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mbpark · 06-09-2008, 08:34 PM

Have you installed Service Pack 3 for Office XP?

Dell shipped backup CDs of Office XP (my mother has OXP Small Business) around that time. If not, there's about a 4 GB partition used for recovery that probably has it.

However, Office XP is best left alone to rot. OpenOffice is light years ahead of it, and Office XP has nasty installer problems. I actually leave the CD in her CD-ROM drive so that when Automatic Updates runs, it will kick in and install the patches without prompting for it.

Do yourself a favor and just use OpenOffice. It won't crap on you. Microsoft Office XP is a product best left forgotten.

06-09-2008, 08:34 PM	#7
mbpark Lecturer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Carmel, Indiana Posts: 761	Have you installed Service Pack 3 for Office XP? Dell shipped backup CDs of Office XP (my mother has OXP Small Business) around that time. If not, there's about a 4 GB partition used for recovery that probably has it. However, Office XP is best left alone to rot. OpenOffice is light years ahead of it, and Office XP has nasty installer problems. I actually leave the CD in her CD-ROM drive so that when Automatic Updates runs, it will kick in and install the patches without prompting for it. Do yourself a favor and just use OpenOffice. It won't crap on you. Microsoft Office XP is a product best left forgotten.