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(Message started by: alleyoop on Nov 15^th, 2004, 1:34pm)

Title: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by alleyoop on Nov 15^th, 2004, 1:34pm

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....

......................alley [smiley=huh.gif]

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by john_d on Nov 15^th, 2004, 1:37pm

http://www.openoffice.org

gotta love free shit ;;D

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by alleyoop on Nov 15^th, 2004, 1:56pm

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?

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by Racer1_NC on Nov 15^th, 2004, 1:58pm

Alley..........

Have you tried just saving the word file as a plain text file? Most anyone can view a text file.........

Bill

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by TomM on Nov 15^th, 2004, 2:12pm

Have your doc open it in Notepad or Wordpad. Every PC has that.
TomM

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by Ronny on Nov 15^th, 2004, 2:17pm

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.

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by john_d on Nov 15^th, 2004, 2:18pm

on 11/15/04 at 13:56:25, alleyoop wrote:

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.

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by Kirk on Nov 15^th, 2004, 2:20pm

Has your Doc tried to open it in MS Word?

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by alleyoop on Nov 15^th, 2004, 5:33pm

on 11/15/04 at 13:58:52, Racer1_NC wrote:

Alley..........

Have you tried just saving the word file as a plain text file? Most anyone can view a text file.........

Bill

[smiley=ohjez.gif]
Musta had a brain fart! Worked like a charm. Thanks Bill!

.....................alley 8)

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by Pegase on Nov 15^th, 2004, 8:48pm

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???

Phil

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by Mr. Happy on Nov 16^th, 2004, 12:56am

on 11/15/04 at 20:48:49, Pegase wrote:

Now... How to make a PDF... That is the question???

You grab a horked copy of Adobe, and click on Save as PDF.

Piece of cake,
RJ

Title: Re: Puter Geeks Help!
Post by Pegase on Nov 16^th, 2004, 7:30am

on 11/16/04 at 00:56:53, Mr. Happy wrote:

You grab a horked copy of Adobe, and click on Save as PDF.

Piece of cake,
RJ

[smiley=thumbsup.gif] ;)