Russell Butler wrote: > Robyn wrote: > >> I thought this was supposed to work without or instead of office >> works. I refuse to pay such a large sum (on war widow's pension) for >> a programme that really bugs me ... it takes over everything! >> >> I look forward to hearing from you regards, Robyn Jenkins >> > > Hello Robyn > > You are quite right to refuse to pay, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is available > *free* from download.openoffice.org If someone has wanted to charge you > for it, then you may be being "ripped off." There are people who claim > to offer extra services for OOo and charge for those, but you certainly > don't _have_ to get it from them. > > OpenOffice.org can work as a replacement for Microsoft Office and has > good (but not perfect) interoperability with MS Office. It will not open > or save native MS Works documents, however. > > Have a look around on http://www.openoffice.org/ where you will find > lots of good information, and come back to the list if you have any > further questions. > > Russell > > > > To Russell and Users: Have you tried Oxygen Office, the enhanced version by KAMI? If I am not mistaken, and I may be, it may be able to open Microsoft Works, I do not know though!
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