On 2/23/04 7:20 AM, VRic wrote: >My advice to James' daughter would be to of course use a mac, but mostly >to try many apps that can output the file formats she needs (Nisus >Writer?) and choose the ones that she likes, then spend the money on >Virtual PC instead of Office to open *other's* work with the free viewers >and use any other program that may be required. What she shouldn't do is >to use VPC for web and mail with IE and OE, or else she will break her >virtual PC as often as a real one (unless using VPC's "revert disk" >feature, which doesn't save changes to the disk image). Reinstalling >VPC's image from a backup is much simpler and faster than a real PC >though. >
For everyone who offered suggestions - Thanks! Apparently (after calling up daughter last night) it was merely that she didn't have a floppy drive for her iBook (the Indigo clamshell model). So when she and her hubby get spring break, they'll come by here and picky up my LaCie external USB floppy drive. That and the AppleWorks and MacLink Plus filters (version 12) should allow her to load in, make changes and then save back out in Word format, right? Anyway, she's supposed to be sending me a file of the kind she's talking about and I'll test with it. She didn't *really* want to change, just didn't know what she needed to get the job done. Again, thanks for the help and information, people! Jim Rohde Macintosh: about 50 known viruses. Windows: way over 70,000 known viruses Your call... ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
