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    Okay just bought new tower with Micosoft XP Media edition 2002 on.... no EXCEL.

    How do I cheaply get excel onto my tower...?

    Not for me I might add far to technical ! but for Mrs Par!


    Any suggestions please... I tried Download.com but ended up trying to download a version that is only available to persons with a U.S address

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    Re: excel

    Can try open office for a free alternative (totally excel compatible and looks very much the same) OpenOffice.org: Home

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    Re: excel

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    Can try open office for a free alternative (totally excel compatible and looks very much the same) OpenOffice.org: Home
    "Totally" compatible? Not quite. Mostly compatible is probably more like it.

    It's a good package though.

    Did you have a copy of Excel or Microsoft Office with your old PC? In which case, if you have the install disks, you can just reinstall it on your new PC.

    Otherwise, you can buy it. There's ways of getting it cheaper than full price – like the OEM version, or the education version.
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    i use Open Office at work and deal with Word and Excel documents on a daily basis with no problem what so ever. So i would suggest openoffice.org - go get it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    i use Open Office at work and deal with Word and Excel documents on a daily basis with no problem what so ever. So i would suggest openoffice.org - go get it
    Can Mrs Par use Excel at work and openoffice at home on the same documents?


    If she brings it home on a disk??

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    yes - i think at work Im the ONLY one that uses Open Office - so all the documents sent to me are from Microsoft Office.

    Try it and see, is the best idea.

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    Re: excel

    Quote Originally Posted by under par View Post
    disk??
    a what ? can you still buy them

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    yes - i think at work Im the ONLY one that uses Open Office - so all the documents sent to me are from Microsoft Office.

    Try it and see, is the best idea.

    cheers to all for your help .....Openoffice it is then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    a what ? can you still buy them

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    Quote Originally Posted by under par View Post
    Can Mrs Par use Excel at work and openoffice at home on the same documents?
    Yup, generally it will save back to the same format (Excel) but if she creates a document at home make sure she saves it as an Excel document (when you save, or Save As..., you can pick the format).

    I've been using OO.o for a while and I think it is fine. I don't tend to use it for CVs etc as I want to make sure that slight differences in layout don't mean I go onto a third page but saying that OO.o can save to PDF which is ideal.

    Microsoft said that OO.o is ten years behind Microsoft Office which is fine since how many things extra do I want to do compared to what I could do in Office '97.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    "Totally" compatible? Not quite. Mostly compatible is probably more like it.
    Which version? OO.o 2.0 is better but NeoOffice (for the Mac) was based on the 1.1 code. Though an upgrade to 2.0 is/has happened?

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    The newest builds for OOo on the mac based on OOo 2.1 are for internal use only at the moment I think. They're still working on native universal binaries which were meant to be released in February but have been delayed

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    Quote Originally Posted by killingtime View Post
    Which version? OO.o 2.0 is better but NeoOffice (for the Mac) was based on the 1.1 code. Though an upgrade to 2.0 is/has happened?
    I'm not talking about the Mac version (which as far as I understand is a bit behind ) but on features like VBA, embedding, and that kind of stuff.

    Unless I am mistaken and OO.o Calc can really do this stuff?
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