OT I Need Computer Help!!!

Maybe someone here can help me out. I have Vista on my computer. I am the new secretary for our tractor club. My computer has Micro Soft Works Word Processor on it amd I used it to type the minutes from the last board meeting. I was able to make paper copy of the minutes OK. One of the board members asked me to e-mail him the minutes before the next meeting, so I clicked the e-mail option and sent them out. He replyed that he couldn't get the attachment to open up. When I recieve e-mail documents from the club president and open them, a screen comes up and says I have a trial version on my computer and it will expire soon, I need to purchase a copy to continue. I click not to purchase at this time and then it opens and I can read the attachment. I tried to scan the minutes to email them, but now my printer (HP Photosmart C4280) says I need to insert a disk that I don't have to continue. I have scanned photos and pages before no problem. Is there any way to send out a copy of the minutes without buying another program? Thanks, Chris

Stop paying for Micro$soft and never look back.

http://www.openoffice.org/

You can use this program yourself and switch others in your club to run this. Compatible with Micro$oft Office and 100% free

You probably have microsoft office 2007 trial version and it will cost you about 120.00 to get the full version. If you send a document to someone who doesn't have office 2007 they will not be able to open it. I just went through the same thing on my computers. Dave

First, don't distribute your minutes in Word format, or any other proprietary format. The best thing to use is PDF, and there are plenty of programs that will create PDF. OpenOffice will create PDF files directly from MSOffice or OpenOffice files. Only use MS Office formats when you're sending files to someone who needs to edit them.

Second, for most folks OpenOffice will handle all your word processing and spreadsheet needs. It can read and write all the popular formats, including MS Office. For an advanced user, OpenOffice comes up a bit short, but it will do 99 percent of what the full-blown MS Office will do, and it's free.

When I recieve e-mail documents from the club president and open them, a screen comes up and says I have a trial version on my computer and it will expire soon, I need to purchase a copy to continue.

Click to expand...

I think what everyone is saying is good stuff...but I'm wondering is it the email program? Like 'Outlook Express' that is the problem?

Copy & paste

I'll throw one out.

For the last five years, I've been doing insurance inspections on real estate properties, which requires filing reports online, including uploading various photos of the properties. On the company software, there's a "Browse" link to click to select a thumbnail photo, then a "Preview" link to click to preview an enlarged copy of the photo, then a dropdown menu to label the photo before it's uploaded. (Front, Rear, Detached Garage, etc). It's always worked perfectly.

Then, a week ago, I installed Internet Explorer 8 to upgrade from IE7. Now all I get is a blank page on the "Preview" function. The rest of it works fine, the photos upload onto the report like they're supposed to, etc. But it's nice to be able to preview a photo before you upload it to make sure you picked the one you want. It is possible to enlarge a photo on the final report before it's submitted, but by then it's a PITA to go back and change one.

I reported it to our company wizards, and they're stumped. The best answer I got was to abandon IE8 and go back to IE7, which I'd have no problem with doing. I really don't see IE8 as an improvement anyway.

Has anyone else ever run into something like this with IE8?

For those with Vista Operating Systems and MS 2007, when you are ready to 'Save', you can 'Save As' to the 2003 version of MS and your recipients will be able to open them just fine. Word 2007 documents have a 'docx' extension on the document name, where a Word 2003 documents have a 'doc' extension. MS also offers a free patch download so 2003 users can open docx files. Hope this helps, but you still have the issue of the trial version you will need to address.

Yes Wm N Tx. that is what I was thinking. Copy the material and paste into your e-mail. We do this all the time with MS Word.

Download and install OpenOffice.

Microsoft Works used to use a proprietary format that wasn't compatible with other software.

You could install a program called CutePDF. It thinks it's a printer; from the "Print" menu, pull down the printer list and select CutePDF, and it'll print the document to a PDF file.

Will your company allow you to dump MightGoSoft and use another browser (Firefox, perhaps)?

For some reason known only to Bill Gates, microsoft Office (word, powerpoint, excel, etc.) does not use the same file format as microsoft Works.

Best option is to buy a home/educational version of Office. You can install it on several computers as long as you don't use it for commercial purposes. A little over $100 at Costco. Uninstall the demo version on your computer before installing the new version.

OpenOffice is a lower cost alternative (i.e, free) but there is a learning curve involved in using it, and it can get a little confusing if you have to switch back & forth to a microsoft program. I have it on this computer, but rarely use it.

You might also check to see if Works has an option to save in Word format. Click on "Save As" and scoll down the list of file formats. I don't have a copy of Works handy to check. There's also a file converter you can download free from microsoft that will let Word read recent versions of Works documents.

Microsquish strikes again.....

Keith

Possibly. It's probably simpler just to go back to IE7.

I should have mentioned the wizards did suggest the photos may be too big, and suggested not sizing photos over 250mb., but most photos I use average around 200. The company software won't accept photos with a resolution of over 480x640, anyway.

Thanks for the replys and e-mails. I was able to copy and paste into an e-mail and send it. Had to figure out how to highlight the entire minutes before I could copy them, but it appears to have worked. I can open the sent e-mail and it is there. Thanks again. Chris

KEB, if you think there's a learning curve with OpenOffice, you probably haven't made the switch to MS Office 2007. The "ribbon" interface used in 2007 is far harder to learn than anything in OpenOffice. It would seem that Microsoft deliberately switched from the traditional menus (which date back to the earliest versions of Mac and Windows) to the ribbon just to make it harder for users to move back and forth between MS Office and OpenOffice.

There are several free programs that allow you to print to PDF and make any document into a PDF file including pictures and web pages. I put a link to one of them. You can "Google" print to PDF and see more.
Print to PDF