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Abiword and OpenOffice can open Word documents, and save documents in
Word format, and just may be less fragile than Word itself.
They're GPL (free) and available in binary format.
It'll cost you about an hour or so to install and try both of them,
but it just may save you a lot of time in the long run.
On 1/6/06, Kirk Turner <royj -at- alltel -dot- net> wrote:
>>
> Should I just paste the entire thing to WordPad and start from scratch?
> I tried that once, and Word crashed yet again and couldn't complete the
> paste. I tried deleting the styles, and the manual became
> incomprehensible and even more unstable. Is there a simple solution (I
> wish) to this? If I could just stabilize Word, I could do this . . .
> maybe. All I need is a polished first draft by Monday to show the
> Governor's people. If you were in my shoes, what would you do? My Word
> program is an OEM, and I don't have the disk. And please don't suggest
> that I read the riot act to someone; I don't have the leverage.
>
>
> Any thoughts?
> Kirk
>
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