Hello, I'm not used to using mailing lists and I thought that I already sent this one already, but I'll give it another go.
I had a trial version of MS Word 2007 that came with my new computer last September. I started using it and forgot it was just a trial version. Well, the time expired without even a warning ahead of time to let me know of things to come. So now I'm stuck with these Word documents that I can't use. I could pay for thee full version and continue to use it, but I wanted to see if there were any alternatives first. I really didn't want to pay $150. If I could've converted these to an older version of Word or even to WordPad format that would've been fine. I told my dilemma to someone where I work and he told me about this Open Office that I could use. What I really liked about it was that it works just like MS Word 2007 and I could even convert my current Word documents to use with it. It sounded like just what I needed. I downloaded Open Office and then tried to use it to convert my Word documents. It didn't work. It looked like the latest version of Word in the list of document types to convert from was MS Word 2000. So can anyone help me? Is there a version of Open Office that will recognize MS Word 2007, or should I abandon all hope? Thank You, Dale
