I have one computer with XP Pro and Office 2003 and a new laptop with Vista Premium Home and Works 8.5. As Word for Works is not interchangeable with Office Word; or so I have been told, if I buy Home & Teacher Office 2003 will I be able to install just Office Word on the laptop? I want to be able to work on the laptop and then transfer the work to the desk top PC with XP Pro
I am a complete technophobe so please bear with my ignorance.
I hit a similar problem a while back - I decided the cheapest option was to use the freeware Openoffice.org (which is up to v2.2 I believe) which has excellent Word compatibility. Also has the advantage of no licence or activation probs.
In fact, find myself using OpenOffice more than M$ offering nowadays… Got mine from a magazine coverdisk, but it can be downloaded from here OpenOffice
Hope that helps
wheelieslug is correct.
OOo is a very good Office clone. I use it regularly for University work so it should be fine for what you want. Compatibilitiy is very good. Only thing I have found is the formula’s. If a document has a formula done in Office, it’ll throw an error message up when you open it but work fine :shrug: And that affects the Linux version of OOo only as well. 
so it wouldn’t affect you.
If you bought Office 2003, you can choose what to install but not sure about the Home and Teacher Office.
To Wheelieslug and Drezha many thanks. Advice most helpful and will do Open Office
Shaxta:)