Betsy,
Ah Word Perfect. That was a *real* word processor. I used it to write
my MS thesis on an Atari 1040. As I support my Mom (87) on her Mac, I
think you definitely do not want to change anything she uses now
(especially the word processor) as she is used to everything and it just
works fine for her.
I hope you find a person to rebuild her machine. If no luck finding a
person, I think you next best choice is to see if she can get someone to
box up the machine and send it to you (I have done this with one
person). I then rebuilt it, labeled all cables, etc. and with lots of
pictures they were able to get it back together and working. Then put
something like join.me on it so you can see and even control her screen
(I did this with my mom and it worked great).
Good luck,
cheers,
ski
On 08/17/2013 10:42 AM, Betsy Schwartz wrote:
PS I think Mom would *like* a Mac, but finding one and getting it onto the
internet, installing new software, migrating her data , and teaching her
the new OS is: also a big job. Mom's an independent adult and if she wants
to work with someone to do that, more power to her. I'm too far away.
Caveat that switching software confuses the heck out of her and trying to
switch OS, mail program, browser, and editor all at once would be painful
and require a lot of followup phone support. And it would completely cut
her off from support from me. I've sometimes managed to pull her out of a
jam by opening exactly the same program she's using and reading the menus
step by step. When I can't do that, like for Word Perfect which I don't
own, or when my Windows 7 Pro doesn't match her Windows 7 Home, our phone
support sessions end up completely dead in the water. I don't have a Mac
(or want one)
(did I mention that Mom is editing an 800-page book using Word Perfect? Her
fourth? With massive footnotes? Switching word processors alone is not a
trivial task)
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