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psyjax:
Hey Panos,
If you have trouble converting Word files just save them as Word 6 files, they should open fine.
I don't know why you are having trouble, I regularly convert Word 2001 files back and fourth in AppleWorks.
Pantso:
quote:Originally posted by psyjax:
Hey Panos,
If you have trouble converting Word files just save them as Word 6 files, they should open fine.
I don't know why you are having trouble, I regularly convert Word 2001 files back and fourth in AppleWorks.
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English doc files work great in AppleWorks but Greek ones unfortunately don't. So I was presented with two options:
A) Either buy M$ word for Mac which was immediately ruled out :D
B) or convert my files to rtf format (unfortunately saving them in Word 6 format doesn't work for the Greek language) and lose my formatted text
There are other solutions like OpenOffice but it's a major download (156 MBs I think) and I'm on dialup so I'll take a raincheck on that. There are also some cool little apps that convert character sets back and forth. Cyclone, which I've tried to use without success, is one of them.
preacher:
How much more could they possibly improve their office suite. Other than the interface and a few small changes and bug fixes, the office suites cant get any better. Its the same with the operating system itself. This is why so many didnt move from Win98 to Win XP. The only reason to upgrade would be so that if someone you know created a office xp document, you probably cant view it in office 97, so you either upgrade, or get left behind. $1300 so you can type seems a bit much. "But it has a spell checker!!!" I have my sister using Star Office on her Windows Me box, and she loves it. She has created a few power point presentations with it, and does her reports on it. Star Office isnt free, but $50, is a lot cheaper than $130 for the student evaluation version of MS Office, or the $1300 for the full version. As long as MS charges this outrageous price, people(including Windows users) will investigate alternatives
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by Panos:
There are other solutions like OpenOffice but it's a major download (156 MBs I think) and I'm on dialup so I'll take a raincheck on that. There are also some cool little apps that convert character sets back and forth. Cyclone, which I've tried to use without success, is one of them.
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try
http://www.interzone.gr/oo.html
and
http://www.mathima.com/cdrom/
which i think will allow you to cheaply buy openoffice.org1.01 via mail order. I cannot read greek, so i am not sure how much it is or anything like that...
Pantso:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
try
http://www.interzone.gr/oo.html
and
http://www.mathima.com/cdrom/
which i think will allow you to cheaply buy openoffice.org1.01 via mail order. I cannot read greek, so i am not sure how much it is or anything like that...
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Calum thanks for the links man! I really had no idea you could buy OpenOffice CDs from Greece so I feel a bit ashamed right now :rolleyes: that I hadn't noticed before.
However the first one interzone.gr doesn't offer the OS X version of OpenOffice, just the windows and Linux ones :( I don't know about the second site mathima.gr (mathima meaning lesson) because it was down for server maintenance but I'll check it out later.
Thanks again Calum
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