At 10:46 PM 1/31/2007, Charlie Schlismann wrote:
>Notebook crashed and has been replaced but I'd rather not pay for
>Word/Excel when I had a perfectly acceptable alternative w/the freeware.
http://www.openoffice.org/
It's purely free, and OpenOffice.org 2.1 is so good, there's no point
even reading all that !@#$ fine print to see IF your copy of MS
Office allows multiple installs (while some do, others do not -
notable the "OEM" copies you get pre-installed on machines, which may
not even be eligible to transfer to another it the original PC gets
destroyed.) I haven't even installed MSO on a home or work PC in a few years.
It has features MSO doesn't, like exporting to PDF files. If you're
sending out quotes or other business documents, they should be in a
read-only format like PDF. OOo also has no friggin' animated
paperclips or similar BS. You can install it in less than a minute,
and uninstall just as easily, with no reboot, reboot, reboot bulls@@t
microsoft inflicts.
One thing you'll want to do initially is go into Tools / Options /
Load-Save and set it to use MS Office formats by default. The rest
works nicely as-is.
-Wayne
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