lizlong,

The program names are Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. They are part of Microsoft Office. See details here on the current Office packages available. You may find earlier versions of Office available on sites such as eBay but if their version is Office XP (2002) or later it is risky to purchase them as they use Microsoft's product activation and if they are activated on another system you will not be able to activate them on your computer. Individual programs from the Office suite can be purchased but their price is quite high.

If you qualify or know someone who does, the Student and Teacher Edition of Office includes the programs you are interested it at a low price. It can be installed on three computers.

Generally, the Student/Teacher Edition is the best. You are a student of something, aren't you? You should also check around with respect to upgrades. Upgrades are another alternative. The upgrade price, usually representing a serious discount from the fairly outrageous Microsoft prices (did anybody say monopoly??), may be available if you have purrchased certain other software. You have to read the fine print. There is quite a lot of fine print. The catch is that that old software must be installed on the machine on which you will install the upgrade version of Microsoft Office. Not on your old computer but on the new one Installing an old version of some software on your new machine is obviously a pointless exercise, but it if saves you $$$ it might be worth a bit of your time.