"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
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> In news:1qbk24p5l60g2u4snvtm5uijkbguhls76v@4ax.com,
> Ogden Johnson III typed on Tue, 13 May 2008 20:30:34 -0400:
>> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>>
>>> Ogden Johnson III typed:
>>
>>>> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>>
>>>>> So I saw Office 2000 as the fixed version of Office 97. I later
>>>>> checked out Office XP and Office 2003 and I had seen no reason for
>>>>> me to go that route. Although it appears that many doesn't feel
>>>>> this way as newer versions of Office are still selling. Even so, I
>>>>> just checked out eBay and Office 2000 is still selling and the
>>>>> cheapest I saw the Pro version going for is 90 bucks.
>>
>>>> Office XP had a few neat things that I needed/have used in one of
>>>> its components or another that I use (Word, Excel, Access) that
>>>> drove me to u/g from 2000. None since have added or improved
>>>> anything I need/use. [It should be needless for me to say that I
>>>> have no intention, at my age, of jumping off the Office 2007
>>>> cliff.]
>>
>>> Interesting... I like to know what some of these were. As I might
>>> upgrade. :-D
>>
>> Concurrent with lack of interest in jumping off cliffs as one
>> ages is memory that isn't as good as it once was. Complicating
>> that is that when I bought Office XP, it was partly because we
>> used it at the office I was working at, and I couldn't do things
>> at home in Office 2K that I could at work, primarily in Access,
>> but I remember [the fact of them, not the detail] some arcane
>> things I could do at work but not at home, or kludged at home.
>> Going on six years after the fact (concurrent with going on 65
>> six years after the fact) damfino WITH they were. Heck, I
>> haven't touched Access in [cogitate, cogitate, cogitate] a
>> couple, three years, and am not doing anything in Word or Excel
>> that I couldn't be doing in '97 or 2K. Life tends to be both
>> simpler and less stressful in semi-retirement.
>
> Fair enough Ogden. I just needed last night to sort a list based on the
> first character of each line, for example. I thought Word 2000 does this
> and I think it does. But I couldn't get it to work correctly. I finally
> got the results I wanted by firing up my old WordStar for DOS and two
> seconds the job was done. Surprisingly 20 years later it still has some
> use left. LOL
>
> --
> Bill
In news:482ae37e$0$25018$607ed4bc@cv.net,
Tony Harding typed on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:05:01 -0400:
> Bob Levine wrote:
>> K2NNJ wrote:
>>> How is this related to Dell?
>>
>> Quite a bit more related to Dell than fake designer watches, don't
>> you think?
>
> Surely you aren't defending them, Bob?
What are you insinuating Tony? That Dell owners are *not* allowed to
discuss office suites on their Dell computers here? And if so, what else
is also off topic here? For example OS, drivers, WiFi, Internet, and
other problems as well? Last time I checked, this newsgroup isn't
limited to just Dell hardware alone.
> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
> news:482ae4f5$0$30635$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere .com...
>> Fair enough Ogden. I just needed last night to sort a list based on
>> the first character of each line, for example. I thought Word 2000
>> does this and I think it does. But I couldn't get it to work
>> correctly. I finally got the results I wanted by firing up my old
>> WordStar for DOS and two seconds the job was done. Surprisingly 20
>> years later it still has some use left. LOL
In news:dZ-dndQW4LSPerfVnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@earthlink.com,
Christopher Muto typed on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:20:16 -0400:
> you can do it in word 2000 without the data being in a table...
> http://tinyurl.com/5m33cr
> also, since you are useing office 2000, if you happen to be useing
> outlook 2000 (or those using xp and 2003 for that matter) you may
> appreciate this tip on how to add currrent holidays through 2012 to
> your calendar. simple method:
> http://www.poremsky.com/howto/missinghol.htm
> highly detailed alternative:
> http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/holidays.htm
Thanks Christopher! Yes that is the way I tried it and it seemed to be
sorting on another character (instead of the first one on each line).
Instead of figuring out why this was happening, I knew WordStar for DOS
can do this for the first character or any other column you want too (no
need for separators or even spaces). The only bad news about using
WordStar is the text must be in 7-bit. Meaning only ASCII 0 through 127
can be used (in WS non-document mode). Which isn't a problem with most
plain text anyway. ;-)
It is a little OT but I do have a Dell laptop and Dell desktop.
I have been using Excel since Multiplan days (pre-excel microsoft
spreadsheet) so I am very comfortable with it. I use to get a free copy and
license through my employer but I'm now retired so I'm on my own for
upgrades.
Thanks to all who replied to my original post.
Bob
"K2NNJ" <k2nnj@nospam.optonline.net> wrote in message
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> How is this related to Dell?
>
> "S.Lewis" <Gossamer@interesting.com> wrote in message
> news:A26Wj.2373$Kk3.2231@bignews9.bellsouth.net...
>>
>> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
>> news:4828e5bd$0$11116$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere .com...
>>> In news:ct4Wj.18012$Au2.14014@trnddc07,
>>> Bill Ghrist typed on Mon, 12 May 2008 23:33:28 GMT:
>>>
>>> In news:1q3Wj.133360$Er2.98244@bignews6.bellsouth.net ,
>>> S.Lewis typed on Mon, 12 May 2008 17:22:26 -0500:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> Also, the OP might consider downloading and trying the (free) Sun
>>>>> OpenOffice suite.
>>>
>>>> ... OpenOffice is even less expensive (free).
>>>
>>> You get what you pay for. :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bill
>>
>>
>> Dear Bill.........and Bill.........
>>
>> You're both right. The intent of my original mangled response was to
>> agree wtiht Bill (Ghrist's) response that MS Office Home and Student
>> would likely be the best (and least expensive) MS Office solution per the
>> OP's post. I was only trying to provide another option (as unattractive
>> as it may have been in providing Outlook).
>>
>> We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.......
>>
>> Stew
>>
>>
>>
"Robert243" <robert243@iname.com> wrote in message
news:bWeXj.47$4N5.4@newsfe19.lga...
> It is a little OT but I do have a Dell laptop and Dell desktop.
> I have been using Excel since Multiplan days (pre-excel microsoft
> spreadsheet) so I am very comfortable with it. I use to get a free copy
> and license through my employer but I'm now retired so I'm on my own for
> upgrades.
> Thanks to all who replied to my original post.
>
> Bob
>
Completely on-topic. Glad you've found a solution or answer.
On Thu, 15 May 2008 15:59:55 -0500, "Robert243" <robert243@iname.com>
wrote:
>It is a little OT but I do have a Dell laptop and Dell desktop.
>I have been using Excel since Multiplan days (pre-excel microsoft
>spreadsheet) so I am very comfortable with it. I use to get a free copy and
>license through my employer but I'm now retired so I'm on my own for
>upgrades.
>Thanks to all who replied to my original post.
>
>Bob
I've also been using Excel since Multiplan. I am going to start using
the spreadsheet in Open Office. I hope it has good macro / scripting
support.
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