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Installing A Printer Onto My Laptop

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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    If you have another word processing program (Works, Open Office etc) on your PC then yes you should be able to open a Word file (.doc) within it and print from it.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • livelyred
    livelyred Posts: 2,367 Forumite
    No i dont as the pc is quite old
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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    Unusual to have a PC without any type of WP program on it? Are you running XP?
    You could download Open Office and use that, it's licence-free software.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • livelyred
    livelyred Posts: 2,367 Forumite
    macman wrote: »
    Unusual to have a PC without any type of WP program on it? Are you running XP?
    You could download Open Office and use that, it's licence-free software.
    I probably do have WP but to be honest im not really that clued up with pcs.I have XP but its not updated at all Have you the link for the open office and will it open the file for my daughters homework ?
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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    www.openoffice.org. It a big file so you will need a bb connection to download it.
    PS: if you are running XP without SP2 or SP3 updates, your PC is not secure and you should run Windows Updates as a priority.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • livelyred
    livelyred Posts: 2,367 Forumite
    macman wrote: »
    www.openoffice.org. It a big file so you will need a bb connection to download it.
    PS: if you are running XP without SP2 or SP3 updates, your PC is not secure and you should run Windows Updates as a priority.
    Whats a bb connection ? Im sure i have downloaded this before and it still didnt open the file ?
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  • macman
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    Broadband. If you already have Open Office installed on your PC it should work fine. Just open the Word doc from within Open Office. Don't just double click the Word file on the desktop as it will probably look unsuccessfully for Word to open it.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • livelyred
    livelyred Posts: 2,367 Forumite
    Right i am downloading this again as i did uninstall it i will tell you how i get on,you know when i click on the file as its saved in my email which my daughter sent me,you open the file then it should be there ?
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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    It will be an attachment to the email. Right click on it, save it to your desktop or documents or wherever you prefer.
    Then open it from within open office as per my previous post. You cannot open it from within your email program.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • m_13
    m_13 Posts: 990 Forumite
    Any joy with getting the printer installed?
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