My "NEW" Vista PC has a Trial Version of MS Office which includes WORD. I do not need either one, because Word Pad will do fine for me. However, creating a DOC in Word Pad and "Save as" Word opens and saves it in Word after I decline to activate MS Office. I only can do this 25 times and God knows what happens then. Has someone figured out how to go around that or do I have to spend the Money for MS Office? (Which I don't ever use). Thanks.

uninstall it from you computer completely from the control panel, and the navigate to the icon that says programs and features and go down the list till you see office 2007. Jim R

To change Vista File association for Wordpad, read the following article. http://ask-leo.com/where_did_file_a... i_Xp/VistaUser

isn't Rich Text the default Wordpad format? in case you want to keep MSO for later activation, open my computer, go to Tools, Folder Options, File Types and associate *.DOC with Wordpad. or have a look at these alternatives: http://www.openoffice.org/ http://www.abisource.com/ both free, open source and pretty much compatible to their MS counterparts.

Duh you're rite The_oracle. The other option to save files in Wordpad is the plain vanilla TXT file extension. i_Xp/VistaUser

although wordpad is able to save as DOC, i wouldn't call it 'compatible' to Word i'd go with RTF ... not much formatting with TXT :)

uninstall Microsoft Office then download and install this FREE program http://www.openoffice.org/