Posted: 8/6/2011 2:15:31 PM EDT
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I am helping a friend pick up a inexpensive laptop. Windows 7 does not seem to come with a decent word processor. Is there a good free one I can download for her? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Just make sure you spell it correctly, 'cause "Open Orifice" takes you to a whole other place. find this out thru experience? Damn straight! Just like if you're trying to research the causes of NYC manhole explosions, don't just Google "manhole" especially with "Safe Search" turned off. 
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Just make sure you spell it correctly, 'cause "Open Orifice" takes you to a whole other place. find this out thru experience? Yes. He ends up @ OpenOffice.org at least once a week by accident. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile 
Good one. Thanks, I'm smiley impaired on mobile, so I had to just hope it came across properly... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Or LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/
I usually run OO on my Windoze machines and LO on my Linux boxes but for no particular reason. |
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LibreOffice has forked from OO and most of the OO developers went with LO.
LibreOffice is now coming as the default office suite with Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Seems Oracle and OpenOffice's original developers couldn't agree on the future of OO so they parted ways. I've been using LibreOffice for a few months now and it seems quicker than OO so far. Good luck. |
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Quoted: Open Office. Just make sure you save the files as .doc and not .odt or whatever format OO uses. The only problem with Open Office is making sure you save your documents in the proper format. Other than that, I have no complaints and I've been using it for a couple of years. |
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Quoted: LibreOffice has forked from OO and most of the OO developers went with LO. LibreOffice is now coming as the default office suite with Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Seems Oracle and OpenOffice's original developers couldn't agree on the future of OO so they parted ways. I've been using LibreOffice for a few months now and it seems quicker than OO so far. Good luck. +1 for LibreOffice.  |
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Quoted: I would explain it but since you posted that, you can be that annoying person that emails people files that don't work. Quoted: Open Office. Just make sure you save the files as .doc and not .odt or whatever format OO uses. Why? Please stop drinking the Mikky$$oft coolade.  |
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Quoted: Quoted: I would explain it but since you posted that, you can be that annoying person that emails people files that don't work. Quoted: Open Office. Just make sure you save the files as .doc and not .odt or whatever format OO uses. Why? Please stop drinking the Mikky$$oft coolade. Perhaps you should explain your reasoning a little better, for the benefit of the OP and others, that may not be up-to-speed on the latest non-compatible version coming from Bellevue. I take it that you have never sent a .docx to somebody that was unable to open it because they had not spent $hundreds to 'upgrade' to the latest package of bugs. Different names for the same function, different places for the same options, and a 'new' look that is no better than the previous version. Personally, I have more troubles with Micro$$oft products than any other software, ever. YMMV |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I would explain it but since you posted that, you can be that annoying person that emails people files that don't work. Quoted: Open Office. Just make sure you save the files as .doc and not .odt or whatever format OO uses. Why? Please stop drinking the Mikky$$oft coolade. Perhaps you should explain your reasoning a little better, for the benefit of the OP and others, that may not be up-to-speed on the latest non-compatible version coming from Bellevue. I take it that you have never sent a .docx to somebody that was unable to open it because they had not spent $hundreds to 'upgrade' to the latest package of bugs. Different names for the same function, different places for the same options, and a 'new' look that is no better than the previous version. Personally, I have more troubles with Micro$$oft products than any other software, ever. YMMV In your case, just around on your driveway. |
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Quoted: OK.Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I would explain it but since you posted that, you can be that annoying person that emails people files that don't work. Quoted: Open Office. Just make sure you save the files as .doc and not .odt or whatever format OO uses. Why? Please stop drinking the Mikky$$oft coolade. Perhaps you should explain your reasoning a little better, for the benefit of the OP and others, that may not be up-to-speed on the latest non-compatible version coming from Bellevue. I take it that you have never sent a .docx to somebody that was unable to open it because they had not spent $hundreds to 'upgrade' to the latest package of bugs. Different names for the same function, different places for the same options, and a 'new' look that is no better than the previous version. Personally, I have more troubles with Micro$$oft products than any other software, ever. YMMV In your case, just around on your driveway. I'm totally lost. Do I need a different dictionary, or a file format conversion program? I have no idea what you mean by this driveway comment. The OP is looking for a FREE word processor, and you made a blanket statement about changing file formats, with no explanation. Perhaps my 'coolade' comment was out-of-place - I knew what you were getting at, as did you, but the OP and others could have been left out in the cold, as it were. Sometimes a little explanation can go a long way towards helping somebody that has a question. I sometimes have issues with 'just do it my way, no explanation necessary'. Do you not see the irony in the fact that the free OO understands what .docx is, but the expensive MS Office does not know about .odt? I did not mean for you to get your knickers all twisted. Enjoy your evening, I'm out. |
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Quoted: Or LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/ I usually run OO on my Windoze machines and LO on my Linux boxes but for no particular reason. I run MS office on my windows boxes - open office on my linux laptop +1 for OO..... (MS word does save as PDF also btw - since I saw that above) |
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LibreOffice has forked from OO and most of the OO developers went with LO. LibreOffice is now coming as the default office suite with Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Seems Oracle and OpenOffice's original developers couldn't agree on the future of OO so they parted ways. I've been using LibreOffice for a few months now and it seems quicker than OO so far. Good luck. +1 for LibreOffice.
On my linux machine I transitioned from OO to LO and am content with it. |
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Quoted: Or LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/ I usually run OO on my Windoze machines and LO on my Linux boxes but for no particular reason. OK, I'm going to try this out. OO.org is a memory hog on OSX. |