back home from the graduation - yes you are probably right about having uninstalled the Word part - I'm just going to leave the Office part on as I have enough room on my hard drive and I went ahead and downloaded the patches but I am going to uninstall Excel - again thanks for your help and comments - Dolores ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Wilcox" <Dwilcox3@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 3:52 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Microsoft Word-Excel-etc. - to delete or not to delete - patch or not to patch > What you probably did was uninstall the MS Word part of MS Office. > Outlook > Express uses the spell checker in Word. There are several free > replacements > for it. Perhaps the spell checker in Open Office word processor will > work. > > Don > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dolores" <dshelham@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 12:40 PM > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Microsoft Word-Excel-etc. - to delete or not > to > delete - patch or not to patch > > >> Again thanks for the response. I remember back when I first got this >> computer and realized that I only had a trial, I did something (brain >> can't >> think that far back 3 years ago) and I lost spell check in OE and had to >> do >> a reinstall so that's kind of why I don't want to mess with it. I will >> go >> ahead and delete Excel though. Windows Update knows I only have XP home >> and >> they keep telling me that I need to install Outlook 7 but I keep choosing >> to >> ignore it until I find out how much pre-work I need to, i.e. backing up, >> making a list. etc. >> >> Now I need to get packing and on the road! Thanks - Dolores >> > > -- > Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and > everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. > > To unsubscribe or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/