On 30 Mar 2005 at 15:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We had Word 95 (or 97?) and lost it when we had to reboot. No > recovery disc was provided when we purchased the computer, and now the > program we had is "obsolete" and no recovery discs are available. > > We were referred to your organization, but since we don't know what we > need, I'm afraid that your home page looked awfully "greek" to us. > > Our OS is Windows 98, so we're looking for a substitute for Microsoft > Word that is compatible with Windows 98. Can you suggest what is > required -- and how we obtain it? We know about how to turn the > computer on - not too much computer savvy in this household. Thank > you. > >
Open Office is an excellent substitute for MS Office and works well on my Win 98 SE. You can download it (free!) from the www.openoffice.org site, but if you don't have broadband or cable it will take a long time. There is, however, a list of suppliers who will sell it to you on CD-ROM. You will probably want the latest stable version (1.1.4) as version 2.0 isn't quite ready for general use yet. If you buy a CD, make sure you get one with at least a 1.1 version, and preferably 1.1.4. Some CDs are sold with an old 1.0 version on them. I am replying to you personally because you are not subscribed to the [email protected] list. Please reply to the list and not to me personally, and do consider subscribing to the list. Tony Pursell An OO.o User --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
