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- I just bought MS Works 9. It was a terrible experience. You guys ought to be ashamed of the packaging job. I had to destroy the box in order to get it open! Then I wanted to remove the product ID sticker from the box before throwing the box away. I had to bend and fracture the plastic to get it off and it is left with sharp fragments of the plastic. Next, I could find no reference to MS Word being part of the package - like it is in Works 2004 and 2005 which I already have. Well, I figured I could install it anyway and see. Well it won't install unless I remove Works 2005! That means I would lose Word entirely. I bought Works 9 for the express reason to get the latest version of Word. You have terribly dissappointed me!
Russell C. Pillsbury
1203 Perkins Lane
Edgewater Park, NJ 08010
EMAIL GONE
Russ
Answers
- Hello Russk2t,
There is plenty of info about Works 9 available on the Works webpage at Microsoft.com:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/default.mspx
If your main concern is to have the latest edition of Microsoft Word, perhaps purchasing Office Home and Student 2007 would be a better option. Office Home & Student 2007 includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. If you live in the USA, you can watch the sales at the Big Box stores and sometimes get a copy of Office Home and Student 2007 for as little as $79.99 (regular retail price seems to be about $149). Since the retail license for H&S allows you to install it on up to three computers in the same household when used for noncommercial purposes, that works out to less than $30 for each computer.
If you are not 100% satisfied with any Microsoft retail product, and you reside in North America, if your reseller will not accept a return of the product, you can send the product to Microsoft for a refund within 45 days of purchase:
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/productrefund/refund.mspx
This article at PCWorld Magazine blogs might be of interest: http://www.pcworld.com/article/173382/adsupported_office_starter_2010_to_replace_ms_works.html
For great advice on all topics XP, visit http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp- Marked As Answer byCarey FrischMVP, ModeratorSunday, October 18, 2009 1:00 PM
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- Hello Russk2t,
There is plenty of info about Works 9 available on the Works webpage at Microsoft.com:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/default.mspx
If your main concern is to have the latest edition of Microsoft Word, perhaps purchasing Office Home and Student 2007 would be a better option. Office Home & Student 2007 includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. If you live in the USA, you can watch the sales at the Big Box stores and sometimes get a copy of Office Home and Student 2007 for as little as $79.99 (regular retail price seems to be about $149). Since the retail license for H&S allows you to install it on up to three computers in the same household when used for noncommercial purposes, that works out to less than $30 for each computer.
If you are not 100% satisfied with any Microsoft retail product, and you reside in North America, if your reseller will not accept a return of the product, you can send the product to Microsoft for a refund within 45 days of purchase:
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/productrefund/refund.mspx
This article at PCWorld Magazine blogs might be of interest: http://www.pcworld.com/article/173382/adsupported_office_starter_2010_to_replace_ms_works.html
For great advice on all topics XP, visit http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp- Marked As Answer byCarey FrischMVP, ModeratorSunday, October 18, 2009 1:00 PM
