Thanks for the suggestion of trying libreoffice.org

 I will get my wife in here and help me go through this site when she is available when she gets back this afternoon.

  I will let you know if this is similar to Word and Rapid Resizer...

Thanks, Jess! Several of my teaching colleagues use the entire suite. One nice thin, if you need it, is that it can read and save work as Microsoft documents. 

Following.

 

Thanks Lew and Patch. My wife's place of work (actually corporate wide) recently converted from Microsoft Office Suites to LibreSuites. Aside from the biggest challenge of poor communication from corporate of the change, my wife said its working fine particularly the access of old Word & Excel documents. Not meaning to sound nasty, but if my wife is able to make the conversion and transition with little issues it must be a pretty seamless interface.

 

I've been considering downloading LibreSuite to my new to me laptop instead of buying a NOS of MS Office Suites v2016. I own v2013 on my old desktop which does everything and more that I need anymore which is primarily Word and Excel accessing old files and creation of some new today.

 

It would be nice to access old files on my laptop via portable hard drive or flash drives. If that works well, I have a new to me desktop/tower I will probably install on as well. 

24 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

I own v2013 on my old desktop which does everything and more that I need anymore

Me too. 

I'm using MS Works 9 on W11. 

24 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

I'm using MS Works 9 on W11. 

I have a copy of MS Office 95 

Just now, lew said:

I have a copy of MS Office 95 

 

I'll raise you a copy of MS Office on IIRC 33 3.5" Floppy Disks made for Windows 3.1/Windows 3.11. 

14 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

I'll raise you a copy of MS Office on IIRC 33 3.5" Floppy Disks made for Windows 3.1/Windows 3.11. 

Too rich for my blood, I'll fold!

53 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

I'll raise you a copy of MS Office on IIRC 33 3.5" Floppy Disks made for Windows 3.1/Windows 3.11. 

Trumps my copy of XP. My first PC access was a shared unit in my work cubicle. It had an enormous 40mb hard-drive and dual 5-1/4" floppy drives.. I remember getting my first new desktop at work. It had WIN 3.1 on it.  Also had dual 3.5" disc drives. A bonus was this really cool little cup holder that popped out when you pushed a button.

Edited April 2, 20242 yr by Grandpadave52

46 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Trumps my copy of XP. My first PC access was a shared unit in my work cubicle. It had an enormous 40mb hard-drive and dual 5-1/4" floppy drives.. I remember getting my first new desktop at work. It had WIN 3.1 on it.  Also had dual 3.5" disc drives. A bonus was this really cool little cup holder that popped out when you pushed a button.

 

The good old days  

3 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

The good old days  

Till it came time to install software drivers...

20 minutes ago, lew said:

Till it came time to install software drivers...

That was when the IT department took over. They used to tell me there was nothing they couldn't fix that I screwed up. I was so close to winning that challenge on numerous occasions. 

Edited April 2, 20242 yr by Grandpadave52

12 minutes ago, lew said:

Till it came time to install software drivers...

 

Or download the latest greatest update over a phone modem and hope nobody tries calling. 

29 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

Or download the latest greatest update over a phone modem and hope nobody tries calling. 

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