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hi, I have windows me which runs the worsk suite. My brother has windows xl and runs the office suite of applications. I want to put ms access, excel and powerpoint onto my machine. My question is can this be done, i.e will ms works be able to run excel, access and powerpoint? And if this can be done what steps do I take as regards copying and installing these programmes. A detailed answer would be really apprecitated as you can see I far from an expert at the moment. Thanks in advance guys

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CharlesBukowski

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tullowhill

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Thanks for that Charles. Just one last thing. I assume that if I do install the office suite using the appropriate cd that I won't have to partition the hard drive, i.e ms works and ms office can work together on the same operating system. If this is true then don't bother responding as I'll know what to do. If not then please advise. Thanks again, Tullowhill

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You know, you can pick up Office 97 Professional CD Rom's quite cheaply these days, and all the file formats from Office 2000 apart from .mdb databases will open OK in the older suite. Some of the extra data that Office XP embeds into its Word documents won't be enabled in Word 97, but this only applies to special formatting, etc.

Office 2000 CD's are now also dropping quite a lot in price on online auctions, as long as you ensure that it has a legitimate licence and isn't a Pirate copy.

Avoid any that use a CD Key starting with QQ999 as this has been identified as a number that was leaked from Microsoft and is the most widely distributed number. Any live online updates are now blocked from the Microsoft website.

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This question should be moved to a windows TA, not the web graphics topic area.

BillDL

Eh, yes it should. I hadn't even noticed that when I commented.

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Thank you, Venabili and modulo.