MS Office

[Bushwanderer]

On my current trip, my hard disk crashed.:eek:

A coy. in Mt Isa installed a new hard drive and reinstalled XP Pro. However, they didn't reinstall Office Professional 2003. Can anyone advise me how to obtain another copy of this?

TIA,
Peter

[Ricey]

MS Office is a standalone software package. Either have your disc posted from home to you with the registration codes or consider buying the latest version.

[JDNSW]

Or download OpenOffice.

John

[dullbird]

I have heard open office is actually quite good

[WhiteD3]

.........or consider buying the latest version.

and seek psychiatric care while you're at it. :DMS office 2007 is enough to drive even the sanest technophile mad!:eek:

[Blknight.aus]

I have heard open office is actually quite good

quite good...... phumph...

its brilliant.

I use it exclusively now on all my machines it takes a little getting used to as some of the things are in different places but it takes up bugger all space, bugger all system resources (compared to office))

[JDNSW]

I have heard open office is actually quite good

OpenOffice is quite usable, but is not the same as MS Office, so it will do just about everything that MS Office will, but not in quite the same way. It does not have grammar checking, and while it will open any MSOffice file I have tried, and will write Word, Excel etc files, you can sometimes end up with problems swapping files between the two systems, particularly if you use some of the more advanced features like remembering modifications to a document.

On the other hand, the native file format of OpenOffice produces files that are tiny compared to Word, and there is a reasonable chance they will still be supported in ten years time, which could be doubtful with Word. Also does things like write pdf files with a single click.

I have been using it pretty much exclusively now for perhaps five years.

John

[Waxenwane]

On my current trip, my hard disk crashed.:eek:

A coy. in Mt Isa installed a new hard drive and reinstalled XP Pro. However, they didn't reinstall Office Professional 2003. Can anyone advise me how to obtain another copy of this?

TIA,
Peter

I have an OEM pack here you can have for $50 it is Office small business edition 2003 edition and business contact manager update for office outlook.

[Psimpson7]

Open office however doesnt work properly in conjunction with some other software....

[Blknight.aus]

what softwares that? I havent had any problems with it

(No thats not a dig, Im actually curious)

[Psimpson7]

Solidworks is the one that I know of Dave. It uses excel for certain table based functions (Design tables for instance) and the open office equivalent won't work.

Cheers
Pete.

[abaddonxi]

The better bits of Endnote - footnoting software - won't work with OO.

Reasonably specialised, but made the decision easy for me.

Cheers
Simon

[Bushwanderer]

Thanks everyone for your helpful replies.:BigThumb: