Word and Excel on my pc?

Question

I may be being a bit thick but here goes.....I bought a PC in January and on my desk top I have Microsoft Word and Excel 2007.When I open it it asks for an product activation key for a 60 day trial. I have entered this but it still will not accept it.My question is this.....does a pc come with Word and Excel already loaded or do I have to buy them separate? If I do have to buy them separate are they expensive and easy to load?

Thanks

PC novice

Answer 1

Not too many PC's come with any Microsoft Office products included. You will have to buy them separately. You can do so either through Microsoft.com or most software retailers. They cost around $200 each, but you can save a quite a bit if you just buy them in the entire Office Suite, which can cost as low as $100 for the home/student version.

Answer 2

If you don't want to spend money, as others have suggested, openoffice.org, or simpler but with less features are Gnumeric and Abiword

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

http://www.abisource.com/

Answer 3

Word and Excel are parts of the Office suite. It's a software sold by M$. What you got is the trial which is offered to almost everybody in the ideea that if you start using it you will stay with it (and buy it - a lot of moola) instead of going to the free competition http://www.openoffice.org/

Answer 4

The versions you have are trial versions. At the end of the 60 days, they stop working. You can buy them in Microsoft Office (which is what they want you to do), but Office isn't cheap. (By the way, the key is different from the one used for Windows. You should have the office activation key in the paperwork that came with your computer).

Now, here's the better news. You can use OpenOffice, an open source suite of programs that work as well (and better, to me) and Microsoft Office. OpenOffice also reads, creates and edits files created Microsoft Office applications.

Open Office is free.

Go to the link below, download it and follow the installation instructions.

Answer 5

Most computers do not come with anything extra installed except for the basic system elements.  It is uncommon you'll find any MS Office software installed, or any other period, unless it's a custom system.  You will need to get a valid key to fully activate the software.  If you can't get a valid key, you'll have to buy the software separately which will have its own valid key.

Answer 6

yes you have to buy them seperate and it will run a bit over $200, they are easy to install. I suggest you just get Openoffice which is free and roughly the same