Do You Have To Purchase

[emmie]

Microsoft word. i have a new laptop which runs windows 10. If i want to type letters etc do i need to purchase Word. 365 or Microsoft Office
I ask because i have typed a couple of documents, and now Microsoft have disabled it.
i am no techie, but i am not paying 70 quid for 1 year as they are telling me.

[Jackdaw33]

Download Open Office. It's free and every bit as good as MS Office. It has all the same functions. I use it as does Buenchico.

[emmie]

i hope this makes some sense, as i can't find a better explanation of the problem.

[emmie]

do you type in open office to search bar

[emmie]

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 released
this is what came up.

[waterboatman]

That looks rather strange emmie. I've not heard of that before. All that sort of thing should be preloaded as part of the deal.
I think someone is trying to rip you off.

[Jackdaw33]

Use Google and when the page comes up there will be an option to download. It's simple.

[emmie]

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 released

is this it?

[waterboatman]

But jackdaw is right, Open Office is very good.

[emmie]

nothing is ever simple with me..

[Jackdaw33]

https://www.openoffice.org/download/

[emmie]

it seemed to have downloaded, but i don't know where to find it on computer. what do i look for?

[Jackdaw33]

Is it not on your desktop? When you find it right click and pin it to the taskbar.

[emmie]

not on desktop that i can see. sorry i think i am just too slow in learning new things...

[Jackdaw33]

Just type it in the search bar

[emmie]

it installed, and i clicked on everything i was supposed to..

[Jackdaw33]

You'll have to see your techie friend, I can't help further.

[emmie]

i did it after some trial and error. it seems to have loaded, thank you so much jack.

[Jackdaw33]

Pin it to the taskbar then you'll always find it.

[emmie]

done..

[emmie]

its never straightforward with me, but got it installed and looks good.