check out
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
download the approx 120 meg package, install it & off you go in
opening word.exel,pps docs
it normally saves them in a "open doc" standard but just save
as.....& your win guys can read it
i'm using it for the last year & in our club we exchange between
2004/2007 word & neooffice as well as open office
http://www.openoffice.org/ (needs X11 on mac)
neooffice is a mac port of openoffice
bear in mind it's free (donation appreciated) that means worth a try
cheer James
On 11/07/2008, at 18:08, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
Up until this month I have managed communications with the dark
side with Appleworks. However I have received two Word documents
that I could not open and had to pass on to my PC son who opened
and saved them as pdfs.
MS Office 2008 (office version) is retailing for about $200 and I
thought I had better take the plunge. My other Mac son runs MS
Office 2004 but it would seem like going backwards to try and
obtain a copy of such. However, as there have been four years
between updates maybe it is good work horse.
For those using the 2008 version are you finding it stable,
backward compatible to say Office 98 or Word 6, unexpected issues
to watch for?
Your comments valued.
Comments from users of the 2004 version also appreciated.
Merv
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