Office 2003

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When I try to open a document someone emailed to me, MS Office 2003
appears and says I must activate it on a trial basis before using.
Then I suppose I'll have to pay for it. I don't want to use MS
Office. Is there anyway else I can open the doc, say in MS Works, for
instance? Thanks,

brody
 
brody said:
When I try to open a document someone emailed to me, MS Office 2003
appears and says I must activate it on a trial basis before using.
Then I suppose I'll have to pay for it. I don't want to use MS
Office. Is there anyway else I can open the doc, say in MS Works, for
instance? Thanks,

brody
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Try asking in an MS Office newsgroup.
 
brody said:
When I try to open a document someone emailed to me, MS Office 2003
appears and says I must activate it on a trial basis before using.
Then I suppose I'll have to pay for it. I don't want to use MS
Office. Is there anyway else I can open the doc, say in MS Works, for
instance? Thanks,

brody
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You can go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Results.aspx?displaylang=en&nr=50 and
download Word 2003 Viewer. Quoted from site: "View, print and copy Word
documents, even if you don't have Word installed. This download is a
replacement for Word 97 Viewer and all previous Word Viewer versions." It
is #22 on the list.

Cajunswabbie
U.S.N., Retired
 
To deal with your problem, I have just done the following. I opened a saved
email containing a Word attachment. I right-clicked on the attachment icon,
selected "Save as" and saved the file as an attachment on my desktop. On the
desktop I right-clicked on the Word icon that I had placed there, and clicked
 
When I try to open a document someone emailed to me, MS Office 2003
appears and says I must activate it on a trial basis before using.
Then I suppose I'll have to pay for it. I don't want to use MS
Office. Is there anyway else I can open the doc, say in MS Works, for
instance? Thanks,

brody
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OpenOffice (free, open-source) claims to be able to read and write
MS-Office formats but I don't know how that applies to MS Office 2003.
OpenOffice for Windows is about a 90 meg download so maybe not worth the
trouble unless you have broadband.

The URL is http://www.openoffice.org
 
No, you would not have to pay for Office whether you use the trial or not.
But the Trial will cease to work when the trial period ends, 120 days IIRC.

Download the free Word Viewer as suggested by Cajunswabbie.
With the viewer, you can open but not change.

Then later you can decide if you just want to use viewer or one of the other
option for office suites or programs.
 
An office 2003 word doc can be opened with other versions of office Word.
It's not restricted to 2003.
 
brody said:
When I try to open a document someone emailed to me, MS Office 2003
appears and says I must activate it on a trial basis before using.
Then I suppose I'll have to pay for it. I don't want to use MS
Office. Is there anyway else I can open the doc, say in MS Works, for
instance? Thanks,
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What program can open a document depends of the kind of document it is (the
extension--the last three characters after the dot). For example, an xls
file is a Microsoft Excel doument. To read it, you either need a copy of
Excel installed, or some other compatible program that can read xls files
(Quattro Pro, OpenOffice, StarOffice, etc.)

Since you haven't told us what kind of file it is, nobody can answer your
question.
 
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