Free Office Software article discussion

Montmorencymon

I don''t know if people are aware, but it's possible to make (at least small) modifications to PDFs, using an extension to OpenOffice. With the extension installed, you run Draw, and then open the PDF. I've used this successfully for minimal alterations, which was all I needed.

I am pleased to see that there seems to be a similar extension available for LibreOffice. I haven't tried it yet. (I've downloaded, but not yet installed LO), but it's good to know it's there.

See PDF import:-

http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/

patman99

The main difference between LO & OO is that LO has attracted several thousand contributors. They took all the code for OO 3.5 when they left to set up LO, leaving OO to start redeveloping from 3.4 code (well, the 2 remaining employees that is).

Yes, LO has been incorporated under German Law, so it will always remain open source.

Clairabella

My old laptop, which I use for a very small business, died. I did manage to save, onto a pendrive, my income and expenses along with my invoices which were done in MS Office. My new laptop (Windows 8) won't 'read' these so, I need to download a program that will. I'm not very good with computers and am baffled by the previous posts. Can anyone please help me by suggesting on of the free downloads which will work alongside my saved work. Many thanks.

orrery

Clairabella wrote: »

My old laptop, which I use for a very small business, died. I did manage to save, onto a pendrive, my income and expenses along with my invoices which were done in MS Office. My new laptop (Windows 8) won't 'read' these so, I need to download a program that will. I'm not very good with computers and am baffled by the previous posts. Can anyone please help me by suggesting on of the free downloads which will work alongside my saved work. Many thanks.

I'm confused: the Windows 8 bit should have no bearing on the problem - it is MS Office that reads the files. Are you saying that you can't read the pendrive at all i.e. you just can't see the files? Or is it that your new machine doesn't have MS Office?

If the files were written using Word (text documents) or Excel (a spreadsheet) then LibreOffice, which is free, should do exactly the same job as MS Office did - no need whatsoever to buy Office.

What is the files extension after the names of the files? .doc, docx, xls, xlsx?

johnmc

clairabella wrote:

I did manage to save, onto a pendrive, my income and expenses along with my invoices which were done in MS Office. My new laptop (Windows 8) won't 'read' these so, I need to download a program that will.

Windows8 is an operating system. It's what makes your PC work.

To open any file you need software that can read it. For documents written in MS Office try any of the free software previously recommended; LibreOffice, OpenOffice etc.

Clairabella

Sorry for being vague.

The new laptop doesn't have MS office on it, I think my daughter (who is no longer at home) installed it, on my previous laptop, from a disc she had which allowed 5 installations, or something like that. So, the things were written in MS Word/excel and now I need something to read them. Will any free program do this, the Excel I saved says XLS File and the invoices DOC file.


edit:
Oh, I've managed it!! I can now read all my saved info. Thank you so much for your help guys.

vm2pensioner

vixen1500 wrote: »

not a really serious 'power' user.

But I have used money for the last 10years and it suits me fine. I know it works on windows 7 just trying to find out if anyone used it on windows 8 as having some problems with my nine year old computer which runs XP

Have just seen this post. My old Money program works fine on W8.

vixen1500

vm2pensioner wrote: »

Have just seen this post. My old Money program works fine on W8.

Mine is too

Think it was just the salesman trying to sell me microsoft office and windows * upgrade - poss on commission

tronator

Olyum wrote: »

Why is think free advertised on here as being free, yet when I go to download it is asking for a product key??

Thanks

I can't see it advertised here at all. Or are you the one, who advertises it here?

System

Where?......