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Puter Geeks Help!
« on: Nov 15th, 2004, 1:34pm » |
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I have my headache diary saved in MS Word Spreadsheet. I tried to email it to a doctor as an attachment. He was unable to open it because all he has on his machine is Excel. I do not have Excel on mine.
Is there a way to get this to him- maybe download a trial version of Excel Spreadsheet to my machine and somehow transfer it from MS to Excel? I tried printing it out in hopes of faxing it to him, with no luck. It seems I'm only able to print in sections, which is almost impossible to read or put together.
All suggestions welcome! Thanks....
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Re: Puter Geeks Help!
« Reply #2 on: Nov 15th, 2004, 1:56pm » |
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John,
Have you used openoffice? I'm lost here. What do I need to download in order to do what I need to do? Do I need to download the entire suite, or can I just download spreadsheet? Once I download what I need, how do I give my document in MSWord a excel extension?
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Re: Puter Geeks Help!
« Reply #3 on: Nov 15th, 2004, 1:58pm » |
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Alley..........
Have you tried just saving the word file as a plain text file? Most anyone can view a text file.........
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Re: Puter Geeks Help!
« Reply #4 on: Nov 15th, 2004, 2:12pm » |
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Have your doc open it in Notepad or Wordpad. Every PC has that.
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Re: Puter Geeks Help!
« Reply #5 on: Nov 15th, 2004, 2:17pm » |
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I'd go with Racer,
Open your file in MS Word,
Click :" Save as"
In the "Save as Type" box
Change to "Plain text" (*.txt)
Ckick OK and mail it.
Anyone must be able to read that file.
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on Nov 15th, 2004, 1:56pm, alleyoop wrote:John,
Have you used openoffice? I'm lost here. What do I need to download in order to do what I need to do? Do I need to download the entire suite, or can I just download spreadsheet? Once I download what I need, how do I give my document in MSWord a excel extension? |
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You download the whole thing, it reads and saves all MS file formats. But actually the other suggestions on this thread are pretty good. If it is a word document you can save it as text or rich text (RTF) but RTF files are pretty big.
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Re: Puter Geeks Help!
« Reply #7 on: Nov 15th, 2004, 2:20pm » |
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Has your Doc tried to open it in MS Word?
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Re: Puter Geeks Help!
« Reply #8 on: Nov 15th, 2004, 5:33pm » |
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on Nov 15th, 2004, 1:58pm, Racer1_NC wrote:Alley..........
Have you tried just saving the word file as a plain text file? Most anyone can view a text file.........
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Musta had a brain fart! Worked like a charm. Thanks Bill!
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Re: Puter Geeks Help!
« Reply #9 on: Nov 15th, 2004, 8:48pm » |
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Dude simple solution... make a PDF with your doc.
The doc should be able to open it... Now... How to make a PDF... That is the question???
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Re: Puter Geeks Help!
« Reply #10 on: Nov 16th, 2004, 12:56am » |
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on Nov 15th, 2004, 8:48pm, Pegase wrote:| Now... How to make a PDF... That is the question??? |
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You grab a horked copy of Adobe, and click on Save as PDF.
Piece of cake,
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Re: Puter Geeks Help!
« Reply #11 on: Nov 16th, 2004, 7:30am » |
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on Nov 16th, 2004, 12:56am, Mr. Happy wrote:
You grab a horked copy of Adobe, and click on Save as PDF.
Piece of cake,
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