Re: Office on SBS 2003

From: Henry Craven (IUnknown_at_Dot.Nyet)
Date: 10/25/04


Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:07:07 +1000

Office Products have free "reader" only versions,
Word Viewer, Excel Viewer etc that the users can download and install.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/results.aspx?Scope=DC&Query=word+viewer

-- 
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
    Melbourne Australia
"ScottB" <ScottB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D9F59E65-5303-466B-9F0B-01F7459116D8@microsoft.com...
> We own a few retail stores and use a SBS 2003 server to house company
> documents and accounting data - the company intranet has turned out to
be a
> wonderful place place for employees to access data remotely (from our
stores,
> or from their homes).  However, if an employee does not have Office on
their
> home computer, they can not open the documents that are stored on the
server
> (Excel, Word, etc).  Can I install a version of Office on the server
to
> support this occasional need?
>
> Thanks, Scott


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