Dear James:
Thanks a lot for your help and i very much appreciate it. Us old guys we
don't have the expertise of today's 10 year olds. They are around computers
at a very early age and that is a huge advantage, but i'm interested
learning dispite my age and a litle help goes a long way! I had a stint in
Rogers Engineering my self a long time ago in 1990. I got very sick and the
company refused to recognise it, thus i resigned and a year later, after a
lot of tests i was put on permanent disability by Sunybrook hospital and
thus that was my status untill last year when i went on regular pension.
I have used a much earlyer version of the same program when it was not
as devlopped as today, but i had my computer rebuilt now the third time
after crashes
due to external bugs despite protection. Now my computer is bristling with
protection but even that is not perfect. I trush a lot of my email un read
if i don't recognise the sender. After rebuilds it invariably vinda up with
the Microsoft software and sometimes i just forget things i had on it and
addresses where to get things and it is always a major effort to re
establish all my shareware programs mostly the ones i actualy purchase. Now
i have two hard drives and periodicaly back up the complete Program Files to
the second drive. Ofcourse there probably versions of programs be lost,
since you can't plan on crushes but it will be much easyer than in past
versions of my computer.
I will install your program on my frieds computer and i will suggest to
him to install the " Thunderbird" program in his and on my computer as well.
I used to like the old version and i had indeed less problems than i have
now.
Thanls again for ewrything and your help is invaluable. Us
without an I.T. department often lost without costly outside help.
Thanks again for your kind cooperation and time.
Yours: A. Stephan Lanczi.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Knott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; "A. Stephan Lanczi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [users] [moderated]
A. Stephan Lanczi wrote:
Dear James:
I just received your reply to some of my questions. Just before i shut
down my system for dinner, I have found the location for the icons and
produced them from the program listing. It was not as easy as from the
start menu, but it's done now. I have noticed that you have them under
the start menu when i was looking for the reason why there is still no
spell check for Outlook Express. I quess the program just not linking up
with outlook express like Microsoft Word or Corel Write does.
I do not believe OpenOffice provides a spell check for Outlook.
Can i write emails through Open Office Write and send them as emails
through Outlook Express? Or you have your own equivalent in your program?
Yes, OpenOffice can use almost any email program. On Windows, it will use
whatever is the default email application.
My next question is, do you have a program equivalent to Microsoft
Power Point as part of of your suite of programs. My friend is getting a
lot of pictures as attachments to emails and can not open them without
Power Point. If you have, than i will download your program on his
computer too and install it. This was a question in my email to you but i
did not get a reply to the question. Than he could also use your writer
to send emails, but he must have a spell checker too, because he don't
like sending emails with errors. He does have Microsoft Word, while i
don't.
The presestation application in OpenOffice, comparable to PowerPoint is
called "Impress". I believe there are 3rd party spell checkers for
Outlook, but I don't have any information on them, as I do not use
Outlook. In fact, I recommend against using Outlook at all as there are a
lot of problems with it. A popular email program is called "Thunderbird",
which is a free download from www.mozilla.com and includes it's own spell
checker, though I believe it can share the dictionary with OpenOffice.
OpenOffice works well with Thunderbird. Incidentally, what your friend is
experiencing is called "lock in", where Microsoft ties it's applications
to each other, in a manner intended to prevent you from using other
software. The sooner you break that, the better.
--
Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
