Upgrade Office Basic to Small Business Office

[BJDavey]

I bought a computer with Office Basic installed. I need PowerPoint and
Publisher. I have ACT 2005 and am loathe to load it because of what it did to
slow the computer that it is on now. I am interested in BCM, but note
problems. Is there a way to upgrade without having to repurchase Word, Excel
and Outlook? Is there an alternative to BCM and ACT worth looking at out
there?

Thanks!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi BJDavey,

You're right that Act!, 2005 and newer can use a lot of resources on the computer

You didn't mention the issues you're having with MS Office Outlook with Business Contact Manager (BCM), but there is a separate
newsgroup (links below) that you may want to use to address those issues.

Without knowing how you're planning on using ACT or similar it's difficult to say what else might be of interest. The beta version
of Microsoft's "Live Essentials"
version of 'OfficeLive' (http://officelive.com) might be of interest.

For upgrading, you can purchase an Office 2003 full edition that includes the additional apps or the individual apps separately, but
moving laterally between editions within the 2003 series of MS Office isn't considered an 'upgrade' but a 'crossgrade' by Microsoft
and they chose not to offer crossgrade packaging.
http://microsoft.com/office/howtobuy


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I bought a computer with Office Basic installed. I need PowerPoint and
Publisher. I have ACT 2005 and am loathe to load it because of what it did to
slow the computer that it is on now. I am interested in BCM, but note
problems. Is there a way to upgrade without having to repurchase Word, Excel
and Outlook? Is there an alternative to BCM and ACT worth looking at out
there?

Thanks!>>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

Pricing and Packages for '2007 Microsoft Office System'
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi BJDavey,

Oops. Forgot to put in the links to the Outlook Business Contact Manager newsgroups


A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.bcm
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.bcm

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com