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YouTube - Facebook - Twitter - About. Technology in terms you understand. Sign up for the Confident Computing newsletter for weekly solutions to make your life easier. Click here and get The Ask Leo! I was a college student at the time. In this excerpt from Answercast 28 , I look at ways to save a downloaded program during a reinstall. The thing to do in situations like that — when you get a download as your distribution of any software be it Microsoft Office or anything else — is to save the file that you downloaded; pretend that is your master copy of the software… because it is.

But whatever — save the original installation download! A traditional Windows installation will, in fact, reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows from scratch. In doing so, it will erase all of the other software on your machine… including Microsoft Office. A repair install actually attempts to install Windows in place, on top of the existing copy of Windows, while preserving all of the installed settings and software.

The way to do that with Windows 7 is to, essentially, tell it to upgrade your existing version when you boot from the Windows 7 installation media. It may be that whatever is causing you to reinstall Windows is, in fact, one of those things: and it will be preserved. The only other option I can offer is if you are strapped for cash and you do need to reformat and reinstall for real look into something from Open Office or Libre Office, which is a free and open source Office equivalent.

Subscribe to Confident Computing! NOW: name your own price! You decide how much to pay -- and yes, that means you can get this report completely free if you so choose. Get your copy now! Plus, I still use DOS-Works-3 for all my little databases; again, nothing further is really necessary. Develop proficiency in using what you have. If you have Office you could try downloading a trial version of Office and validating it with your key. Rather than a repair install first try running your Windows 7 CD from within Windows after a reboot.

Start setup and choose upgrade, Windows will check all the system and make sure all the upgrades are correct but will not loose any pro grammes. This route is only workable if your Windows CD is uptodate. It depends upon type of re-install. If you simply upgrade your OS to a newer version, chances are you will be able to use Office even afterwards. It also depends on Office bit type and OS bit type which you are going to upgrade.

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What If I Need It? If you don't have it, you could be severely out of luck. I'll review alternatives. I hope it would be of some help.

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