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Is the Office Service Pack too much for me?
I have Word 2002 on my computer (and the rest of the
Works 2002 Suite), but I still consider myself a "new user." The Office download center reports that I should download the latest Office Service Packs. I don't have Office, just -- as I said earlier -- the Word 2002 component of Office. The listing of the contents of the service pack shows a lot of patches/updates for Word as well as for other components of Office. My question is: Should I download that nearly 50 minutes of non- Word "stuff" just to get the specific file or files for Word? Please respond to my (unmodified)email address: . Thank you. |
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Is the Office Service Pack too much for me?
AFAIK, there is no way to get the (necessary) updates for Word without
downloading the entire Office SP. Only the Word portions will actually be installed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... I have Word 2002 on my computer (and the rest of the Works 2002 Suite), but I still consider myself a "new user." The Office download center reports that I should download the latest Office Service Packs. I don't have Office, just -- as I said earlier -- the Word 2002 component of Office. The listing of the contents of the service pack shows a lot of patches/updates for Word as well as for other components of Office. My question is: Should I download that nearly 50 minutes of non- Word "stuff" just to get the specific file or files for Word? Please respond to my (unmodified)email address: . Thank you. |
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Is the Office Service Pack too much for me?
Suzanne, thank you for your rapid response. Questions:
First: What is "AFAIK"? Second: You say that I should download the entire Office SP, but that only the Word portions will be installed. In that cse, what happens to the downloaded but uninstalled OTHER, non-Word portions? Do they remain on the hard drive, taking up lots of real estate (after all, it will take 50 minutes to download that SP!)? Can they be easily deleted? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK, there is no way to get the (necessary) updates for Word without downloading the entire Office SP. Only the Word portions will actually be installed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... I have Word 2002 on my computer (and the rest of the Works 2002 Suite), but I still consider myself a "new user." The Office download center reports that I should download the latest Office Service Packs. I don't have Office, just -- as I said earlier -- the Word 2002 component of Office. The listing of the contents of the service pack shows a lot of patches/updates for Word as well as for other components of Office. My question is: Should I download that nearly 50 minutes of non- Word "stuff" just to get the specific file or files for Word? Please respond to my (unmodified)email address: . Thank you. . |
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Is the Office Service Pack too much for me?
AFAIK = as far as I know
I'm not sure what happens to the unused portions, but it's possible they aren't saved since I had to redownload patches when I installed FrontPage after updating Office 2003. It's also possible that only the required portions are downloaded. But I'm by no means an expert on this. You might want to inquire in microsoft.public.office.setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... Suzanne, thank you for your rapid response. Questions: First: What is "AFAIK"? Second: You say that I should download the entire Office SP, but that only the Word portions will be installed. In that cse, what happens to the downloaded but uninstalled OTHER, non-Word portions? Do they remain on the hard drive, taking up lots of real estate (after all, it will take 50 minutes to download that SP!)? Can they be easily deleted? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK, there is no way to get the (necessary) updates for Word without downloading the entire Office SP. Only the Word portions will actually be installed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... I have Word 2002 on my computer (and the rest of the Works 2002 Suite), but I still consider myself a "new user." The Office download center reports that I should download the latest Office Service Packs. I don't have Office, just -- as I said earlier -- the Word 2002 component of Office. The listing of the contents of the service pack shows a lot of patches/updates for Word as well as for other components of Office. My question is: Should I download that nearly 50 minutes of non- Word "stuff" just to get the specific file or files for Word? Please respond to my (unmodified)email address: . Thank you. . |
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Is the Office Service Pack too much for me?
Thanks, again, Suzanne, for your speedy reply. AOL could
not find the web site you referred me to: "microsoft.public.office.setup." (I inserted www before the address.) Did you (and I) leave something out? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK = as far as I know I'm not sure what happens to the unused portions, but it's possible they aren't saved since I had to redownload patches when I installed FrontPage after updating Office 2003. It's also possible that only the required portions are downloaded. But I'm by no means an expert on this. You might want to inquire in microsoft.public.office.setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... Suzanne, thank you for your rapid response. Questions: First: What is "AFAIK"? Second: You say that I should download the entire Office SP, but that only the Word portions will be installed. In that cse, what happens to the downloaded but uninstalled OTHER, non-Word portions? Do they remain on the hard drive, taking up lots of real estate (after all, it will take 50 minutes to download that SP!)? Can they be easily deleted? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK, there is no way to get the (necessary) updates for Word without downloading the entire Office SP. Only the Word portions will actually be installed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow- ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... I have Word 2002 on my computer (and the rest of the Works 2002 Suite), but I still consider myself a "new user." The Office download center reports that I should download the latest Office Service Packs. I don't have Office, just -- as I said earlier -- the Word 2002 component of Office. The listing of the contents of the service pack shows a lot of patches/updates for Word as well as for other components of Office. My question is: Should I download that nearly 50 minutes of non- Word "stuff" just to get the specific file or files for Word? Please respond to my (unmodified)email address: . Thank you. . . |
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Is the Office Service Pack too much for me?
