Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Word
I have currently got a Dell Dimension desktop and I have got the microsoft works package with word processor, spreadsheet and database etc.
My problem is that I have nowhere near as many features on microsoft works word processor as I do on microsoft word which I use at work for many documents.
Is there a download therefore for Microsoft WORD.
My problem is that I have nowhere near as many features on microsoft works word processor as I do on microsoft word which I use at work for many documents.
Is there a download therefore for Microsoft WORD.
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OpenOffice 2 is the latest incarnation of Sun's OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/
It's a fullblown office suite that is 99.9 compatible with Microsoft's overpriced (and buggy) stuff - the only places that it may stumble a bit is opening very complex interlaced Word or Excel documents (which very few people create anyway). Reads and writes lots of formats including the MS ones.
Available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD and Mac - so you can have a common Office Suite in a mixed environment.
To be honest I think that it's now better than MSOffice in many ways. I hardly ever use MSOffice anymore.
And it's completely free, no strings.
Join the wave of the OpenDocument future!
PS: MS's "Works" was/is an awful, incompatible, very limited and buggy abortion that Gates should be ashamed of having produced (if he hed any shame). It was _just_ enough to get you hooked and so bad that you ended up going out and spending lots of dosh on the full Office (which was what was intended).
It's a fullblown office suite that is 99.9 compatible with Microsoft's overpriced (and buggy) stuff - the only places that it may stumble a bit is opening very complex interlaced Word or Excel documents (which very few people create anyway). Reads and writes lots of formats including the MS ones.
Available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD and Mac - so you can have a common Office Suite in a mixed environment.
To be honest I think that it's now better than MSOffice in many ways. I hardly ever use MSOffice anymore.
And it's completely free, no strings.
Join the wave of the OpenDocument future!
PS: MS's "Works" was/is an awful, incompatible, very limited and buggy abortion that Gates should be ashamed of having produced (if he hed any shame). It was _just_ enough to get you hooked and so bad that you ended up going out and spending lots of dosh on the full Office (which was what was intended).
