Thanks, Sarah! If I had known all this stuff you learned, I woulld have had problems, well, at least not the type I have had. But you know, finally that is just what I did when trying to get Word back. I just selected it and got out oof there. <lol> You are right; I didn't knoow what most of the items mean, and at first I chose an option. It would open and show me maybe up to 20 options, etc. You can just keep gooing and going!!! So finally I got this message that told me to choose what I wanted and clear the rest. Luckily I interpreted clear as ignore. So Word is up and running and that is all I wanted. I will add the tips you have here to my collection because iit is rewarding to be able to install/uninstall, or modify programs. I sure do know how to uninstall!!! <lol> Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 3:25 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question I don't actually own Office 2000, but I have read about it, and I know that you can choose what it installs. The problem is that you must choose custom installation and it is certain to be complicated and confusing for the average computer user. I certainly didn't recognize every single item in the list for my Office installation, and I took an intensive pain in the butt class on it. :-) I would suggest putting your first Office 2000 CD in the CD drive and going to "add remove programs" in the control pannel. In the list of installed programs that comes up choose Office and then click or hit enter on the "change or remove" button. Sorry if that is not exactly what it is called in your version of Windows, but the correct one should be apparent. Even when it only says remove it will usually modify program installations. Now you should get a dialog from Office that will allow you to install/modify/remove Office. Choose install if there isn't a modify option and when you are asked about the type of installation choose custom, then choose Word and deselect the other major Office applications. If you don't deselect things you don't know anything about everything should be alright and Office should repair any previous damage done by partial or all too complete removals in the past. :-) I really hope this helps. Sarah Van Oosterwijck http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Stevens" <jmu1942@xxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:31 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question > Glad to hear that Kellie. I have a Gateway Tower and the Microsoft Office > Suite was essentially all on it when I got it. But I didn't want it all on > there, so I removed some of it. (smile) Can I buy Word 2000 as a separate > disk or CD, or do you know? <smile> > > Sue > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 10:13 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question > > > Hi Sue, > You can definitely have Word without having Office. I'm running Word 2000 on > my computer and don't have office. > Kellie > > > > > > >