re: opening documents created with words97 with words2000
Monday, June 25, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Reuven Ben-Daniel
(83 messages posted)
Thank you dhm, but I will see if there is any other solution as I am very short on
hd space
On Monday, June 25, 2007 at 10:47 pm, dhm wrote:
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>This is going to sound silly but there is a nice 93MB download that can solve that.
> It's Open Office, an open source (=freeware) competitor for Microsoft Office:
>
>Its editor, Writer, can open documents for any version of Word and convert them
into
>another version. It has its own format, .ODT, which Microsoft says it will add
to
>future versions of Word.
>
>When WinNT 3.0 came out, it wouldn't run Novell networking software and Novell took
>a tumble in sales it never got out of while Microsoft introduced its own networking
>product. Bill Gates swore it was all an accident. Sun Microsystems is behind Open
>Office, largely out of spite towards Microsoft.
>
>Anyway, such a long download is unlikely to happen without an interruption so on
>the link cited above there are links to a number of download managers so you can
>resume the link. Here's an article comparing such managers:
>
>If you do get it, here's a hint to make OO it run faster. Defrag your disk before
>you run the installation program. OO has a lot of little files to access when it
>starts and if they're scattered in different places on the disk it can take a minute
>to start.
>
>Another hint. OO asks you for a location for a folder of files. Pick any llocation.
> That folder is a temp folder and should be deleted right after installation. OO
>doesn't tell you that and you would probably hold onto that folder of useless temp
>files for a long time until you figured that out.
>
>OO is richly featured but as is traditional for open source software the documentation
>is rottenly sparse. It's not hard to use but the learning process includes a lot
>of cursing.
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