Microsoft works/office Help please urgent

TaBunny

ahhh ha thanks matey I have looked at the site and see its FREE wow many thanks and sorry for being a bit THICK lol but I wasn't sure what you were going on about. I will wait till new computer comes and then try and download it, this comp only has 128mb ram and is so old and slow I daren't try and download any large files or it will give up the ghost lol. I have bookmarked the site many thanks again. Ooooh one more question is there anyway of transferring files from my old comp to the new one ie my photos letters cv etc without having to email them all to myself thanks.

Quincy_3

TaBunny wrote:

ahhh ha thanks matey I have looked at the site and see its FREE wow many thanks and sorry for being a bit THICK lol but I wasn't sure what you were going on about. I will wait till new computer comes and then try and download it, this comp only has 128mb ram and is so old and slow I daren't try and download any large files or it will give up the ghost lol. I have bookmarked the site many thanks again. Ooooh one more question is there anyway of transferring files from my old comp to the new one ie my photos letters cv etc without having to email them all to myself thanks.

No worries, Just jot down the link for future reference when ready to download.

Wombat

TaBunny wrote:

ahhh ha thanks matey I have looked at the site and see its FREE wow many thanks and sorry for being a bit THICK lol but I wasn't sure what you were going on about. I will wait till new computer comes and then try and download it, this comp only has 128mb ram and is so old and slow I daren't try and download any large files or it will give up the ghost lol. I have bookmarked the site many thanks again. Ooooh one more question is there anyway of transferring files from my old comp to the new one ie my photos letters cv etc without having to email them all to myself thanks.

You can copy them to floppy disk, CD (if you have a CD-Writer), USB Pen Drive and copy into the new PC. Or set up a network with a network cable and copy them over that way. Or take your hard drive out of your old PC, instal it into the new one as a slave drive and copy from the slave to Master drive.

Rex_Mundi

Openoffice is not bad (especially for a freebie).

The only slight problem I could see is if your daughters school is teaching the class to use MS Office programs. Using MS software at school, and Openoffice at home will mean she will have to learn the different interfaces/tools/commands for each program. She may not get support from her teachers for Openoffice.

Quincy_3

Kids can pick stuff up ultra quick theese days, unlike you old fella's :rotfl:

DonnyDave

I have copies of Microsoft Works Suite for my desktop and laptop. This comes with Works, Word and other programs like Encarta. See here.

It's often cheaper to buy Works Suite than Word on it's own. Works will open Excel spreadsheets, but you can download Excel Viewer for free from Microsoft. You can view Excel files but not edit them with it.

espresso

DonnyDave wrote:

It's often cheaper to buy Works Suite than Word on it's own. Works will open Excel spreadsheets, but you can download Excel Viewer for free from Microsoft. You can view Excel files but not edit them with it.

But the OP's daughter has a need Office applications like Powerpoint and Excel as stated in post #1.

DonnyDave

espresso wrote:

But the OP's daughter has a need Office applications like Powerpoint and Excel as stated in post #1.

In that case, is she entitled to purchase the Student & Teacher Edition? See here for information on the different Offices editions. It's £80.99 on Amazon.co.uk.

Prudent

Sorry, I have just realised I have posted another thread on this subject. I am still a bit unsure if there are any disadvantages to open office? I can open any files from open office on word if I need to? I am a teacher and sometimes work at home, so may for example need to start a report at home on finish on school pc.

Prudent

Quincy wrote:

Click the link I supplied earlier and read the info.


This is a link >>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/

Works is Ok'ish but I personally dont like it.

Why don't you like it?