Re: Why does Apple Charge For Open Office?

2016-02-18 Thread David Paley
Thank-you very much, this helped a lot. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Dave wrote: > Original Message > From: David Paley > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:58:03 -0800 > > > I sent a friend of mine some writing I did a couple days ago, and since > she > >

Re: Why does Apple Charge For Open Office?

2016-02-18 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 08:21, James Plante wrote: > > I think somebody’s got an IOS reader for AOO files, but it’s not free, and > you cannot edit or markup files. Look in the iTunes app store for OOReader. I think it IS free. As you mention, it's a 'read-only' app. — jt

Re: Why does Apple Charge For Open Office?

2016-02-18 Thread David Paley
Thanks very much, I appreciate all the responses I got, and I now have the problem solved. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:12 AM, James Knott wrote: > On 02/18/2016 02:58 AM, David Paley wrote: > > I sent a friend of mine some writing I did a couple days ago, and since > she >

Re: Why does Apple Charge For Open Office?

2016-02-18 Thread James Plante
Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is a free download, and there’s a binary that runs on the Mac. Go to www.openoffice.org, and ONLY to that site, for your download. Click on the “I want to download Apache OpenOffice” link. A screen will present you with the option to choose your operating system,

Re: Why does Apple Charge For Open Office?

2016-02-18 Thread James Knott
On 02/18/2016 02:58 AM, David Paley wrote: > I sent a friend of mine some writing I did a couple days ago, and since she > was having trouble opening it with the .doc extension I sent it to her > with, I sent her another copy in the Open Office extension that I wrote it > on. She downloaded the

Re: Why does Apple Charge For Open Office?

2016-02-18 Thread Dave
Original Message From: David Paley Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:58:03 -0800 > I sent a friend of mine some writing I did a couple days ago, and since she > was having trouble opening it with the .doc extension I sent it to her > with, I sent her another copy in the Open Office

Why does Apple Charge For Open Office?

2016-02-18 Thread David Paley
I sent a friend of mine some writing I did a couple days ago, and since she was having trouble opening it with the .doc extension I sent it to her with, I sent her another copy in the Open Office extension that I wrote it on. She downloaded the Apple Open Office app to read it and got told she