2010 version of Word

[Keitai]

I was sent a word document but dont have Microsoft Office. How can you edit or use such a document without it? Supposed to pay. Then found office 2010 cd seemed to install, shall I tick no updates or latest updates for this version? Will this older version work ok ?

 

[Deleted member 323070]

There is some software that will open word documents, but I don't have any names of them.
Try Google Docs.

If you're loading an old version of Office, and you have the serial number of the software, usually printed on he CD or the box, and you register it, it might update with new releases, or it might just be for bug fixes.
It won't hurt to select updates.


Microsoft Office will deal with older documents, but may not open newer versions.
If you have to open an older version, and you need to return it to sender, then don't update it to your version. Then may not be able to open it.

If document is just for your intended use, you can update it or keep it as the old version.

 

[yorksbuilder]

If you have wordpad installed it will open word docs but with limitations

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Just download WPS Office or similar off the Microsoft Store.

 

[robinbanks]

Microsoft Office is available free online these days, no need to install dodgy Chinese spyware clones, 15 years out of date versions or suffer the limitations of word pad etc

Free Microsoft 365 Online | Word, Excel, PowerPoint

With Microsoft 365 for the web you can edit and share Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files on your devices using a web browser.

www.microsoft.com

You just need to get your head around the notion that it runs inside a browser and stores its documents in onedrive (sharepoint, or whatever Microsoft renamed it to today), so you upload them to onedrive, edit them, save them there, and if you want a copy you can download to a disk(but if you're going to someone else's house who also has internet and eg want to use their printer you can just sign into your onedrive on their computer.. think of it like a usb stick that goes wherever there is internet and automatically backs itself up)

For more convenience yourself, you can have onedrive sync two way between a folder on your computer and one drive in the cloud, which is your backup and sharing sorted too

 

[StephenStephen]

OpenOffice is another option...

 

[JBR]

There is some software that will open word documents, but I don't have any names of them.

LibreOffice

I have MS Office 2007 installed, but for some reason which I don't understand it suddenly stopped working properly, and now takes around five minutes to open a document! Obviously, I couldn't really continue using the programme and I wasn't prepared to purchase a new, up to date version of Office as to continue to use it I'd be obliged to pay a substantial sum every year (I think about £85). That's just daylight robbery!

Instead, I found that LibreOffice (as the name suggests) can be downloaded for nowt, though I did make a reasonable donation.

LibreOffice is quite easy to learn and use, in fact it is very straightforward, and there is also an online users' forum if you need any advice. It also opens MS Office documents. I would certainly advise you try it especially if, like me, you are a tight-fisted bugger!

 

[robinbanks]

That's just daylight robbery!

Why do people always have this expectation that software should be free?

It's a tool that does a job; would you go out to a obtain a decent socket set and then complain that Halfords wanted 85 quid for one?

 

[JohnD]

I'm quite happy to pay for a socket set

But not to have to pay for it again, every year, or it stops working.

 

[robinbanks]

Written from a phone/broadband, that stops working if you stop paying for it

Written by a person who stops working if they stop getting paid


Life is full of subscriptions

I'll ask again. All those people that create those things you enjoy/use to enhance your life - why should the software developers not get paid what they ask? You're happy to pay for the computer the software runs on, and subscribe to the electricity and network it relies on.

Why do you not want to pay for the software that makes it useful?

Is it because you don't see it? It's not some tangible thing you can hold in your hand? Why can't you see that you're paying for the benefit of what it brings you?

Is it because some software is free, so you think all software should be free?

Just curious why you think all those people that put their collective hours into creating this thing that improves your life don't deserve to pay their mortgages and feed their kids?

85 quid is hardly a dent in tens of thousands of pounds you earn, for something that without you'd have to use a pen and paper, no qualms about buying pens or subscribing to the Amazon prime service that brings them to you

 

[JohnD]

All those people that create those things you enjoy/use to enhance your life - why should the software developers not get paid what they ask?

You don't, seriously, believe that after the sweatshop labourers got paid for assembling something, they get paid again, every year, forever.

 

[JohnD]

Just a moment, while I post my cheque to Morphy Richards, for the toaster I bought 20 years ago.

Then I'll send this month's payment to M&S for my socks.

 

[opps]

Just a moment, while I post my cheque to Morphy Richards, for the toaster I bought 20 years ago.

Then I'll send this month's payment to M&S for my socks.

But do Morphy Richards service the toaster each year and provide you with a terabyte of space in the cloud?

 

[JBR]

I'm quite happy for those who want to pay every year for MS Office. I'll stick with LibreOffice, thank you.

 

[evdamadiynot]

Linux,Audacity,Libre Office ,Firefox, Thunderbird,Gimp,
Regularly updated competent alternatives to the cartel offerings
All offered freely by people choose not to charge.
Of course if money is no object then stay in your shackles.