Let's GO, Geek O! 2 problems with Microsoft Word

Poststructural Pub
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This will fix it; http://www.openoffice.org/

IT’s FREE!!! Works better too. :slight_smile: Get the beta. Runs on windows and Linux

It even can open/save files in M$ Word format!

Fix ALL windows problems!
http://www.mepis.org/


:smiley:
Didn’t say you wouldnt switch OS’s!

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Microsoft products working as advertized? You gotta be kidding.

All I can say is “keep the standards standard” and then I will use your (probably still broken) software.

There is something better, but free in $ cost:

Open Office

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When I started at the medical office where I work 13 years ago, they were just getting their first computer for transcription work. Since I’m the transcriptionist I was allowed to choose my software, and since I’d never used anything but WordPerfect, I chose that. Over the years computers have been added to many aspects of our clinic and every one of them is set up with Word. We have problems arise occasionally because I can’t email them files without converting them to Word first, something we haven’t been able to do smoothly yet. They all insist Word is the only way to go, but any time I have to do something on someone else’s computer and have to use Word, I run into issues that are so simple to do in WordPerfect that are so done in such puzzling ways in Word.

My boss complains about it occasionally, but has never insisted that I switch to Word because she admits I’m invaluable. :slight_smile: WordPerfect rocks!

Susan

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word sucks :laughing:

Seriously, OOO files are about half the sise of a word file. Same document, different format. Tell me one thing that word is better at than OOO.

You can even run OOO off a USB key!

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I just had another look at OpenOffice. The last time I tried it, it seemed confusing. Either I am benefitting from a recent cup of coffee, or it’s improved.

Dale

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That’s funny because my experience is exactly the opposite. Whenever I am forced to use WordPerfect (some of my clients require it), I am struck by how unstable and buggy it is (I’m using version 10 for Windows); it crashes frequently and is generally more cumbersome than Word. The “track changes” feature in Word Perfect is years behind Word.