microsoft.public.office.setup is a newsgroup forum - the eaiest way to
access the newsgroups is via newsreading software such as Outlook Express - see http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word Norm wrote: Thanks, again, Suzanne, for your speedy reply. AOL could not find the web site you referred me to: "microsoft.public.office.setup." (I inserted www before the address.) Did you (and I) leave something out? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK = as far as I know I'm not sure what happens to the unused portions, but it's possible they aren't saved since I had to redownload patches when I installed FrontPage after updating Office 2003. It's also possible that only the required portions are downloaded. But I'm by no means an expert on this. You might want to inquire in microsoft.public.office.setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... Suzanne, thank you for your rapid response. Questions: First: What is "AFAIK"? Second: You say that I should download the entire Office SP, but that only the Word portions will be installed. In that cse, what happens to the downloaded but uninstalled OTHER, non-Word portions? Do they remain on the hard drive, taking up lots of real estate (after all, it will take 50 minutes to download that SP!)? Can they be easily deleted? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK, there is no way to get the (necessary) updates for Word without downloading the entire Office SP. Only the Word portions will actually be installed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow- ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... I have Word 2002 on my computer (and the rest of the Works 2002 Suite), but I still consider myself a "new user." The Office download center reports that I should download the latest Office Service Packs. I don't have Office, just -- as I said earlier -- the Word 2002 component of Office. The listing of the contents of the service pack shows a lot of patches/updates for Word as well as for other components of Office. My question is: Should I download that nearly 50 minutes of non- Word "stuff" just to get the specific file or files for Word? Please respond to my (unmodified)email address: . Thank you. . . |
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Is the Office Service Pack too much for me?
As Graham said, microsoft.public.office.setup is another newsgroup on this
server. Try news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...c.office.setup or look for an Office Setup NG in the same place you accessed this NG. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... Thanks, again, Suzanne, for your speedy reply. AOL could not find the web site you referred me to: "microsoft.public.office.setup." (I inserted www before the address.) Did you (and I) leave something out? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK = as far as I know I'm not sure what happens to the unused portions, but it's possible they aren't saved since I had to redownload patches when I installed FrontPage after updating Office 2003. It's also possible that only the required portions are downloaded. But I'm by no means an expert on this. You might want to inquire in microsoft.public.office.setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... Suzanne, thank you for your rapid response. Questions: First: What is "AFAIK"? Second: You say that I should download the entire Office SP, but that only the Word portions will be installed. In that cse, what happens to the downloaded but uninstalled OTHER, non-Word portions? Do they remain on the hard drive, taking up lots of real estate (after all, it will take 50 minutes to download that SP!)? Can they be easily deleted? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK, there is no way to get the (necessary) updates for Word without downloading the entire Office SP. Only the Word portions will actually be installed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow- ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... I have Word 2002 on my computer (and the rest of the Works 2002 Suite), but I still consider myself a "new user." The Office download center reports that I should download the latest Office Service Packs. I don't have Office, just -- as I said earlier -- the Word 2002 component of Office. The listing of the contents of the service pack shows a lot of patches/updates for Word as well as for other components of Office. My question is: Should I download that nearly 50 minutes of non- Word "stuff" just to get the specific file or files for Word? Please respond to my (unmodified)email address: . Thank you. . . |
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Is the Office Service Pack too much for me?
Thank you, Suzanne and Graham. I've found that Office
Setup site on the Newsgroup forum and have posted my questions there. (Maybe I'll just take a chance and invest the fifty minutes to download the entire humungous SP . . . and see what happens -- my hard disk is not very full!) -----Original Message----- microsoft.public.office.setup is a newsgroup forum - the eaiest way to access the newsgroups is via newsreading software such as Outlook Express - see http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word Norm wrote: Thanks, again, Suzanne, for your speedy reply. AOL could not find the web site you referred me to: "microsoft.public.office.setup." (I inserted www before the address.) Did you (and I) leave something out? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK = as far as I know I'm not sure what happens to the unused portions, but it's possible they aren't saved since I had to redownload patches when I installed FrontPage after updating Office 2003. It's also possible that only the required portions are downloaded. But I'm by no means an expert on this. You might want to inquire in microsoft.public.office.setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow- ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... Suzanne, thank you for your rapid response. Questions: First: What is "AFAIK"? Second: You say that I should download the entire Office SP, but that only the Word portions will be installed. In that cse, what happens to the downloaded but uninstalled OTHER, non-Word portions? Do they remain on the hard drive, taking up lots of real estate (after all, it will take 50 minutes to download that SP!)? Can they be easily deleted? Thanks again! -----Original Message----- AFAIK, there is no way to get the (necessary) updates for Word without downloading the entire Office SP. Only the Word portions will actually be installed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow- ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Norm" wrote in message ... I have Word 2002 on my computer (and the rest of the Works 2002 Suite), but I still consider myself a "new user." The Office download center reports that I should download the latest Office Service Packs. I don't have Office, just -- as I said earlier -- the Word 2002 component of Office. The listing of the contents of the service pack shows a lot of patches/updates for Word as well as for other components of Office. My question is: Should I download that nearly 50 minutes of non- Word "stuff" just to get the specific file or files for Word? Please respond to my (unmodified)email address: . Thank you. . . . |
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