I need a copy of the MSOFFICE 95 WINWORD.EXE. Anyone know where I can get it? Microsoft doesn’t seem to have any downloads available and the only one I found on the web is at a Texas University on a student site where all forms of MS programs are free – but the WINWORD.EXE download doesn’t work. I’ve written via e-mail to the student who operates the site several times, informing him of this, but he either can’t or doesn’t want to fix it.
My computer came with Win 95 and MSOFFICE in it because it is second hand and I don’t have the disks. The system glitched a time ago and I started having problems with the WP writing to floppies, so, stupidly I used the MICROSOFT file repair to attempt to fix the WINWORD.EXE, thinking that was the problem. It promptly ate up the program and scrambled it into uselessness.
I located WIN98 on the web and downloaded their WINWORD.EXE – but they’ve changed it and, to keep it short, it will not work. I do a massive amount of word processing so, after weeks of searching the web, I finally loaded up a CETUS floppy only WP, which works but does not have the many functions WinWord had – like double space formatting of text.
Anyone out there in SD land know where I can download a WINWORD.exe file from the old MSOFFICE, circa 95? I really can’t afford to go out and buy an MSOFFICE disk at $65 a pop and everyone I know has upgraded to WIN98.
I can’t help you with MS WORD, but you might want to give StarOffice a try. It’s a free suite of office-type applications, with what looked to be a pretty decent word processor, among other things.
It has a lot of stuff, probably more than you need, which makes it a monster download of 65 meg. If you are using a 56k modem, that can take a buttload of time, or an overnighter.
I played with it a little, it can read in MS Word files, but it can’t save as MS Word files. If you need to go from Star to Word, I’m pretty sure you can do a “save as text”, then import that into Word (losing formatting, graphics, etc).
I would echo Revtim’s suggestion. This is a free download to people that are going to use it for home use only.
It’s basically a Microsoft Office done by someone else.
You would then have a legal copy of software to use. The people you got the computer from have to give you the license and software media with the computer, or erase it.
