Dave wrote on Dec 20^th, 2008 at 3:29pm:


Or use OpenOffice by changing your file associations as I suggested above as OpenOffice should be bang up to date.

Dave wrote on Dec 20^th, 2008 at 3:29pm:



Have now used WordPad MFC Application, (the only Wordpad available), and it has opened it and I can read all of it but not in the same format, i.e. no page numbers or separation.

I should not have to do this, I have opened just about every thing else by just clicking links and the default opener.

NGMsGhost wrote on Dec 20^th, 2008 at 3:33pm:



I don't want to start changing stuff on the computer just to open one page that is giving me problems and risk messing everything else up"

Re your comment about viruses, I have done a scan earlier today with Spy bot S&D, A-Squares,Superanti spyware, Adaware personnel.

AVG and Windows Defender run continuously.

There where only the normal cookies etc found, and I deleted all of those.

NGMsGhost wrote on Dec 20^th, 2008 at 3:47pm:



Because I don't, and never have liked OpenOffice !

Despite the claims, it is nowhere near as good as Word.

Although it is on  my computer and therefore should be capable of opening the files, but in this case it would not despite being the default !!

jgxenite wrote on Dec 20^th, 2008 at 4:23pm:


No it doesn't. See my posts #20/23/25.

Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm using OpenOffice 2.4/3 (can't remember which it opened in).

derrick wrote on Dec 20^th, 2008 at 4:01pm:


But since when did a product not being as good a quality ever get in the way of you using it if it is much cheaper Derrick?  For instance it doesn't seem to ever stop you using that terrible trial Voip phone service to call me, even though it means you get cut off every five minutes and parts of every other word in the call drop out.  I thought that as long as a thing was free you were prepared to use it no matter how much worse its quality might be than the paying version of the same service.

Also let us not forget you taking the hugely less comfortable overnight coach down to London for the Information Tribunal and so losing a night's sleep in the process purely because it was again much cheaper than getting the high speed 6am train.

Surely you are not now going to tell me that you usually shop at Waitrose or Marks & Spencer for your food because you cannot tolerate the cheap old rubbish they sell down at Asda or Tesco?

I think you must have had an earlier bad experience with OpenOffice (as I did with the original Mozilla web browser before it became Firefox) but if you try it now I think you will be amazed by how little different it is from Microsoft Office and how well made the whole software package now is.

NGMsGhost wrote on Dec 20^th, 2008 at 6:37pm:



My copy of Word cost me nothing!

I use the free voip when, hopefully my calls are not going to last long, if I think they are then I will use one of the Finera brand.

It was my choice to use the coach, yes it was cheaper by a mile, (remember I did not even want to attend!), and the lack of sleep was not an issue!

I tend to use Morrisons as it is just across the road from me, but also use Asda,Lidl and Aldi.

I am happy with Word for what I need it for and have no reason to go onto Office.

What is your problem? you have gone way off topic for this thread, is there some reason you want to have a go, or is it just your time of the month?

Why don't you just