Try to open a doc via windows explorer - open windows explorer (open programs, then accessories, then windows explorer), go to the file location and the file you want, right click on the file. Go down to 'open with' then drop down to 'choose program' and select 'word starter' as the preferred program.
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My experience has been that any attempts to update what you don't have installed will simply fail. You can select 'do not install' those updates as they appear in the update dialogue. You can also uninstall those products not used which may stop the updates from appearing.
Paul Hachmeyer
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From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lynn Kucera
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 4:46 PM
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Subject: [PCSOFT] MS Office Updates
Hello Listers,
When I bought my new Windows 7 Gateway DX4860 it came with MS Word and Excel Starter pre-installed which was great I have no use for the full suite of programs. My problem is I can get Excel to open with Starter but every time I try to open a Word doc MS Office Word comes up and tells me that I’m in the trial period, I don’t want the trial period, I want Word Starter as my default program to open when I click on a document is there any way I can work around Word Office and go straight to Word Starter?
One other thing is do I need to install all the updates for MS Office? Outlook, Powerpoint and the like since they are not installed? I haven’t installed updates like Security update for MS Office 2007 suites (there are 4), Security update for MS Office PowerPint 2007 (there are 2), Updates for Outlook, PowerPoint, Outlook Help, PowerPoint 2007.
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