Thanks for responding. I know MS Office is not free, it's expensive and I
know I have to buy it if I want it, but I don't have that type of money.

I have a document already saved in Microsoft Word and I pulled it up in
Microsoft Works and I had to make a few changes, but my only concern is that
once I email this document to someone with Microsoft Word it won't look the
same on their end.

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

> Microsoft Office is not free. If you want it, you must buy it
> like the rest of us.
>
> What's wrong with Microsoft Works? For basic documents, Works
> can "save as" to Word- and Excel-compatible files.
>
> The free OpenOffice suite, which you can download from
> www.OpenOffice.org , contains applications that are similar to
> those in Microsoft Office and can "save as" to Office-compatible
> files.
>
>
> Blessed1 wrote:
>
> > I have no version of MS Office on my computer. My computer came w/ PC Works
> > 2005. I need to know what would be the best version of MS Office to purchase
> > and the best way of getting it. I do not have the money right now to purchase
> > it, so what other options do I have.
>
>

There could be some minor cosmetic differences at the receiving
end, but probably nothing major as long as the document doesn't
contain complex formatting. And even if you had Word, it's
likely that a Word document will look a bit different on someone
else's computer than it does on yours (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm and
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matChange.html
for more info on that).

Blessed1 wrote:

> Thanks for responding. I know MS Office is not free, it's expensive and I
> know I have to buy it if I want it, but I don't have that type of money.
>
> I have a document already saved in Microsoft Word and I pulled it up in
> Microsoft Works and I had to make a few changes, but my only concern is that
> once I email this document to someone with Microsoft Word it won't look the
> same on their end.
>

Thanks for the info.

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

> There could be some minor cosmetic differences at the receiving
> end, but probably nothing major as long as the document doesn't
> contain complex formatting. And even if you had Word, it's
> likely that a Word document will look a bit different on someone
> else's computer than it does on yours (see
> http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm and
> http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matChange.html
> for more info on that).
>
> Blessed1 wrote:
>
> > Thanks for responding. I know MS Office is not free, it's expensive and I
> > know I have to buy it if I want it, but I don't have that type of money.
> >
> > I have a document already saved in Microsoft Word and I pulled it up in
> > Microsoft Works and I had to make a few changes, but my only concern is that
> > once I email this document to someone with Microsoft Word it won't look the
> > same on their end.
> >
>
>