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Old 08-18-2010, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by ramonajim View Post
Have her delete all the MS Office crap. Open Office is a legitimate, free, open source replacement sponsored by Oracle (was Sun forever and ever, they just got bought by Oracle).

www.openoffice.org

She'll be able to open, edit, save, etc. etc. etc. any MS Office document (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).
X2 for open office

I used to "have" to work in Excel occasionally for work and sometimes spread sheets wouldn't open with MS products - even though they'd been made in MS on the same machine:- I never had a problem getting MS stuff to work in Open Office.
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