Office 2007

[The Penguin]

There are plenty of other apps to accomplish basic word processing.

Yup there plenty including online ones. It seems many people these days is using Google Docs to create their documents.

 

[puzzlingbill]

I just use Open Office. Looks like Microsoft Office only it's free.

I've used Open Office for years and also recommend it. Here's a link to the Open Office site if you want to try it out.

I use another free program, Thunderbird (from Mozilla, the Firefox people), for mail and calendar. Here's a link to their site.

 

[The Penguin]

I've used Open Office for years and also recommend it. Here's a link to the Open Office site if you want to try it out.

I use another free program, Thunderbird (from Mozilla, the Firefox people), for mail and calendar. Here's a link to their site.

I have used both before and I can recommend both.

 

[Mia]

Something for some of us to ponder, anyways. Whether or not we truly need such software.

It's rare that I actually require word processing software, the only time I've used it in the past was a legal document that I wrote. That was a few years back. Since then it's email or notepad. Writing papers for school was the last real instance I can think of and that was quite a while ago. Wrote many of them on wordstar! Which came with a bible size manual.

 

[The Penguin]

As it is, I'm more concerned about losing Outlook and Word. My dissertation is in Word, as is all of my other important writings. I write quite a bit. If I could somehow get those two without all the other stuff, I would be quite happy.

I would test open source software to find what meet your needs so you don't need to depend on paid software.

The first step when trying the new software, see if it opens your existing word documents. If you find one that can open all, or almost all of them, that solution might can work for you.

There many open source email clients as well that can migrate Outlook inbox to the new email program.

 

[Judge]

The only things I use are Outlook for my e-mail and Word. I've never really learned how to use Excel and I managed to make a Power Point presentation a few years ago. However, I was the only one to view it, so it was a waste of time.

As it is, I'm more concerned about losing Outlook and Word. My dissertation is in Word, as is all of my other important writings. I write quite a bit. If I could somehow get those two without all the other stuff, I would be quite happy.

First and foremost, copy your dissertation to multiple text formats like .txt, .rtf., .doc, etc.. That way you won't need to rely solely on Microsoft to maintain the integrity of your intellectual property. You can always reformat for print depending on the word processing program you have at the time.

 

[puzzlingbill]

The only things I use are Outlook for my e-mail and Word. I've never really learned how to use Excel and I managed to make a Power Point presentation a few years ago. However, I was the only one to view it, so it was a waste of time.

As it is, I'm more concerned about losing Outlook and Word. My dissertation is in Word, as is all of my other important writings. I write quite a bit. If I could somehow get those two without all the other stuff, I would be quite happy.

I haven't had any problems importing documents from Word into the Open Office Writer, except when a new version of Word changes the format, it takes a while before Open Office Writer can read it. If your files are in anything other than the latest version of Word you won't have any problems.

 

[The Penguin]

It came with an eMachine that was running Windows ME. Anyone remember that?

Very horrible OS. Remember it well.