Hello, Ray.
You've definitely asked the right things in the right forum.
1. This product is totally free. Free of money cost and free of licensing
restrictions. If you want to distribute it to friends, there are things you
should do, but the requirements are quite reasonable and easy to understand.
You can load it onto as many computers as you like.
2. It does work on Vista, but the latest Microsoft file formats are not yet
supported. (There is a release in development that does support the newer
formats, but those file formats are really undocumented and well-obfuscated; I
won't hold my breath.) The newer M$ software _can_ save in the older formats so
that compatibility is maintained, but it does require a conscious action to
accomplish this. As long as your daughter saves in the older formats, she 9sh
dyou) should have no problems viewing and editing the files. (For what it's
worth, this is how Microsoft keeps people in their camp - update the software
with non-backward-compatible file formats and all your friends have to "upgrade"
to be able to read the new file formats. Instant customers!)
3. The download is rather large, but size is not excessive.
4. My life-partner, not very good with computers, does a fine job with it. I
think the answer is it's not the same as M$ products, but it is eminently usable
by non-geeks.
5. I have used Java 5 for forever and I don't think there is any reason to
change. For the most common OOo apps (Writer, Calc, Draw) Java isn't even used.
6. The components are really all integrated - download the whole thing, I would
say. The aspect of the user interface is what changes between the different
operations. In other words, OOo Calc differs from OOo Writer less than M$ Word
differs from M$ Excel, though the user's view differs for both.
Donald.
DEBRAY wrote:
Hi, My name is Ray and our daughter has been having problems opening .doc files
from her school computer on our home computer
we have windows vista home premium with wordpad and sarahs school has windows
xp with ms word..
I would like to know
1.. is your product free?
2.. does it work on vista, will it open, view, edit xp ms word .doc files on
vista?
3.. what size is it?
4.. can a person not very good with computers work with it as I don't know
much about them {I still look for the any key ha ha ha}
5.. do I need to upgrade from java 6?
6.. is it hard to use and can you only select components you wish to use or do
you have to have many different components with it..
SORRY!! if I have asked the wrong things but forums confuse me as people talk
in a language I do not understand!? please can you send me an email with the
answers to my questions in easy to understand words?
thankyou for taking the time to help me and please email me at [EMAIL
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Ray Whatman
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