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Free Word Processor
« on: November 28, 2005, 03:32:22 AM »
So, Ari's using Microsoft Works, which is absolutely abominable, and I just discovered it doesn't autosave documents.  This is very bad for Ari; even Eudora and GMail autosave stuff - so why put up with a word processor that doesn't (especially because she's not in the habit of regularly saving, herself)?

At any rate, can anyone recommend a good freeware Word Processing program for Ari to use?
« Last Edit: November 28, 2005, 03:33:41 AM by JadeKnight »
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Re: Free Word Processor
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2005, 06:07:13 AM »
Surprised you don't know about http://www.openoffice.org/

Don't use it myself, I'm a Word person, but I've heard lots of good things about it.  It doesn't do everything that Word does, but it's a lot better then Works (well just about anything is better then Works).
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Re: Free Word Processor
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2005, 07:38:29 AM »
Word has a autosave every x minutes feature.
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Re: Free Word Processor
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2005, 08:37:39 AM »
Word also has a crash recovery feature that it will save a temp file in the word directory if the program or PC starts to die.
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Re: Free Word Processor
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2005, 11:47:53 AM »
Word.

Sorry, couldn't help myself
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Re: Free Word Processor
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2005, 11:56:18 AM »
and I doubt we can help you either
though Dr. SÉ might be able to

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Re: Free Word Processor
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2005, 09:34:34 PM »
I might be able to, depending on how much physical and/or psychological pain I am allowed to inflict.  8)
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Re: Free Word Processor
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2005, 04:36:20 AM »
I got a student discount price at a store in California. All I had to do was show them my college ID. If Ari is going to break down and get Word, she should do it while she is still a student and can get a discount.
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