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I'm defeated. And I'm willling to change.
I looked all over the galaxy for an older version of Office X. Couldn't find it. I did find endless comments about the evil empire and how I'm being an idiot minion by clinging to the Office environment.
I'm worried about compatibility issues, i.e. emailing docs to folks. Word seems so universal, and .rtf files don't always carry formatting successfully.
The Appleworks = looks different = scary. Is is on par with Word's functionality?
What should I use instead? (running 10.1.5 on a PowerPC G4 eMac with 128mb waiting to be memory-boosted.
Please forgive all the meeping. I'll find the cluestick any minute now.
New issue:
The Inn gave me an HP Officejet 840c. Old, but a workhorse and...color!
I've been all over Versiontracker and the HP site, but every link for the driver I click gives me no love. (The download results in an error and 0 bytes transferred.)
Does anyone have the cd version that I could pay to have shipped both ways (including a special treat of thanks) ?
I could either hook it up to my OS9 iMac, or the OSX eMac.
Beej, I'm afraid your word processing options are pretty limited unless you upgrade to 10.3 or 10.4.
It's also very likely that a driver for your printer will be included in 10.4. If you want to wait a week, I'll be able to let you know for sure.
Thanks Tom. I can definitely wait. I've got other printing options at the moment.
I am massively of le sigh of resignation about the upgrade. I know you are right and, gosh darn it, I've been trying every option to avoid it. Partly due to the financial investment (doesn't ALL software then need to be upgraded?) and mostly to do with having to add memory to my machine. Gack.
Still, there is no point in having these two shiny apples on my desk, if I can't get full functionality out of them. Otherwise? Paperweights.
I see that now.
I'm worried about compatibility issues, i.e. emailing docs to folks. Word seems so universal, and .rtf files don't always carry formatting successfully.
Seriously, try OpenOffice. It's Mac and PC compatible, you can easily save things as .doc files, and it's non-evil.
Open Office for Mac requires X11. I'm not aware of an X server for Mac OS 10.1.
Try NeoOffice/J. It's a port of OpenOffice that doesn't require X11 under OS X.
