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| Thread ID: 57392 | 2005-05-01 06:48:00 | Problem with MS Word | symiggy (7597) | Press F1 |
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| 351021 | 2005-05-04 00:40:00 | Murray P I am seriously considering Open office. Which may ultimately be the solution. I don't think I have the expertise to carry out your other suggestions but thanks for your interest. |
symiggy (7597) | ||
| 351022 | 2005-05-04 01:04:00 | Hi symiggy. Not wishing to throw cold water on the previous suggestion, but I have just given Open Office a reasonable several months trial and dumped it. I personally do not see it as more powerful than the Microsoft product and it caused me some concerns over the way it opened some files and the way it treated some graphics contained in files created on my machine in Word and those sent to me. Just suggesting that you not be in a rush to dump what I consider to be the best word processing and light publishing programme yet. ;) | Scouse (83) | ||
| 351023 | 2005-05-04 01:10:00 | Hi Scouse Point taken. But that still leaves me where I started. |
symiggy (7597) | ||
| 351024 | 2005-05-04 05:39:00 | Hi symiggy. Not wishing to throw cold water on the previous suggestion, but I have just given Open Office a reasonable several months trial and dumped it. I personally do not see it as more powerful than the Microsoft product Not wishing to diveret from the topic, but: Your saying MS Works is better :horrified come off it, Works is a cut down disabled version. I've been using Open Office constantly for my business for the past month after some toe dipping and at this stage I doubt I will ever go back to MS Office. However, I don't use the full range of Office's (either vendors) functions or programmes being concerned mainly with report type word processing and files with lots of graphics. While I haven't come to grips yet with some of the OO quirks, I find it delvers more than I can use. If you want to collaborate on production of documents, then that's a different matter. Most of mine have converted to MS doc type, for sending for comment, just fine. Converting the other way hasen't always been exact, a spreadsheet with special functions was a bit of a bother, but then I still have MS Office on hand if I need to comment or annotate someone elses work, which is admittedly very rare for me. So, if you don't have to bother with sharing documents for collaboration and the like, give it a try, but keep MS Works handy. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 351025 | 2005-05-04 05:59:00 | Hi Murray. I come in peace. I read the original post to mean that our friend was using Word. I use Word 2003 on one machine and Word 2000 on another, although one of them also has an old Works 4.5 on board - I kept this for older spreadsheets which I was too lazy to transfer. The Word programmes are my benchmarks whenever I consider a change. Interesting, but of no help to the poster. I can't for the life of me see what is preventing his use of the characters. ;) | Scouse (83) | ||
| 351026 | 2005-05-04 08:59:00 | Yeah, thought you might have been thinking Word/Office too long after I made the post . Peace :thumbs: The main issue I have with OO Writer is the dictionary/thesaurus and text fields . The former is sadly lacking but Word Web has overcome that and is in my view the best I have used, the latter uses input dialogue boxes rather than direct entry into the field for which, I haven't figured out if there is a work around yet . All in all, I prefer it, others will hate it . |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 351027 | 2005-05-04 12:27:00 | Hi Murray - not wanting to hijack simiggy's post - I too use WordWeb and again like it so much that I made them a donation too recently for the upgrade to WordWeb Pro. I reckon it is great. ;) | Scouse (83) | ||
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