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Office Home and Student 2013 on XP?

Discussion in 'General Software' started by Tony D, Oct 17, 2013.

  1. Tony D

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    Customer gave me his XP machine which wasn't booting. Replaced the power supply - no problem.

    Then he asked me to install MS Office Home and Student 2013 which he bought. It's a download. He bought only the Product Key.

    While trying to install this, I was warned that this version doesn't run on XP. It requires Win 7 or 8. The MS site asked if I wanted to go ahead and install it anyway. I'm holding off for now.

    Anyone ever tried running Office Home and Student 2013 on XP?
     
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  4. Tony D

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    Yeah - that's what I found out when I tried to download the installer. It did give me the option to "Install anyway". Just wondering if anyone has tried it.
     
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    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/h...-windows-xp-or-windows-vista-HA103462811.aspx
     
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    Thank Starbuck. What I find interesting is that when I started the download, it recognized that I was on an XP machine. It gave me the appropriate warning and then asked if I wanted to continue anyway. That says to me that the program may work, but have some limitations. Mixed messages from MS.

    Reminds me of the error message we used to get when booting Windows without a keyboard connected. It went something like:
     
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    Tell your customer to get his money back and then install Kingsoft Office Free from here :-

    http://www.kingsoftstore.com/

    Make sure it is the free version as they do a full paid for as well.
    Believe it or not I find this one better at handling all Microsoft Office documents than Open Office does.

    Nev.
     
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  8. Tony D

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    Thanks Nev. I haven't heard of that one. I'm familiar with Open Office. That's what I ended up installing. If you install OpenOffice, I suggest you change the default Save formats to the MS Office formats instead of the OpenOffice formats. Pretty easy to do.
     
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    +1 for Kingsoft. I have used Open Office and MS Office and I found Kingsoft to be much more intuitive and generally easier to learn and use.
     
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    Sounds like something I should put on my To-Do list: Check out Kingsoft.
     
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    I have both Kingsoft and Open Office on the desktop, and Microsofts Works Word on the old XP desktop, plus also on the Acer laptop, and much prefer the Kingsoft to any of the others.
    I fact I don't know why I haven't got rid of Open Office yet. Definitely worth a look Tony.
    Also I found that Open Office didn't like the Works Word created documents and they required some messing changing the file association to .doc, even though they showed as that any way.
    Kingsoft opens them with no problem.

    Nev.
     
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    Does Kingsoft open docx files?
     
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    Sorry, but don't actually have any docx files, for what it takes, download Kingsoft and try it Tony.

    Nev.
     
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    Although Kingsoft Office can not save documents as *.docx, *.pptx or *.xlsx, it can open files in these formats and display exactly the same document layout as in MS Office.
     
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    Follow up - I installed KingSoft Office on my W8 machine this afternoon. Very nice. Opens files much faster than OpenOffice. After checking just a few files, I'm liking this suite. Thanks Nev, Bill, DSTM for your inputs.
     
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    Your Welcome. There are some good free alternatives that do much the same as paid software.
     
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    I was only aware of OpenOffice and Libre Office.
     
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    There is finally a small point which may not affect you any way, however I have found that both Open Office and Kingsoft do not copy and paste well when pasting to a forum reply box.
    Some folks will write their reply, especially if a long one, separately then copy and paste to the reply box, that works quite often when using a Microsoft office or Works word document. However not all forum software will accept the underlying format from the free stuff, so if you do need to write elsewhere and copy and paste, write in a notepad document instead.
    Both Open Office, and Kingsoft have produced utter garbage on some forums I am a member of. (Not tried it here yet though)

    Edit to add, it does seem to be OK here, as this actually is a copy and pasted edit using Kingsoft.


    Nev.
     
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