From: Richard524 on
Ihad an office trial, which has now expired. During the trial period Iwrote
numerous important letters which I need to retrieve.Am I still able to do
this? (I cannot afford to purchase the full version at the moment)
From: Tom Willett on
You can print them, but that's all.
"Richard524" <Richard524(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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: Ihad an office trial, which has now expired. During the trial period
Iwrote
: numerous important letters which I need to retrieve.Am I still able to do
: this? (I cannot afford to purchase the full version at the moment)


From: "db" databaseben at hotmail dot on
if I'm not mistaken
there is freeware
called "open office"

which has to ability
to open .doc files.

don't remember for
sure, but worth a try.

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"Richard524" <Richard524(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2E600171-35CD-4E68-93D2-FC9AAABE5D74(a)microsoft.com...
> Ihad an office trial, which has now expired. During the trial period Iwrote
> numerous important letters which I need to retrieve.Am I still able to do
> this? (I cannot afford to purchase the full version at the moment)

From: LVTravel on


"Richard524" <Richard524(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2E600171-35CD-4E68-93D2-FC9AAABE5D74(a)microsoft.com...
> Ihad an office trial, which has now expired. During the trial period
> Iwrote
> numerous important letters which I need to retrieve.Am I still able to do
> this? (I cannot afford to purchase the full version at the moment)

www.openoffice.org and download the latest version. It's free and will
open, edit, write and print "most" Office 97 - 2007 version files (Word,
Excel, PowerPoint.) It can also save in that format but by default it saves
in a proprietary format. The default savesAs type can be changed easily in
the program. It does not have all the features of Office 2007 and it also
does not have the ribbon bar. It is a close replacement for Office 2003.