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Church Mouse · 25-09-2005, 15:48

Hello,

I would appreciate some advice if anyone can help, please.

I have a laptop (Toshiba) with Microsoft Works 7 installed.

I use Excel and Powerpoint, but these are not installed on the laptop, I often need to open Excel docs sent to me.

I have heard that Open Ofice is an excellent free programme that will do all that I need, but that I need to be careful when installing which boxes to check re opening docs etc. (Not sure what this means, person that told me did not know either.)

I would appreciate, if possible, any advice re installing this programme and if there is likely to be any conflict with MS Works 7.

Thank you

Church Mouse.

bdav · 25-09-2005, 16:38

If you only want to view, you could use microsoft excell viewer. Thats free, so you wouldnt need another licence.

Halcyon · 25-09-2005, 16:38

I think you just need to tell it not to make OpenOffice the default programme for opening documents when you install.

Its really good for a free piece of software and it will let you save in all the normal MS Office file types as well as its own filenames.

Ramrod · 25-09-2005, 16:42

What he said ^^^

aliferste · 25-09-2005, 19:06

I hate to repeat what people have said but I would like to add that if you cannot get Microsoft free then open office is a mighty fine bit of Kit !!

bdav · 25-09-2005, 19:16

Its fine untill you want to open a powerpoint doc. Everything is shown in the wrong place.

Mal · 25-09-2005, 19:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by bdav

Its fine untill you want to open a powerpoint doc. Everything is shown in the wrong place.

Never had any problems with it