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What laptop brands are best?
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
September 26, 2012 at 3:11 pm
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
September 29, 2012 at 11:17 pm
Ok, so, I got my Asus. Yay! It seems to be much faster than my old Dell. Now I just need to figure out how I can get Microsoft Word from the Dell to the Asus.
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
September 30, 2012 at 7:11 am
(September 29, 2012 at 11:17 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Ok, so, I got my Asus. Yay! It seems to be much faster than my old Dell. Now I just need to figure out how I can get Microsoft Word from the Dell to the Asus.

You can't just copy it. You need to install the software again. Did your Dell come with Office pre-installed? Did you receive the installation disk?
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
September 30, 2012 at 2:37 pm
(September 30, 2012 at 7:11 am)Red Celt Wrote:
(September 29, 2012 at 11:17 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Ok, so, I got my Asus. Yay! It seems to be much faster than my old Dell. Now I just need to figure out how I can get Microsoft Word from the Dell to the Asus.

You can't just copy it. You need to install the software again. Did your Dell come with Office pre-installed? Did you receive the installation disk?

Pre installed, so no disk. I'm going to have to guy a new copy, but since I'm a student, there are other, cheaper options for me. It's still more than I want to spend, though.
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
September 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm
(September 30, 2012 at 2:37 pm)TaraJo Wrote:
(September 30, 2012 at 7:11 am)Red Celt Wrote: You can't just copy it. You need to install the software again. Did your Dell come with Office pre-installed? Did you receive the installation disk?

Pre installed, so no disk. I'm going to have to guy a new copy, but since I'm a student, there are other, cheaper options for me. It's still more than I want to spend, though.

Ah, yeah... Office is dirt cheap for students. I bought mine thru a website called (from memory) softwareforstudents.

Of course, you could always download it if you find a good torrent.
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
September 30, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Or use Open source SW like OpenOffice
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
October 1, 2012 at 6:30 pm (This post was last modified: October 1, 2012 at 6:31 pm by Autumnlicious.)
Seriously, after all the labs I did in University for physics, I've come to the conclusion that anyone obsessed over needing MS Office is a dumbshit.

Though, at one point, I wrote a linear regression test because I didn't want to try someone's OO macro. But I'm weird that way.

The functionality you are most likely to use is built in to both products. And any time you're giving out a document, USE PDF!.
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
October 1, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Get Libre Office. It's free and you can open/save in Microsoft Word format.
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
October 1, 2012 at 6:57 pm
(October 1, 2012 at 6:30 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: The functionality you are most likely to use is built in to both products. And any time you're giving out a document, USE PDF!.

Unfortunately PDF's aren't always an option. Many documents are collaborative efforts. That makes PDF’s unusable unless everyone has got Adobe Acrobat, and I don’t know anyone that’s not in the publishing business that uses that. Plus I've seen problems with formatting and tracking changes between Office and OpenOffice. I haven’t tried any of the other office suites though.
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RE: What laptop brands are best?
October 1, 2012 at 7:00 pm
I have never gone through the trouble of installing Microsoft Office on my computer, but then again all the university computers have it, so if I truly need it, I do my work on those.
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