Question:

Hi Tony

I have a new laptop at home that has Vista Home Premium. I am really disappointed to find that when I email work Excel spreadsheets to my home computer – spreadsheets with several tabs of worksheets, Vista will only allow me to open one tab at a time in the Vista spreadsheet program This is so annoying as often I need to be flicking from one sheet to the other.

Also, when I email myself a Word doc from work and open it in Vista’s Wordprocesser program, often the formatting goes all over the place, and it does not recognize certain features that were used on the original Word doc.

I feel like I have got extremely basic versions of the the Word and Excel docs I am used to working with and I am amazed that Vista’s packages don’t seem very compatible.

Do I need to get Ultimate to fix these issues? Does everyone have these problems?

Cheers,

Adrianne

Answer: Hi, Adrianne. Vista doesn’t include any version of Office. It sounds like your computer manufacturer gave you some old or sub-par version of Office; it’s a pretty common practice to keep the price of the computer down. You don’t mention the version of Office you have, but I suggest you upgrade to the same version you currently use at work (for example, Office 2003 or Office 2007).