style formatting out as a document forupload into
InDesign, Word will.

Word will enable insertion of any character you have the font for:
PowerPoint and Excel won't.

Word won't split pictures across a page: Excel will.

Word won't do vertical text, Excel will. Word won't free-rotate text;
PowerPoint will.

Buy the whole thing, and you will have a much wider range of functionality
in the one application you mainly use

And Phillip, we are NOT indentured servants: indentured servants get PAID,
we don't

Cheers

I agree I started out using Word 6.0.1a and Excel 5.0.1a. on a SE/30 and
used that on my 7100/66 when I bought my G4-500 I found it cheaper by
Office2001 than buy Excel/Word individually.

I have absolutely no use for Entourage, and I tried powerpoint one time
. The resulting PowerPont presentation was so large no one could

downloaded it after uploaded to website. So Its useless to me.

But buying the whole package was valuable to me even though I don't use
two of the components.

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Phillip Jones]

Actually, an indentured servant the only difference is that they are
under contract. (So I can't include myself in that category). But the
only pay they got was a roof over their head and food to eat but they
had to work their a-- off to get that just like the regular slave.

Yeah: For example, Word contains some nice drawing tools: PowerPoint
provides an easier way to use them than Word or Excel.

Excel provides very powerful mathematics functions: you can use them in Word
if they are installed.

Word won't save embedded pictures out as separate files: PowerPoint will.

PowerPoint won't save its style formatting out as a document forupload into
InDesign, Word will.

Word will enable insertion of any character you have the font for:
PowerPoint and Excel won't.

Word won't split pictures across a page: Excel will.

Word won't do vertical text, Excel will. Word won't free-rotate text;
PowerPoint will.

Buy the whole thing, and you will have a much wider range of functionality
in the one application you mainly use

And Phillip, we are NOT indentured servants: indentured servants get PAID,
we don't

Cheers

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Phillip M. Jones, CET |LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling
616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868
Martinsville Va 24112 |[email protected], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet
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