Originally Posted By Gunnar Jonny
There is several very good alternatives to MS Office at no cost.
I.e. Libre Office ( http://www.libreoffice.org/ )
It's a full Office pack, and will handle most of the fileformats.
Just remember to set it to handle files as MS Office files during install, or in options afterwards.
Then it will save all files as if you did it in Word, Excel etc.


Yes, I remember seeing "libroffice" somewhere on the Net. But doesn't it save in a proprietary format? Or....does it save in a format that Microsoft products can open up?

I don't want to go through this again....not realizing that the format I'm saving my databases in will someday cease to exist.