Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-11 Thread Per
Hi Gloria You get a Word-like program called Writer... Word is a program that belongs to a office-suite called Microsoft Office and that programsuite isnĀ“t free to use, like OpenOffice is. Best regards // Per Gloria Jabaut skrev: I need to write in Word. Will I get Word if I download

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-10 Thread web kracked
web kracked wrote: I had a better one I had to install a copy of MS Office 2003 on a new laptop, since he wanted to read the PowerPoints he gets from a service. He did not want the free reader or a FREE copy of OpenOffice.org that could read/write those presentations. He did not want to

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-10 Thread Jo Rice
- From: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word Jo Rice wrote: Yes but does Open Office have a wordprocessor? I have WP but when my computer crashed, I lost my registration # to it. So now I just

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-10 Thread James Knott
Jo Rice wrote: Yes but does Open Office have a wordprocessor? I have WP but when my computer crashed, I lost my registration # to it. So now I just want a simple wordprocessor which will read my WP files. Guess I will have to go shopping. Of course. It's called Writer. As I understand it,

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-10 Thread Jo Rice
] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word web kracked wrote: I had a better one I had to install a copy of MS Office 2003 on a new laptop, since he wanted to read the PowerPoints he gets from a service. He did not want the free

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-09 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Why are always people asking that (about free Word, free Powerpoint or free Excel)? Are most people so used to using pirateware that they think that they can download expensive software for free from the Internet and that there is actually some kind of organization behind it? Actually I told a

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-09 Thread John Meyer
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Why are always people asking that (about free Word, free Powerpoint or free Excel)? Are most people so used to using pirateware that they think that they can download expensive software for free from the Internet and that there is actually some kind of organization

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-09 Thread linuxmaillists
On Thursday 09 August 2007 11:50:59 Johnny Rosenberg wrote: But why are people so afraid of open source software? ...every other function will disappear... like it was some kind of virus? Please note that I am NOT complaining at the OP of this thread or anything, I just wonder why people

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-09 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Well, I know I wrote something like the stupid man, but of course I didn't really mean that he is stupid. He's a chemist and I am sure he is good at that and some other things as well. Maybe stupid wasn't the best choice of a word in this case, there are probably a better word for it. He's maybe

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-09 Thread James Knott
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Well, I know I wrote something like the stupid man, but of course I didn't really mean that he is stupid. He's a chemist and I am sure he is good at that and some other things as well. Maybe stupid wasn't the best choice of a word in this case, there are probably a better

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-09 Thread James Knott
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Why are always people asking that (about free Word, free Powerpoint or free Excel)? Are most people so used to using pirateware that they think that they can download expensive software for free from the Internet and that there is actually some kind of organization behind

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-09 Thread web kracked
I had a better one I had to install a copy of MS Office 2003 on a new laptop, since he wanted to read the PowerPoints he gets from a service. He did not want the free reader or a FREE copy of OpenOffice.org that could read/write those presentations. He did not want to pay the price to get the

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-09 Thread James Knott
web kracked wrote: I had a better one I had to install a copy of MS Office 2003 on a new laptop, since he wanted to read the PowerPoints he gets from a service. He did not want the free reader or a FREE copy of OpenOffice.org that could read/write those presentations. He did not want to

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-09 Thread Martin S
2007/8/9, John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Why are always people asking that (about free Word, free Powerpoint or free Excel)? Are most people so used to using pirateware that they think that they can download expensive software for free from the Internet and that

[users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-08 Thread Gloria Jabaut
I need to write in Word. Will I get Word if I download Open Office? Gloria Jabaut [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-08 Thread Paul
I need to write in Word. Will I get Word if I download Open Office? Gloria Jabaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] No. You will get OpenOffice if you download OpenOffice. Within OpenOffice there is a component called 'writer' which functions almost the same as MS Word. From writer you can save documents

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-08 Thread James Knott
Gloria Jabaut wrote: I need to write in Word. Will I get Word if I download Open Office? Gloria Jabaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, you will get OpenOffice, which includes Writer, along with other apps. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [users] [moderated]Using Word

2007-08-08 Thread Paul
Thanks,Paul, I'm your grandmothers age and do things rather slow. Your explaination is very helpful.The tech at Fry's told me this was how to get word but if I download every other function in my computor wil disappear? So, what exactly am I getting beside 'writer' if I download the Ope