Page 1 of MS Works Suite 2005 £9.99

* Six Great Microsoft Products to Help You with Everyday Life
* Microsoft Works Suite includes:
* Word 2002
* Money 2005
* AutoRoute 2005
* Works 8.0
* Photo Premium 10
* Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2005

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add another £5 of goods for free delivery

Bugger, looks like £79.99 now.

LB2

you could always go for Works 7 for £3.95 on Amazon

Microsoft Works Suite 2006 OEM £41.13 inc VAT +PP at Scan
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I consider myself an optimist, albeit an optimist with cynical tendencies and a dark side that Lucifer himself would find a little creepy. (Perhaps you've noticed.) You don't normally associate cynicism with an upbeat pov. But I have exactly that combination and will defend it.

Would I be pushing my luck by pointing out that Open Office 2.0
is free on Download, and if you needed a decent personal database Oracle 10 express edition is also a free download

i`m also an Open Office user. Works was always cut out some of the functionality of Office, reduce the price, but often reduce compatability.

Open Office I`ve never had a problem with a MS Office file not opening correctly in Open Office, or an Open Office file (saved as an MS file) not opening in MS Office.

Al

www.admars.co.uk

until recently open office wasn`t too hot on opening some word format job applications forms in that though it looked okay on opening if you saved it in word format and then reloaded you`d find on some of them that it was messed up which was no good for online applications. Haven`t used such forms in a while due to that so maybe recent updates have improved it. Hmm nope or at least okay if saved in its own format aside from a few oddities but if saved in word format then can expand a form with 8 pages and multiple tables into 13 pages and corrupted tables. Otherwise perfectly okay

The new revision of open office is excellent. I stopped using it for a while due to formatting issues, but they seem to have been ironed out quite nicely now (needed a quick office suite on a newly formatted laptop).

I put it on a few machines at work while im sorting out licences and, i know its a cliche, but people genuinely dont notice. The only pain in the arse is that if you start a new document in Open Office, you have to save it as the microsoft version other wise you cant open it in MS Office. Open Office opens MS Office but, annoyingly, not vice versa (found that out the hard way).

I was actually going to post a few days ago that open office was a better and free alternative to works, but I couldnt be arsed at the time ;)

As has been said, Word has been butchered in Works to the point that its probably not even worth £9.99.

Earlier problems with Open Office and Word docs could be bad, so when I was doing app forms using it, i downloaded the free MS Word viewer, which well, lets you view not edit Word docs, much like Adobe Acrobat Reader is to Adobce Acrobat for pdf files.

That way you can make sure there`s no problems at home, if there are, change it at Work so it`s ok ;)

Al

www.admars.co.uk

Forgot to include another fantastic freebie - GIMP for all your photo and image editing needs . . . but note you`ll have to install GTK+ first, but as it is available from the same location its a doddle.