Rebel's answer was excellent. Assuming that you bought Office with one of your dells, which makes it OEM, you might consider Open Office.
It's free and it will open most Microsoft Office files. It lacks some features (the database frontend is completely lacking) and is perhaps a bit slow and resource intensive, but overall it's not a bad program.
Eyeneedhelp2, the rules are in microsoft's liscense agreement that you accept when you first install the software. Dell does not determine these rules.
Open Office is a free alternative, made for reasons similar to what you're feeling right now. It's a work in progress, but it's become stable and very usable over the past year or so.
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February 29th, 2008 02:00
There are 2 different scenarios:
Retail Version of Office:
Home & Student Edition can be installed on up to 3 computers. Any other version can be installed on ONE primary computer and one portable computer.
OEM Version of Office:
All versions can only be installed on ONE computer.
So in answer to your question, unless you have the Home and Student Retail Edtion, you will have to purchase additional copies.
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February 29th, 2008 04:00
Rebel's answer was excellent. Assuming that you bought Office with one of your dells, which makes it OEM, you might consider Open Office.
It's free and it will open most Microsoft Office files. It lacks some features (the database frontend is completely lacking) and is perhaps a bit slow and resource intensive, but overall it's not a bad program.
http://www.openoffice.org/
eyeneedhelp2
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February 29th, 2008 10:00
Thank you ... for the information. that doesn't seem fair ... WOW! who makes the situation so ... dell or microsoft?
NemesisDB
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February 29th, 2008 11:00
Eyeneedhelp2, the rules are in microsoft's liscense agreement that you accept when you first install the software. Dell does not determine these rules.
Open Office is a free alternative, made for reasons similar to what you're feeling right now. It's a work in progress, but it's become stable and very usable over the past year or so.