[X Newbies] expired MS office trial

[Paul Moortgat]

If you don't want to move $$ to MS see for mariner 
http://www.marinersoftware.com they've write and calc software.

Paul Moortgat

On vrijdag, jan 23, 2004, at 16:07 Europe/Brussels, Bruce Klutchko 
wrote:

> On 1/23/04 9:41 AM, "Gail Brown" <gailb at tiac.net> wrote:
>
>> I am running OSX.2.4 on aG3 iBook which came equipped with a trial
>> version of Microsoft Office. The trial has expired. Now everytime I 
>> try
>> to open a Word .doc, the Word app icon opens, appears in the dock and
>> tells me it has expired and do I want to buy it, which I do not. How
>> can I rid myself , or rather my iBook from this annoying message?
>>
>> TIA
>> Gail
> The system is trying to open the document with the original program 
> that
> created it. IF I recall correctly, OS X 10.2.4 does not open .doc 
> documents
> in TextEdit. Therefore, you need to have a program that will open .doc
> documents.
>
> If you do not have such a program, you could upgrade to Panther 
> (expensive)
> or download the freeware AntiWord Service. This is a free program from 
> DEVON
> Technology    (located in the Needful things category at
> http://www.devon-technologies.com/download.php ) that will allow 
> TextEdit to
> open your Word documents.
>
> Whether you choose the free route or the expensive upgrade to Panther, 
> you
> can make things easier on yourself by doing the following:
>
> 1.  Delete the MS Word application from your Applications folder
> 2.  Do a Get-info on a .doc document, and change the default 
> application for
> opening all of these documents to TextEdit.
> 3.  Then remove the Word icon from your Doc (poof!) and all will be 
> well.
>
> Bruce
>
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