microsoft works

[Deleted User]

Hi everyone, My friend's pc came with ms works already installed, however, I'm not too familiar with this as I've always used excel. Anyway, I was trying to give her a quick demo and noticed that there isn't a way you can create multiple worksheets within a spreadsheet. Is this right or am I doing something wrong? Any comments would be appreciated.

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No, Works is very poor. If you want something that works like Excel and looks like Excel I'd suggest that your friend downloads Open Office.

[Deleted User]

Thanks Grahawk foir your reply - I thought I may be missing something. You know what it's like trying to explain and then you get stuck!!! I'll suggest downloading open office. Pity as works would have been useful for her as I don't envisage she'll be using it that much.

parcival

Other option is to buy MS Office. Not sure of cost now but a while back I got a copy for £60 which can be installed on up to 3 machines.

bat999

@ lindabea
When you download OpenOffice you don't have to install the whole thing.
Just install the parts that you need - the word processor and the spreadsheet.
:cool:

[Deleted User]

That's about the current cost - quite frankly, I don't think my friend can justify the cost as she won't be using it that much. I just thought that being able to set up multiple worksheets in 1 spreadsheet is a nice feature instead of cluttering her folder with different file names. I am very surprised it's not available in works.

MsRed1

Works is rubbish. Came free with my laptop. Used it to write a document which I emailed to a friend who couldn't open it cos I hadn't saved it as rtf.

OpenOffice is the way to go.

BillScarab

The reason it's not in works is to encourage you to buy Office!

OpenOffice is very good. Alternatively if your friend is a student or has a student or school pupil in the family they can buy Office at a discount from sofwtare4students.

bat999

[quote=[Deleted User];28511909]That's about the current cost - quite frankly, I don't think my friend can justify the cost as she won't be using it that much...[/QUOTE]

OpenOffice is free.:j:j

From here:-http://www.openoffice.org/

[Deleted User]

Thank you everyone for your replies. I've installed openoffice for her, so I will be demonstrating that to her. It's far better than works, and at least it cost her nothing.