note book computer

[Dobby]

Hi all I got a new note book computer thingymajig wotsit. an acer aspire 10.1 thingy, with 1gb n 160 hd, wotever that is!
and the software on it is a 60day microsoft trial anyone know what software i can run on it for free to do logs of the plot and bees I dont really like microsoft but if thats all there is then i will use it

[zazen999]

Open office; I use it all the time. You can save it in microsoft if anyone only using microsoft needs to read it. And you can export to pdf documents.

[Dobby]

thanks i'll have a look hopefully with this ill be online more we can both be online at the same time

[Bigmallly]

Hi Dobby, what is the software that is on 60 day trial. Does it give you the names of the programmes?

[Dobby]

micosoft office and micosoft works we tryed putting in the noumber on the back for the key but it said no ?? so we dont know what to do
any idears

[zazen999]

OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

By the time you've got to the bottom of it - you'll be up and running with Open Office!

[Madasafish]

I agree with Open Office.

It's free.
It will use all your Word and Excel files.

It looks like Excel and Word.

It's free.

I use it all the time..

It's GGGGGRRRRREAT

[zazen999]

I agree with Open Office.

It's free.
It will use all your Word and Excel files.

It looks like Excel and Word.

It's free.

I use it all the time..

It's GGGGGRRRRREAT

did we mention....

It's FREEEeeeeeeeee

[iscribe]

Hi all, while I agree that OpenOffice could be the way to go it is a little resource intensive and may struggle slightly on a note/net-book (although if it will handle MS office then Open Office will be no problem). I have used both abiword (free open source word processor that handles word documents) and gnumeric (free open source spreadsheet program that can handle Excel files) and had great success with both on lower spec machines. Both are free to install and use and use very little system resources.

Also, if you are simple looking for something to write/plan crops then I have used goggle documents, free to use and accessible from anywhere you have in Internet connection (I have made changes to my plan from my plot using my phone). Here is a link to my google docs plan [Google Docs Plan] (caveat: this is my first year so plan is not guaranteed to succeed )

Just my 2c

iScribe

[iscribe]

damn, just read my last post back, seemed a little preachy, my apologies if it came across like that

iScribe

[Bulbaholic]

Many thanks for your suggestion, iscribe, I have just copied it and created a google docs planner for myself. Looks good!

[braders]

Hi all I got a new note book computer thingymajig wotsit. an acer aspire 10.1 thingy, with 1gb n 160 hd, wotever that is!
and the software on it is a 60day microsoft trial anyone know what software i can run on it for free to do logs of the plot and bees I dont really like microsoft but if thats all there is then i will use it

Hi Dobby
We use it at work and its free...just uninstall your present version and install this one. If you have any problems just pm me. Link below.

Download OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 RC1 - FileHippo.com

[SarzWix]

I had Open Office for a little while, and it's great for most things. It's pants for opening my OU assignments with tutor comments showing though, it won't show them whatever you try (and lots of people have tried!). I ended up having to pay for the student version of MS Office!

Oh, and I'm on a Netbook, and it happily runs either program

[Glutton4...]

Open office; I use it all the time. You can save it in microsoft if anyone only using microsoft needs to read it. And you can export to pdf documents.

I often read the Techie questions threads, figuring that I can usually learn sommat. Well, again you lot have taught me sommat very useful!

After reading this thread I downloaded Open Office, fully expecting to be disappointed, but nope - it's fab. I feel totally at home with it already, and have transferred most of the spreadsheets and old word docs that I use the most, to it already.

Many thanks - I'll be Windoze-free yet!

[zazen999]

I often read the Techie questions threads, figuring that I can usually learn sommat. Well, again you lot have taught me sommat very useful!

After reading this thread I downloaded Open Office, fully expecting to be disappointed, but nope - it's fab. I feel totally at home with it already, and have transferred most of the spreadsheets and old word docs that I use the most, to it already.

Many thanks - I'll be Windoze-free yet!

Glad to hear it.