Reply to: Broken XP help

[TheMonkey]

Wordstar?

I have to admit that you are correct. Only the CP/M version though.

[VectraMan]

Lame sarcasm won't help you.

Shame really as that's what I do best.

[Angela_D]

yes....... I didn't realise certain combinations of characters were censored

[Angela_D]

"Why, does google load and save excel files? "

Lame sarcasm won't help you.

1) Google would have answered your file format question regardin Open Office in a moment as I pasted.

2) Yes, Google will with Excel files: http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/tour1.html

[Mordac]

The MS Action pack contains Office 2003 (including Visio & Project) and a whole load of other stuff for the princely sum of £200 a year.

[VectraMan]

Have you tried Google ?

Why, does google load and save excel files?

I've now given up on the old install, and contributed to Bill's coffers to the tune of £250 so sort out my Excel problem.

I'd happily ditch MS office, but then my accountant wants excel files, and everybody seems to work with MS Word files, so I can't see it as anything other than an essential tool for being a contractor. Personally I'd rather use WordPad than Word.

[TheMonkey]

I'll stick with Microsoft Office actually. I used OpenOffice for about 3 months and it has been consistently slower and more buggy than MSO.

There is NOTHING more stable than Office 2002 SP3

[mcquiggd]

... you mean people want to be able to use Microsoft Office instead....?

[MrsGoof]

and soon Microsoft s'ware will be compatible with open office http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5153350.stm,
I think this says something about the quality of OpenOffice

[Angela_D]

Have you tried Google ?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice_Calc

Calc is capable of opening and saving spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel file format.

[VectraMan]

Dump excel and stick openoffice on.

Does it load and save excel files?

[Angela_D]

thinking out loud

May be too late for Last Known Good Configuration menu option.

There are free rescue CDs that you can boot from

Boot from the XP CD and go with the Recovery Console. Disable the 'bad' drivers. in the registry cancel pending actions (the setup)

MAYBE holding Shift whilst Windows GUI is booting.

[nobody here but us chicke]

Excel?

Dump excel and stick openoffice on.

[AlfredJPruffock]

3. Always pray when making driver and hardware changes.

Hence plug and pray.

Amen

[TheMonkey]

ATI cards are notorious for crap silicon and crap drivers.

Throw the card in the bin (or ebay it) and stick either a mid-range Nvidia card in or an old Matrox G400 if all you do is 2D work.

My nice P4-3.6 workstation has a circa 2001 Matrox G450 32Mb dual head card in it that cost about £15 second hand.