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MS Works 4.5
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MS Works 4.5
Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 9:18 am
Posted by Christy
(2 messages posted)
I need a little help please :) I installed Microsoft Works 4.5 on a comp with Windows
98, and when I open a spreadsheet the letters H & F appear at the top and I can't
get rid of it. I installed it from the same disk to a comp with Windows XP and it
worked fine. I took a snap shot of the spreadsheet if anyone cares to take a look
at it. Does anyone know why it does this? I'm personally baffled... Thanks in advance
for any help.
Snapshot
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re: MS Works 4.5
Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 10:38 am
Posted by bob wells
(1636 messages posted)
Christy,
Try posting your problem here;
http://computing.net/office/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
You'll have to register to Post, but I think you'll find it worthwhile.
And I thought I was the only one who still uses W4.5! :)
BW
On Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 9:18 am, Christy wrote:
>I need a little help please :) I installed Microsoft Works 4.5 on a comp with Windows
>98, and when I open a spreadsheet the letters H & F appear at the top and I can't
>get rid of it. I installed it from the same disk to a comp with Windows XP and it
>worked fine. I took a snap shot of the spreadsheet if anyone cares to take a look
>at it. Does anyone know why it does this? I'm personally baffled... Thanks in advance
>for any help.
>Snapshot
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re: MS Works 4.5
Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 11:19 am
Posted by Christy
(2 messages posted)
Thanks :)
On Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 10:38 am, bob wells wrote:
>Christy,
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>Try posting your problem here;
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>http://computing.net/office/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
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>You'll have to register to Post, but I think you'll find it worthwhile.
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>And I thought I was the only one who still uses W4.5! :)
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>BW
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re: MS Works 4.5
Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 11:47 am
Posted by bob wells
(1636 messages posted)
Welcome :-)
On Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 11:19 am, Christy wrote:
>Thanks :)
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(Obscure) proprietary data formats--yuck (was: MS Works 4.5)
Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|And I thought I was the only one who still uses W4.5! :)
| bob wells
I have riffed before on how OpenOffice.org (gratis and libre[1]) is legendary
for being able to open "broken" M$Office documents.[2]
Now I want to rail against proprietary data formats
and how vendors leverage them for USER LOCK-IN.
Imagine that there was a document format that ANYONE could open
regardless of what software s/he likes to use.
Well, you don't have to imagine it. It exists.
All that is left is for your vendor[3] to support it.
http://www.google.com/search?q=OpenDocument.Format+proprietary.software+(...)
(As stated, OOo is FREE--and it supports
ODF.)
[1] cache
of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
[2] It's not *quite* as
easy for M$Works documents. 8-(
cache
of http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/misc/Troubleshooting_guide.html
++workaround++to-get.*.wps-files-into-OpenOffice.org
[3] Rather than waiting for M$ to try to leverage
cache
of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
yet ANOTHER lock-in format,
http://www.google.com/search?q=slashdot.org+OOXML.is.not.open+OR+OOXML-is-closed
OpenOffice.org has provided an OpenDocument Format plug-in for M$Office.
Here is an explanation of why this is so cool:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/07/1236254#19779739
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