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Chris Goddard

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TRIED Star Office for a couiple of months and it is (For me anyway!!) NOT something I like. VERY slow and keeps altering the pages as I type, as in spacing and such!!

 

So any ones out there please? I DO have an XP suite but it keeps on losing the ruddy files adn I have to keep on getting out the discs to reinstallparts!! That and I have "LOST" the original discs!! Well lent them out and cannot remember to whom!!

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OpenOffice is the dogs dangles Chris you won't regret using it

 

 

try this Chris:

 

http://www.openoffice.org/

 

Completely open source & compatible with all the usual platforms & file types.

 

My son, who's an ex PC professional - and absolutely detests all things microsoft, has been using it for years.

 

 

Cheers.......

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Sorry!! It's me and I don't know why?? I AM trying Open Office from SUN Micro?? And that for me is even worse than OFFICE!! It works, but REALLY slow and seems to please itself what it does as regards formatting a page!!

 

SORRY!!

Chris Goddard


It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

If GOD had NOT meant us to go fishing, WHY did he give us arms then??

(If you can't help out someone in need then don't bother my old Dad always said! My grandma put it a LITTLE more, well different! It's like peeing yourself in a black pair of pants she said! It gives you a LOVELY warm feeling but no-one really notices!))

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Sorry!! It's me and I don't know why?? I AM trying Open Office from SUN Micro?? And that for me is even worse than OFFICE!! It works, but REALLY slow and seems to please itself what it does as regards formatting a page!!

 

SORRY!!

If it is really slow, it suggests it's your PC, especially if you keep getting problems with M$ office. As for reformatting all the time, I would suggest it's a settings option, like M$ has, and you just need to switch it off.

 

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Open Office works fine for me. A little bit slower on this machine than MS-Office, but not unacceptably so. I'm running WinXP, 1GB RAM, 2GHz Athlon 64 3000 processor.

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Mine is a 2800 but otherwise similar??

Chris Goddard


It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

If GOD had NOT meant us to go fishing, WHY did he give us arms then??

(If you can't help out someone in need then don't bother my old Dad always said! My grandma put it a LITTLE more, well different! It's like peeing yourself in a black pair of pants she said! It gives you a LOVELY warm feeling but no-one really notices!))

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Almost certainly PC problems Chris. OO is an excellent suite and MS Office should not be acting badly either.

 

Try this on each drive on your PC starting with the system drive

- click on start, run, key in CMD and press OK

- key in chkdsk /r (note the space between chkdsk and /r) then press ENTER

- when it tells you the job cannot be done just now, answer Yes to doing it at next boot then reboot.

- go have a snack or a beer or snuggle with your spouse for a while.

 

Now do the same with each drive you have. If there are no system files on a drive, it will chkdsk immediately but otherwise, just say Yes. You can flag all the remaining drives this time and all will be repaired at next boot.

 

Note that there is a slight chance that the chkdsk routine will destroy some essential files. Rare but I have seen it twice over 9 years and hundreds of machines. If that happens, the drive was messed up badly enough it was beyond hope so nothing lost.

 

However, you should have your essential files backed up before you start.

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Chris, persevere with OO you will get there!

 

The toughest bit is 'de yanking' it - getting the UK English stuff working as default etc as the help pages can be patchy.

Also same with paper and page margins etc - set the defaults before you start tryping.

As for 'mucking about with the pages' - Well I've given up with MSOffice when doing destructions etc with piccys and use OO to write them before saving as word docs for lesser mortals, the PDF export is excellent.

The 'writer' is much more of a 'publisher' type application than a word processor, change the way you structure documents and do them more like newspaper and magazine pages and you will love it.

I use 'frames' (text boxes) almost all the time to allow decent wrapping around pictures etc.

Lots of good websites with tutorials etc on the web as well.

 

As for speed - looks like you need to do some housekeeping, have a look at your processes and CPU usage to get a handle on where your speed's gone, also turn off as many things in your taskbar as you can.

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