[volt-nuts] do you like Labview in your labs?

[Chuck Harris]

Openoffice.org is free, and will open all of the older versions
of word files.

-Chuck Harris

Charles P. Steinmetz wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> 10 year old Office stuff still works fine and has far more features
>> than I'll ever need.
>
> True enough, I much prefer older versions of the Office apps. That was
> true even before the hateful "ribbon" interface. BUT. The current
> versions of the Office apps won't open old files anymore, so if you send
> what you create to someone with the current version, you're SOL. I have
> thousands of old Word files that I can't open, except in a text editor.
> I have an old version of Word, but MS doesn't seem to allow one to have
> both versions installed.
>
> (If someone knows of a good solution to this, I'm all ears. And no, the
> Open Office word mangler won't open them, either.)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
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