Word or document help, or something.

[fabiodriven]

I've been writing a lot lately. To the best of my knowledge, I don't think I have any sort of Microsoft Word or Office or anything like that. All of the writing I'm doing has been done via email, I just send them to myself. Well, the document is getting far too big to be doing that and I need to put this on my computer somehow. If I have to spend money I will but if there's a free way I'd love to know about it. Thanks.

[MRSOUND]

Here ya go Fabio, just like microsoft office except free! Step daughter was using while she was in college. I never knew it existed until we had to get her computer repaired and it was on there.
https://www.openoffice.org/

[rdlsz24]

^^Open Office Writer is good, I think it may even open and save Word docs

Rob

[MRSOUND]

It does. It also has it's own version of an excel spread sheet and power point.

[fabiodriven]

Awesome guys, thanks a lot! I'll give it a shot!

[Billy Golightly]

I used Open Office for years even at work...great resource for free

[kb0nly]

OpenOffice is a great one... I recommend that all the time, Microsoft Office is just way to expensive for the casual user.

Google Docs is another option as well.

[Scootertrash]

Thanks Guys! I learned something today because of you. :beer

[fabiodriven]

Yeah thanks again guys. I'm using this to write my book and prior to this the email method had worked but it was a pain. After writing yesterday I had maxed it out and I almost thought I had lost a couple of hours worth of work. I didn't want to take that risk again. It's far easier using this program and now I can even see how many pages I have.

[El Camexican]

Make sure you save all your hard work on a jumpdrive. Dang computers like to crash at the worst of times. Another low buck trick is to get a yahoo account and email files to yourself as a back-up. I'm sure there are better ways, but I don't know them.

[Dirtcrasher]

Just get a USB stick and save your work to that.

They are cheap on Amazon and EBAY...

[Billy Golightly]

Email yourself a copy of the .odt file from open office every now and then will also work ;)

[kb0nly]

Get a Google Drive account, its free and gives you 15gb of cloud storage that you access just like any other folder on your computer. Just install the google drive application on your computer and it creates a folder that you can drag and drop to, edit the files in it and save back to it, etc. This of course only works while connected to the internet, so it is nice to have a local backup, jump drive, external hard drive, etc. But you can't beat 15gb of cloud storage that you can access from anywhere on any device for free. They have an Android app as well, lets me access my files from any of my devices, also i can login from any computer in the world on their website and get access.

Dropbox is another good free one, but you only get 2gb at the free level. You can get more with referrals and such, but the added space expires yearly.

[czac]

try this site for TONS of free stuff, programs, and software... all tested and approved.

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