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My computer is having a meltdown. I did a system restore & now it's at least running. But now, the restore deleted Office 365 & I can't get it to reinstall!!!!
All my Word documents.
I have Word starter 2010 on this hunk of junk, but it doesn't have all the options I have with 2016.
I am screaming.
I feel your pain all the way over here in Texas! I run a backup on an external hard drive about once a week, or after I've been doing a bunch of work on one of my books. I also have every book on a thumb drive. I so hope you get your documents back. I got dismissed from a school, not asked back to sub, when I questioned the use of computers and totally giving up books and hard copies. It's not if the computer crashes, it's when. And the big systems like in schools can too easily be hacked!
Write On! (after a tall cool glass of your favorite beverage!)
My computer is having a meltdown. I did a system restore & now it's at leas running. But now, the restore deleted Office 365 & I can't get it to reinstall!!!!
All my Word documents.
I have Word starter 2010 on this hunk of junk, but it doesn't have all the options I have with 2016.
I am screaming.
Until you get your Word 365 fixed, you can download free Apache Open Office. The Apache Writer part of it will allow you to save and open Word Documents.
Until you get your Word 365 fixed, you can download free Apache Open Office. The Apache Writer part of it will allow you to save and open Word Documents.
https://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html
Have you tried testing the compatibility between Open Office and Word? No doubt they say they can produce Word docs, but so does Google Docs. The conversion from Google was so bad (not a single conversion option worked), causing all kinds of formatting errors. I manually copied what I had written in Docs and created styles in the resulting Word doc. Google is way behind on styles, which is the source of most of the conversion problems. I would have bought a Google Chrome laptop some months back, but I'm very dependent on styles, among a few other key features.
A word of caution to all writers (and this may not be what happened to you, Janet, but I want to pass this along to all):
Hard drives have a shelf life of only a few years. If you have been using the same hard drive for 4-5+ years, with all your precious documents, family pictures, movies and whatnot, every time you turn the computer on, you are playing Russian Roulette. It will die one day and without warning.
Take your HD to a place and make a clone of it to an external hard disk. If you've been using the same system for years, do it soon. Tomorrow.
As far as backing up goes, Microsoft has a great piece of free software called SyncToy. You can get it from the MS site. The URL is:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/downloa … x?id=15155
It will run in Windows 10, but in order to use the task scheduler to automate backups, you have to do a tiny bit of fiddling (instructions are on the MS site also). There are three modes of operation:
Synchronize - which allows additions/revisions/deletions to be exchanged between source and destination
Echo - additions/deletions/revisions are only ECHOed to the destination from the source.
Contribute - additions/revisions are copied to the destination from the source, but deletions are not made.
I have it run every night, making sure that I have backups of my Documents directory on 2 separate USB drives.
Open Office works well for me as I do a lot of editing on my laptop which run only Linux. I've not noticed any problems between OE and Word, but I don't get too creative in the formatting arena anyway. One of the initial problems I had was that OE on Linux didn't have any of the fonts Word used. I installed them using the Ubuntu Software Center. Now I use the same fonts in both word processors.
~Tom
Oh, all the documents are there and on a flash drive and on my work computer. It's just that I couldn't open any to work on. I finally got it reinstalled a little while ago.
TirzahLaughs wrote:Until you get your Word 365 fixed, you can download free Apache Open Office. The Apache Writer part of it will allow you to save and open Word Documents.
https://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.htmlHave you tried testing the compatibility between Open Office and Word? No doubt they say they can produce Word docs, but so does Google Docs. The conversion from Google was so bad (not a single conversion option worked), causing all kinds of formatting errors. I manually copied what I had written in Docs and created styles in the resulting Word doc. Google is way behind on styles, which is the source of most of the conversion problems. I would have bought a Google Chrome laptop some months back, but I'm very dependent on styles, among a few other key features.
So far it's working for me.
Oh, all the documents are there and on a flash drive and on my work computer. It's just that I couldn't open any to work on. I finally got it reinstalled a little while ago.
Glad you got it. I'm still running Office 2007. My pension doesn't cover upgrades. 
What features in 2010+ have you found useful?
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