Mikie you seem to be partly right. I have Windows 7 and Office 2007 and Wordpad will open my .docx files. After your post I tried opening my older .doc files and you are correct they open as gibberish. While I am alone in the wilderness I still feel more people should save in RTF format to get away from being tied to MS. I have a neighbour looking for work and often he cannot submit a resume as requested in Word format as he has a Mac so he was coming here to submit. I created his resume in RTF and now his Mac Pages program accepts that and so do the companies where he has applied so far.

the trial version is usually not the regular full version of Microsoft office it is usually the Home and Student version as in the link I will give you below. Since they are different versions I would say you should do a full install with your disc of your MS office 7. the version that comes as a trial can be very difficulty to remove, using REVO uninstaller (free) will help to remove it fully. You may want to google this remove microsoft office home and student 2007 trial. You will then see some of the problems with it. Here is a link to REVO. Revo Uninstaller just be sure you get the free download. If by some off chance your pc did come with the full version of MS office 7 I think I would still do the uninstall and reinstall the full version from your disc so you know exactly what you have and do not risk running into a problem with using your existing key code. I would definitely do the removal prior to the install as to order. Here is a link that might be useful: office home and student

I looked at the page and it looks legitimate to me. MS gives huge discounts to students. The other domains in the page source are ok also. Digital River is used by many companies for digital software downloads. w3.org is the World Wide Web Consortium. The other sites in the list box are just sites MS is using for other countries. I've downloaded commercial software in the past and I've learned to burn a CD or DVD as soon as I get it downloaded. I install from the CD to ensure it's a good copy, then put it in a CD case with a label that includes name of the software and the license key (as well as anything else I might need to know the next time I change PCs or have a hard drive crash).

Works is the only word processor I have ever worked with, other than a couple of times on DH's computer. At least I am slightly familiar with it. Works won't let me change to a RTF or a txt. DH tried that. The old system is XP about 5 yrs old. It came on that computer, no seperate disc to install it. This new one is Windows 7. I have almost everything changed over using Office 2003 that I installed on the old computer to make the changes. Now I have to decide if I'm going to fight with figuring out how to make everything open in Open Office, or if I'm going to go buy Office Home & Student.I have a few files, like our trip journals that I have inserted photos into, and it doesn't want to copy and paste into Word, so I haven't decided what I'm going to do about that. Dad has a collection of antique gas hit and miss engines that I made an inventory of with all the serial numbers that we could read. He has a printed copy and I have the computer copy. It won't c & p that either, so I will put that on a flash drive and DH will print that off at work, so we at least have 2 hard copies. That's about 30 pages in color! I may try coping and pasting a page at a time instead of the whole document, but I've had enough sitting by the freezing cold window working on it for 2 days! I am learning to like sitting in my recliner with the computer in my lap in the winter! I guess with the flu in the house and my DB's accident yesterday, and my frustrations with the computer, I am just in a grumbling mood! So thanks for putting up with me! Tami