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    whats a good word programme ?

    Given Im now officially on garden leave its essential I have a good word programme on my home PC

    All I seem to have is 'word pad' , which has no spell check !! Essential for me

    Any recommendations for a programme I can down load ? I dont mind paying for it, if it can add the 'ed' and ',' I miss off all the better

    My works was micro soft word 2003 which was find but I assume there are more up to date ones ?

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    Re: whats a good word programme ?

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    Given Im now officially on garden leave its essential I have a good word programme on my home PC

    All I seem to have is 'word pad' , which has no spell check !! Essential for me

    Any recommendations for a programme I can down load ? I dont mind paying for it, if it can add the 'ed' and ',' I miss off all the better

    My works was micro soft word 2003 which was find but I assume there are more up to date ones ?
    Open Office version 3 - it's free, and compatible with Word. You get everything that MS Office gets, and more - e.g. auto-PDF creation.

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    Re: whats a good word programme ?

    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey View Post
    Open Office version 3 - it's free, and compatible with Word. You get everything that MS Office gets, and more - e.g. auto-PDF creation.


    that said... I use Microsoft Office 2003 professional (OEM)

    I have in the past used Open Office but as I need(ed) to be able to easily integrate work/outlook/excel/windows and windows mobile applications in a development environment I switched for the Microsoft path.

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    Re: whats a good word program ? <- note spelling

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf View Post
    I have in the past used Open Office but as I need(ed) to be able to easily integrate work/outlook/excel/windows and windows mobile applications in a development environment I switched for the Microsoft path.

    Fair enough, but normal people have no need to use Microsoft Office. I worked for a major European company as a consultant and had to produce and edit lots of documentation, they used MS Office, I used Open Office. I had no trouble at all.

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    Re: whats a good word program ? <- note spelling

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    ... they used MS Office, I used Open Office. I had no trouble at all.

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    Re: whats a good word program ? <- note spelling

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    Fair enough, but normal people have no need to use Microsoft Office. I worked for a major European company as a consultant and had to produce and edit lots of documentation, they used MS Office, I used Open Office. I had no trouble at all.


    I really think Open Office is great.. as I said I needed to use MS Office for a specific reason.. and anyway.. since when was I normal?

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    Re: whats a good word program ? <- note spelling

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf View Post


    I really think Open Office is great.. as I said I needed to use MS Office for a specific reason.. and anyway.. since when was I normal?
    I used this for a year and itwas great

    I lost it when my PC was infected (see diff thread)

    Will down load it again now

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    Re: whats a good word program ? <- note spelling

    Stew divna panic son I is here.

    Word up son, word up. (Touch clenched fist with your bro, bro).

    My word is my bond.

    I give you my word as an officer and a gentlemen.

    A picture is worth a thousand words.

    I am a God amongst the pc community.

    DTS XXX XXX
    Last edited by dave the scaffolder; 10th-November-2009 at 11:16 PM.

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    Stew a word in your shell like son!!

    I have had a pm , just 2 words, the second one was OFF!!!

    I am lost for words.

    I am here until Thursday, you can use this stuff down the club you know.

    DTS XXX XXX

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    Cool Re: whats a good word program ? <- note spelling

    Quote Originally Posted by dave the scaffolder View Post
    Stew divna panic son I is here.

    Word up son, word up. (Touch clenched fist with your bro, bro).

    My word is my bond.

    I give you my word as an officer and a gentlemen.

    A picture is worth a thousand words.

    I am a God amongst the pc community.

    DTS XXX XXX
    Quote Originally Posted by dave the scaffolder View Post
    Stew a word in your shell like son!!

    I have had a pm , just 2 words, the second one was OFF!!!

    I am lost for words.

    I am here until Thursday, you can use this stuff down the club you know.

    DTS XXX XXX
    Have you been on the cough syrup again Dave

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    Re: whats a good word program ? <- note spelling

    Quote Originally Posted by StokeBloke View Post
    Have you been on the cough syrup again Dave
    Stokie I give you my word that I have given up the drink, the fags and even those nice Morrocon blend ones I used to enjoy.

    I am sure Stewart has a sense of humour, we just need to dig deep.

    DTS XXX XXX

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    Cool Re: wots u gud werd programmee ? <- note spelling

    Quote Originally Posted by dave the scaffolder View Post
    I am sure Stewart has a sense of humour, we just need to dig deep.

    DTS XXX XXX
    I thought he'd had that successfully by-passed last year mate

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    Re: wots u gud werd programmee ? <- note spelling

    I heard Stew had a triple bypass.---Sense of humour, charisma ans personality.

    Stew you know I love you.

    There is a buttocks squeeze awaiting you.

    DTS XXX XXX

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    Re: wots u gud werd programmee ? <- note spelling

    Stew are you there my lover?

    I feel like I am being ignored.

    Hello

    Hello

    hello

    IS this thing on?



    DTS XXX XXX

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    Re: whats a good word programme ?

    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey View Post
    Open Office version 3 - it's free, and compatible with Word. You get everything that MS Office gets, and more - e.g. auto-PDF creation.
    I'd recommend it too though I've noticed slight differences between rendering a document; such as a line that was on page 1 being on page 2 in Word (which isn't a big deal unless you are going to use it for a CV but then you can export to PDF in most cases for that).

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    Quote Originally Posted by killingtime View Post
    I'd recommend it too though I've noticed slight differences between rendering a document; such as a line that was on page 1 being on page 2 in Word (which isn't a big deal unless you are going to use it for a CV but then you can export to PDF in most cases for that).
    Beware of using tables too, the formatting can do slightly strange things sometimes if saved as a .doc file

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    Re: whats a good word programme ?

    You caould always try one of the programs on this page that are spell check plug-ins for word pad http://malektips.com/windows_xp_wordpad_0002.html

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    Re: whats a good word programme ?

    openoffice.org is a free office suite if you can't afford the populat packages..

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