You can still read them (even without installing anything else). WordPad opens .doc files, though if you make changes, you'll have to save as .rtf files, as WordPad doesn't save in the .doc format.
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P.M. Marc - Nov 07, 2006 9:15:09 pm PST #9438 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Gudanov - Nov 08, 2006 6:05:13 am PST #9439 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
OpenOffice is pretty good these days. It's what I use at home.
www.openoffice.org
Typo Boy - Nov 08, 2006 7:43:11 am PST #9440 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Really slow and bloaty though - it takes a lot to be more bloatware than MS Office, but open office manages it.
It does work very well ; I think the word processor handles graphics and modest desktop editing better than word. I will not compose in it, but I use OpenOffice for its extensive translation capabilities, and at times for final edits and final layout.
SuziQ - Nov 08, 2006 7:47:48 am PST #9441 of 10003
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I use OpenOffice cause I can't afford MS Office. It works, but I get frustrated with it more than with Word. Probably cause I'm more used to the shortcuts in Word and they don't always work in OpenOffice.
Gudanov - Nov 08, 2006 7:52:11 am PST #9442 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
It works pretty well for me, but I didn't like it until version 2.0. I'd recommend having Java 1.5 installed first (maybe this is only an issue with Linux though and the craptasic faux java that is installed by default in many versions of Linux). However, this is on Linux not on Windows.
Abiword is another option for word processing that is lighter weight. The interface might look a little funky on Windows though.
P.M. Marc - Nov 08, 2006 7:53:39 am PST #9443 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Really slow and bloaty though - it takes a lot to be more bloatware than MS Office, but open office manages it.
Heh. The version I'm running (the most recent) doesn't. That's one of the reasons I run it, frankly. It's much faster and less prone to eating my resources, and as I'm only using it for WP, it gives me all I need.
Typo Boy - Nov 08, 2006 8:20:06 am PST #9444 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Interesting. I have the latest too, and it is much slower than Word 97. I wonder what I'm doing wrong with open office.
P.M. Marc - Nov 08, 2006 8:43:29 am PST #9445 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Interesting. I have the latest too, and it is much slower than Word 97. I wonder what I'm doing wrong with open office.
AH!
See, I haven't used Word 97 in... a really long time. So I'm comparing it to later versions of Word.
tommyrot - Nov 08, 2006 8:45:28 am PST #9446 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
See, I haven't used Word 97 in... a really long time. So I'm comparing it to later versions of Word.
Huh. I still use Word 97 on my work PC.
Up until recently we still did a lot of development on Access 97, some of which had to use VBA to control Word.
P.M. Marc - Nov 08, 2006 9:03:00 am PST #9447 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Huh. I still use Word 97 on my work PC.
I haven't used '97 since Word 2000 came out.
I still use 2000 on one of my home machines, and Word XP on another.