halp

[amand_r]

this netbook has no word program, and it is very very wee. It has no cd drive for me to install from disc. Is there a good free word processing program out there? googledocs is fine and all, but i want to be able to work offline.

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[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

Open Office for the mother fucking win!

One thing you will need to do with open office, though, is if you want it to save into doc format, rather than its own thingy:

Tools > Options > Load/Save > General

In the 'Document type' header down the bottom, change the 'Always save as' to Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP.

Then, in the other flick down box, select 'Spreadsheet' and change the 'always save as' to Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP. Then, select 'Presentation' and change the 'always save as' to Microsoft Power Point 97/2000/XP.

Hope that helps. :)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

yOU ARE A GEM.

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Used to do that at least three times a day when I was doing Work For The Dole. (I used to rebuild/refurbish old computers for charity. OO.org was a staple, since there's no way we could afford legal Microsoft Office.)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

It seems good, so far.

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd miss all the shiny Office '07 thingies... but I haven't.

I loved Office '07's tabulated menus, but it became unstable and fucked up so regularly that it just wasn't practical any more. I think some file somewhere corrupted or something.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I actually hate all Microsoft Word versions after 97, and so I just keep installing it on my computers (the disk hasn't seemed to notice that I've installed it on like 15 different machines.). But this computer-- no disk drive! WAAAAA!