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    Mycroft Holmes
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    So I bought a new ultrabook, got the Asus as I liked the config, and wanted to get Outlook on it. Went to the Office 2010 web site and get driven nuts by the smarmy American accent (I know MS are an American company but some of us find the accent supremely irritating) trying to tell me about the benefits of Office. What a crock of shit. I only want Outlook, word and excel are useful I suppose and I'm reluctant to use a web based system as it offend my foil hat. I suppose if I use gmail I can integrate the android phone :sigh: So what is everyone using for their Email and word/excel equivalents.

    Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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      So I bought a new ultrabook, got the Asus as I liked the config, and wanted to get Outlook on it. Went to the Office 2010 web site and get driven nuts by the smarmy American accent (I know MS are an American company but some of us find the accent supremely irritating) trying to tell me about the benefits of Office. What a crock of shit. I only want Outlook, word and excel are useful I suppose and I'm reluctant to use a web based system as it offend my foil hat. I suppose if I use gmail I can integrate the android phone :sigh: So what is everyone using for their Email and word/excel equivalents.

      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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      Steve Mayfield
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      Microsoft Mail (part of Windows Live) is the replacement for Outlook Express - I still use OE (or you could try Thunderbird)

      Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am

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        So I bought a new ultrabook, got the Asus as I liked the config, and wanted to get Outlook on it. Went to the Office 2010 web site and get driven nuts by the smarmy American accent (I know MS are an American company but some of us find the accent supremely irritating) trying to tell me about the benefits of Office. What a crock of shit. I only want Outlook, word and excel are useful I suppose and I'm reluctant to use a web based system as it offend my foil hat. I suppose if I use gmail I can integrate the android phone :sigh: So what is everyone using for their Email and word/excel equivalents.

        Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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        Lost User
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        Mycroft Holmes wrote:

        So what is everyone using for their Email

        Outlook, Windows Live Mail and gmail

        Mycroft Holmes wrote:

        and word/excel equivalents.

        Office 2003 All on Windows 7.

        Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman

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          Mycroft Holmes wrote:

          So what is everyone using for their Email

          Outlook, Windows Live Mail and gmail

          Mycroft Holmes wrote:

          and word/excel equivalents.

          Office 2003 All on Windows 7.

          Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman

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          Mycroft Holmes
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          Richard MacCutchan wrote:

          Office 2003

          You are a miserable bugger, even I have upgraded to Office 2007 and yeah I regret it!

          Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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            Richard MacCutchan wrote:

            Office 2003

            You are a miserable bugger, even I have upgraded to Office 2007 and yeah I regret it!

            Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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            Mycroft Holmes wrote:

            You are a miserable bugger

            Having looked at both 2007 and 2010 I know which I prefer; and it makes me feel quite :-D .

            Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman

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              So I bought a new ultrabook, got the Asus as I liked the config, and wanted to get Outlook on it. Went to the Office 2010 web site and get driven nuts by the smarmy American accent (I know MS are an American company but some of us find the accent supremely irritating) trying to tell me about the benefits of Office. What a crock of shit. I only want Outlook, word and excel are useful I suppose and I'm reluctant to use a web based system as it offend my foil hat. I suppose if I use gmail I can integrate the android phone :sigh: So what is everyone using for their Email and word/excel equivalents.

              Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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              OriginalGriff
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              I use Outlook, and you can buy it separately. But you can often get the whole suite cheaper and just install what you want to use...

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                So I bought a new ultrabook, got the Asus as I liked the config, and wanted to get Outlook on it. Went to the Office 2010 web site and get driven nuts by the smarmy American accent (I know MS are an American company but some of us find the accent supremely irritating) trying to tell me about the benefits of Office. What a crock of shit. I only want Outlook, word and excel are useful I suppose and I'm reluctant to use a web based system as it offend my foil hat. I suppose if I use gmail I can integrate the android phone :sigh: So what is everyone using for their Email and word/excel equivalents.

                Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                GuyThiebaut
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                I use gmail - and I find it even beats Outlook with its use of labels which allows me to file the same email into multiple folders... For Word, Excel replacements I use OpenOffice at home. Unfortunately for work there is nothing that outdoes Excel - if there is one product that is at the top of its category it is Excel.

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                  So I bought a new ultrabook, got the Asus as I liked the config, and wanted to get Outlook on it. Went to the Office 2010 web site and get driven nuts by the smarmy American accent (I know MS are an American company but some of us find the accent supremely irritating) trying to tell me about the benefits of Office. What a crock of shit. I only want Outlook, word and excel are useful I suppose and I'm reluctant to use a web based system as it offend my foil hat. I suppose if I use gmail I can integrate the android phone :sigh: So what is everyone using for their Email and word/excel equivalents.

                  Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                  Lost User
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                  Windows Live Mail. The older version, that isn't elephanting ugly. And hacked by myself to actually install on my frikken OS, which it refuses to do for no good reason (it works fine).

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                    I use gmail - and I find it even beats Outlook with its use of labels which allows me to file the same email into multiple folders... For Word, Excel replacements I use OpenOffice at home. Unfortunately for work there is nothing that outdoes Excel - if there is one product that is at the top of its category it is Excel.

                    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

                    ― Christopher Hitchens

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                    Mycroft Holmes
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                    GuyThiebaut wrote:

                    if there is one product that is at the top of its category it is Excel.

                    Unfortunately you are correct, it has way too many years of development in it to be replicated, I just wish they would stop using it a a bloody database. I bit the bullet and installed office, upgraded from 2003 to student and then to 2007 standard. Don't ask, I have done this on at least 3 computers over the last 5 years :sigh:

                    Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                      So I bought a new ultrabook, got the Asus as I liked the config, and wanted to get Outlook on it. Went to the Office 2010 web site and get driven nuts by the smarmy American accent (I know MS are an American company but some of us find the accent supremely irritating) trying to tell me about the benefits of Office. What a crock of shit. I only want Outlook, word and excel are useful I suppose and I'm reluctant to use a web based system as it offend my foil hat. I suppose if I use gmail I can integrate the android phone :sigh: So what is everyone using for their Email and word/excel equivalents.

                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                      Gary R Wheeler
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                      I use Thunderbird. I switched after 'Windows Mail' (aka Outlook Express) kept locking up while downloading e-mail from my ISP. Thunderbird seems to work pretty well. The only annoyance is the incredible number of updates that come out. As soon as my anti-virus app updates their TB add-on, TB updates and disables it due to 'incompatibilities'.

                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                        Richard MacCutchan wrote:

                        Office 2003

                        You are a miserable bugger, even I have upgraded to Office 2007 and yeah I regret it!

                        Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                        Jorgen Andersson
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                        I'm having office 2010, but wish I would be allowed to upgrade to 2003. :sigh:

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                          I'm having office 2010, but wish I would be allowed to upgrade to 2003. :sigh:

                          Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions

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                          Mycroft Holmes
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                          Jörgen Andersson wrote:

                          allowed to upgrade to 2003

                          Oh jusification for my stand on not moving from 2007 - it is likely that 2007 will be the last version of office I ever use...

                          Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                            Jörgen Andersson wrote:

                            allowed to upgrade to 2003

                            Oh jusification for my stand on not moving from 2007 - it is likely that 2007 will be the last version of office I ever use...

                            Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                            Jorgen Andersson
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                            Oh, I do find 2010 better than 2007, but 2003 doesn't have those Elephanting ribbons, so it wins! I still don't find shit in any office program after 2003.

                            Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions

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                              Oh, I do find 2010 better than 2007, but 2003 doesn't have those Elephanting ribbons, so it wins! I still don't find shit in any office program after 2003.

                              Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions

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                              Jeremy Rice
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                              I hated the ribbon at first when I switched from 2003 to 2007, but I got used to it. I recently got a new job where they have 2003, and I can't find anything all over again... grr!

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