Office 2000 upgrade -- can't find qualifying product

J

Joanne

Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
 
J

Joanne

Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
 
J

Joanne

Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
 
J

Joanne

Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
 
J

Joanne

Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
 
J

Joanne

Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
 
J

Joanne

Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
 
J

Joanne

Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
 
J

Joanne

Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :)
||
|| ||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :)
||
|| ||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :)
||
|| ||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :)
||
|| ||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :)
||
|| ||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :)
||
|| ||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :)
||
|| ||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :)
||
|| ||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Glad you are happy with your downgrade.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Joanne asked:

| Geoff,
|
| You missed a couple of steps: Walk into a room full of volunteers
| (thinking they're employees), ask a question, get a rude answer,
| rephrase the question, providing more information, get another rude
| answer, give up on Microsoft Office, download Open Office from
| openoffice.org. Live happily ever after.
|
| "Geoffw" wrote:
|
|| walk into a room full of volunteers, not get the answer you
|| want, spit dummy, grab bat and ball and go home
||
|| must be a new age boss :)
||
|| ||| Around and around and around we go. Where we stop, nobody
|| knows. Repeating
||| the same stupid non-answer over and over again is not
|| going to answer my
||| question. Tonight I'm checking on other manufacturers'
|| "Office" clones. If
||| I'm going to have to pay again, I'm certainly NOT going to
|| give the money to
||| Microsoft. I paid for Office and Works, and I'll be
|| damned if I'm going to
||| pay the non-supportive giant again. I'd rather give the
|| money to someone who
||| supports their products. I know it's hardly a ripple in
|| Microsoft's budget,
||| and I have no illusions that my comments here will even
|| get to someone who
||| works for Microsoft.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
||||
||||| Apparently the manufacturer did me a favor and gave me
|| a newer version of Works than I had
||||| before, and now Office won't install.
||||
|||| As per your input above please refer to the post by DL
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
 
G

Geoffw

Joanne said:
Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps:

not really
Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees),

first mistake
ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live
happily ever after.

I didn't see any rude answers, perhap short and to the
point, started to get a bit testy after the advice (from a
volunteer) that $35 for support was cheap, your response to
this was bought on by your first mistake.

Even the after the 2nd piece of advice was
2nd mistake "milly milly milly " statement

3rd mistake - after realising you were dealing with
volunteers you still went on the attack, a simple did not
know you were vollies, thanks for your assistance would have
probably got a bit more advice.

Never tried openoffice, perhaps it is good, I hope so.

all the best

Geoff

 
G

Geoffw

Joanne said:
Geoff,

You missed a couple of steps:

not really
Walk into a room full of volunteers (thinking
they're employees),

first mistake
ask a question, get a rude answer, rephrase the question,
providing more information, get another rude answer, give up on Microsoft
Office, download Open Office from openoffice.org. Live
happily ever after.

I didn't see any rude answers, perhap short and to the
point, started to get a bit testy after the advice (from a
volunteer) that $35 for support was cheap, your response to
this was bought on by your first mistake.

Even the after the 2nd piece of advice was
2nd mistake "milly milly milly " statement

3rd mistake - after realising you were dealing with
volunteers you still went on the attack, a simple did not
know you were vollies, thanks for your assistance would have
probably got a bit more advice.

Never tried openoffice, perhaps it is good, I hope so.

all the best

Geoff

 

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