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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 20, 2014 7:43:23 GMT -5
My old PC gave up the ghost. The tech said it was the "mother board" and the cost was enough that a new one would be a better option. So I bought a new one with touch screen capability. LOTS of changes
I finally figured out how to use my old HP 1115 PhotoSmart printer by downloading an alternate driver. I've reloaded all my bookmarks.
Now, I need to get an "office" type program. I had MicroSoft office on my old PC but I have been looking at a free (yeah, I'm a cheapskate ) program called Open Office. Reports are it is as good as MS Office and will use docs for MS Office. Anyone here had any dealings with Open Office?
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Post by steve46511 on Sept 20, 2014 8:53:25 GMT -5
Many of the open source programs are gaining popularity and office is one of the biggies. PCmag has rated it 4 out of 5 and gives the pros and cons to the program www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1848660,00.asp I've not used it on MY computer but have on a buddy's and it performed as I wished but I supposed it depends on what all one wishes it to do. More and more of even some of the top businesses of the world use open source software and such was the case for the company I left when I retired but there are pros and cons regardless of which you choose. www.hostway.com/blog/open-source-vs-proprietary-software-which-platform-is-winning/My own opinion is "free" is free to try and free to uninstall too, should it not serve my purposes. With a reminder I have for myself to ALWAYS create a "restore point" on my computer that I label "before downloading xyz program". Should I face any issues and experience anything "off" in performance I can simply use the restore option and "go back" to where I was. System restore has the , for me, desired characteristic that it when restoring to a previous time and system, ALL the downloaded items that change anything in the registry are gone. Many times in the past I have "uninstalled" a program and later found leftover issues within the registry remaining from that uninstall. Windows restore actually goes back TO the previous registry settings, therefore removing any and all changes made after that particular restore point but does NOT remove personal files, bookmarks and the like that I only wish to remove manually. 2 cents God Bless |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 9:00:46 GMT -5
Enroll in a college course and you can get Office for free. Of course, that only makes sense if you need to take a college course. Hope that was helpful.  |
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 20, 2014 9:10:31 GMT -5
Enroll in a college course and you can get Office for free. Of course, that only makes sense if you need to take a college course. Hope that was helpful. I have had all the "book learning" I need..  Steve, Thanks for the information. That PC Magazine article is about what I had heard on the Open Office. I'll give it a "Free" try... |
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Post by parson on Sept 20, 2014 14:05:15 GMT -5
I have Open Office and have used it, but not extensively. In my limited usage it has performed just fine.
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Post by goosepondmonster on Sept 20, 2014 16:36:28 GMT -5
You should be good to go with Open Office. One thing to note, make sure you do a save as and pick an extension that works for MS if you plan to share files with others.
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 20, 2014 19:17:58 GMT -5
You should be good to go with Open Office. One thing to note, make sure you do a save as and pick an extension that works for MS if you plan to share files with others. I just downloaded it. Different but not too bad. Might take a little getting used to. Thanks for the tip.. I'll be taking both PCs to the shop Monday and having the tech transfer my old files to the new PC.. They are all MS files so I hope that they will work with OpenOffice.. |
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Post by goosepondmonster on Sept 20, 2014 19:31:51 GMT -5
They will. It will read all Office file extensions.
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Post by michaeladkins on Sept 21, 2014 9:20:30 GMT -5
For all those who have a valid .mil (military) email address, you can get a copy of ms office for $15. I think that is what I paid for my Mac version but that was a couple years ago.
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 21, 2014 9:55:09 GMT -5
For all those who have a valid .mil (military) email address, you can get a copy of ms office for $15. I think that is what I paid for my Mac version but that was a couple years ago. That's cool!!! |
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