Word Program ?
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Topic: Word Program ?
Posted By: Bubie
Subject: Word Program ?
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 10:37am
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Hi There
I have a verison of the new Microsoft office but wither need a activation code or to spend $300 and buy it, id rather not buy it at all, But i do need to be able to type some stuff up, im wondering if anyone knows of a good program like Word that i can download for free and it is quite easy to work ? This would be much appreciated  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 10:48am
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You can download a free 90 day trial of MS Word from the internet, have you tried that?
The only other totally free wordprocessor I know of is AbiWord, but I've never actually tried it (a friend in a similar situation mentioned it) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bubie
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 10:50am
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Yeah i tried to get the activation key to try it but it never worked :( ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Renee & Lauren
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 11:22am
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you could try open office - it's free to download and has most of the same things as word - they also have one for excel as well ------------- http://lilyslim.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MrsH23
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 11:58am
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We use open office here, although I haven't needed to type anything for ages so not sure how good it is, DH uses it to change his CV etc with no problems. ------------- Lisa mummy to Ryan http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 12:03pm
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Open office is great. ------------- 
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Posted By: happymum21
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 12:33pm
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Yep Open Office is good, very similar to MS office too. ------------- Becs |
Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 8:07pm
| Just one word of caution....if you're using Open Office or any other word processing program, it's likely that you won't be able to use your documents to apply online for a job. Open Office will open MS Word docs (but stuff up the formatting) but MS Word can't open Open Office documents (it's a different file format). |
Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 8:39pm
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Im pretty sure you can save the file to be compatible with Word. You need to go file-save as *.doc
In the options I believe you can actually change it to save files in MS Office formats by default as well. -------------
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Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 28 October 2010 at 10:05pm
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I was going to say what Kellie said you can save open office docs in word format. I used to do this before I got microsoft office.
I have a few exercises that you can do in open office if you need them from uni. How to do drawings, save things etc. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Bubie
Date Posted: 29 October 2010 at 7:31am
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Awsome, thank you heaps, im only wanting it to write some stuff to print out and i downloaded it and it works great ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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