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Brutalis
07-18-2008, 12:31 PM
So my trial of MOW was up and my entered the product key on the CD case. It didn't work. After I called them up they said the key was invalid and that I have to go purchase a copy.

:wtf

So skrooem', anyone know of any related products that are freeware? I like MOW but I am not about to go spend the dough to buy a copy when I was supposed to have one included with my Toshiba.

leemajors
07-18-2008, 12:59 PM
google documents are free and compatible, but web based

ducks
07-18-2008, 01:39 PM
why not use open office?

Brutalis
07-18-2008, 02:30 PM
Never heard of it before ducks.

Brutalis
07-18-2008, 02:31 PM
google documents are free and compatible, but web based

Not a fan of it.

Kori Ellis
07-18-2008, 02:55 PM
Never heard of it before ducks.


http://www.openoffice.org/

Free. Plus you can open/edit etc MS Word, Excel etc files.

Brutalis
07-18-2008, 03:16 PM
*I'll have to DL it early in the morning when my daily download limit is free. Ugh.

I'll edit with comments.

stretch
07-18-2008, 03:32 PM
open office is awesome

Dex
07-18-2008, 04:01 PM
what version of Microsoft Word?

leemajors
07-18-2008, 04:17 PM
you have to be able to talk MS into it. i talk them into free XP keys 2-3 times a year. ask for someone's supervisor and offer to fax in your receipt or something. regardless, it's easy to procure a enterprise copy of office XP on any number of torrent sites.

ducks
07-18-2008, 04:41 PM
http://www.openoffice.org/

Free. Plus you can open/edit etc MS Word, Excel etc files.

thanks kori
I got tied up at work to get back to him or her

Brutalis
07-18-2008, 05:40 PM
what version of Microsoft Word?

2007

ducks
07-18-2008, 06:06 PM
2007 word sucks
it puts a x after .doc
so you have to download the 2007 word viewer
but you can not edit it!

leemajors
07-19-2008, 01:55 AM
2007 word sucks
it puts a x after .doc
so you have to download the 2007 word viewer
but you can not edit it!

the excel broke macros from previous versions on macosx too, that shit was a pain in the ass. i think the latest patch fixed it, but that was lame.

resistanze
07-19-2008, 12:30 PM
Save yourself time and just pirate everything.

robino2001
07-19-2008, 05:29 PM
anyone tried the new microsoft office? i can't get used to it

We have to use excel 07 at work because of our new project and I want to shoot myself about every time I try to use it. I still haven't figured out how to plot anything or make any graphs to my satisfaction as I could in 03. I wish I could have both versions on my pc at work.

I just installed the complete office 07 on my home pc... haven't played around with it too much to like/hate it yet, but we'll still have office 03 on the wife's pc if I need.

balli
07-20-2008, 03:08 PM
Save yourself time and just pirate everything.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding- There's the answer. If MS is going to fuck you, why not fuck them right back and run stolen versions of their software?

Brutalis
07-20-2008, 04:02 PM
Cause I can't. My satellite doesn't agree with torrents. They are always corrupted files.

WildcardManu
07-25-2008, 11:09 AM
Save yourself time and just pirate everything.

I second that. Plus open office is pretty much the same thing and it's free. I rather give a donation to open office than purchase anything from microsoft.

pooh
09-08-2008, 11:26 PM
what sucks is you can't run Office 2000 on Vista. Well you can run everything but outlook, cause it screws up on the address book and such.