[AT] Off topic Open Office and computer associations.

[charlie hill]

Thanks Mike.  I'll check that out.

Charlie
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From: "Mike" <msm10301 at juno.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic Open Office and computer associations.


> Charlie, I think MS has a conversion program that can convert Works 
> documents to .doc format.  Mike M
>
> -- "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks David,  So far the only problem I've had is that   I can't get it 
> to
> open documents written in MS Works Wordprocessor.  It's basically just a
> scaled down version of Word and Word will open the files.  For some reason
> OpenOffice doesn't recognize them.
>
> charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic Open Office and computer associations.
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>
>> Charlie,
>>
>> I've used OpenOffice for several years and I'm sold on its utility.
>> Most MS Office files will be handled well - especially Word Docs.  The
>> spreadsheet is also very good.  The only area I've found a bit of a
>> compatibility problem with is Powerpoint.  Not bad just little things.
>>
>> Can't beat the price for sure.
>>
>> I've used it with Win98 and XP.
>>
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
>> charlie hill wrote:
>>> Thanks again Vaughn.  That seems to have done the trick.  So far I'm
>>> happy
>>> with "Open Office".  If any of you don't have MS Office (powerpoint, XL,
>>> MSWord, etc) this software is supposed to work seamlessly with it.  The
>>> spreadsheat looks identical to XL.  It's free.
>>>
>>> charlie
>>
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