Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: android Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: docx files on a Mac Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 19:53:25 +0100 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <210120140928190335%michelle@michelle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vtg+Rd5WdLY+BXoKj/y/jw6YUz0pRgR0ns5cf6836KI7RgjVlV Cancel-Lock: sha1:JQqdD4inO3EUgE6LTNBC7lgpix4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:20926 On 2014-01-27 16:57, John McWilliams wrote: > On 1/26/14 PDT, 5:02 PM, Suze wrote: >> In article , >> Erilar wrote: >> >>> Michelle Steiner wrote: >>>> In article , Erilar >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> How do you open one of these on a Mac without destroying the >>>>> formatting? >>>> >>>> Buy Word for the Mac; I think you would have to buy the home/student >>>> edition of Office for the Mac; it retails for $140, but you can get it >>>> for less; Amazon sells it for $114. Best Buy's price is $120. >>> >>> For one paper? I'll pass, thanks. >> >> The older MS Office 2008 will run on all Mac OS X up through Mavericks, >> and you can likely find a pretty reasonably priced new copy on ebay for >> $40-50. (Or one that has unused serial numbers with it) >> >> For PC compatibility you need it. Period. >> If you plan to write more, recommend just bite the bullet and buy a >> copy. >> > Bloody Steve Ballmer. Dork. I think that he got fired or something... -- teleportation kills