Milly,

I'm thrilled with it! All I wanted to do was open the work I'd done in
Microsoft's Office, which Microsoft's Works was incapable of doing. Open
Office opens both seamlessly. And it's free. Thanks for all your help!

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

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After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :-)
||
|| "Joanne" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter