Windows XP is an Operating system Word Excel etc are part of Ms Office
If this is a OEM store bought PC(Hp Dell Gateway etc) it may be possible
that somwhere on that disk ,since you said its a recovery disk, the Office
products you are asking for are availble there
If not the manufacturer of the PC may have them on another disk you should
contact them for assistance

If you bought an OEM computer - HP, Dell, Sony, etc. - then your
computer came with a "bundle" of preinstalled software such as MS
Office. The XP operating system does not include applications like
that. If you reinstalled Windows, you'll need to reinstall your
applications from the installation media.

Malke

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:30:03 -0800 from Helen
<Helen@discussions.microsoft.com>:

Word and Excel aren't part of Windows. Probably whoever you bought
the computer from pre-loaded them (or the full Microsoft Access
suite) before turning the computer over to you. You should have been
given the install disc; if not, and you were supposed to have Office
as part of your purchase, go and ask for the disc.

AFAIK -- and I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong -- Microsoft
doesn't play the silly games with Office for OEMs -- if Office comes
on your computer, you're supposed to get the physical disc as well.

    Simply use the CD from which Office was originally installed to
re-install it.  If Office came pre-installed on your computer, the
necessary installation CD and documentation will be with the rest of the
CDs and paperwork that came with the computer.

   Neither the Microsoft Office application suite, nor any of its
individual component applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access,
Outlook,  etc.), have _ever_ been "part" of *any* Windows operating
system.  They are, and always have been, separate applications, that
must be purchased and installed separately.

   Microsoft Office does comes pre-installed on new computers when the
computer manufacturer chooses to offer it, and the purchaser is willing
to pay extra for it.