Recent content by DoubtingThomasina

Civility, kindness, maturity are a few choices, but at the least, howsabout reading comprehension? Fair play if you don't get something, we all can't be all things to all people, but don't presume to answer a question you don't understand, and then insult the poster in the process. And Grobe, I...

You're a MODERATOR? Good thing, otherwise, a post like that would be deleted for being nasty, angry and dismissive.

My printer prints out stuff from the glass, so I don't have to type out backup, it acts like a thing called a copy machine!! And I thought I made it clear from what I wrote so many posts ago, "Someone told me that I could get an Apple laptop or a Mac with Apple's WP software preloaded as part of...

Understand, I'm not questioning anyone's expertise, I came here looking for answers beyond my ken, so the very action implies that I am looking to people who know more than I do. The difference for me is that when I do business with Microsoft, I know I am doing business with Microsoft, I make a...

Thank you both for your help, but I think the big tech stranglehold has gotten so powerful that even people with modest requirements for computing no longer have control over their own home set ups. Understand, I don't doubt the efficacy of the freeware you all have recommended, but I'm not...

Because as I said, Excel just disappeared off my system like word did, so when I clicked on the file, it said, what do you want to use to open this, and it had Acrobat, so I clicked on it, and it opened it, and when I went to check and see if I could save it as a .pdf, I couldn't find anything...

Someone told me that I could get an Apple laptop or a Mac with Apple's WP software preloaded as part of the purchase, so I would not have to go online to download anything. It was a casual conversation, so I didn't know if it was true, I would still work off of my current desktop PC for online...

I'm happy for you, but my Excel file that I managed to open on Acrobat clearly says it is saved to the cloud, and when you click on the thing saying you want to save it to your system, you get three big lozenges with different prices in them asking you to pick which one you want to sign up for...

Hi, thanks, I remember you from the thread I posted in August, I just don't trust freeware. There was one file on Excel that would have been a major loss, and I was able to open it with Adobe Acrobat, which MS downloaded on my PC while I was trying to find a solution to the Word thing, and it...

Hi, this may be weedy as can be, but I'll try to be clear. I posted in this forum in August about how Word completely disappeared from my system; it never came back, MS issued a ticket and then ignored my emails, and now, Excel has done the same thing. And I'm not the only one this stuff is...

Relying on your USAF oath and the fact that you talk up back up, I may give it a try tomorrow, thank you!

Oh, THANKS A LOT, and a good night to you, too! :) It's just your garden-variety HP desktop hard drive, they usually last me about 8 years, but in so many ways, it IS a new dawn!

Freeware has always frightened me, are they really safe and secure? I'm going to have to spend time in the basement tomorrow, the key may be in with old papers and such.

I'd have better luck getting Oprah to clean my oven! And as for digging out the key with a software tool, that flew so far over my head, the chandelier moved! Time is an issue because Word is really program I use all the time, and luck sometimes is my friend, sometimes not, but the store does...

Absolutely NO offense taken, you can't imagine how much I appreciate your wanting to help. If I had my violin handy, I could really tell you what's getting in the way of my searching for the code, but it may come to me with a night's sleep. Conversationally, have you ever heard of such a thing...