To David, Or you could install LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Both are free and both offer the same possibilities as MS Office. You can open .DOC or .XLS or .PPS files with both and save in these formats as well. I have no problem opening an .RTF filewith LibreOfficefrom within BK. Gilles de C. Paquette Le 2012-02-06 16:28, David Youse a ecrit : > Thanks so much for everyone's help and suggestions. Unfortunately there is no solution for my problem, which isn't really so much of a problem in that I can still create an RTF file in BK and save it. Then I can open Word to work on the file. It's just that after saving the file, BK can't call up Word. > > The problem is that I have MS Word Starter, which is not the same as MS Word. It is a limited free version and purposely bundled with Excel in such a way that either can ONLY be opened from the desktop icons. There is NO user-accessable exe file to open it. > > If I want to use BK to open Word I'll either have to upgrade to the paid version of Word, or try to find the disc for my older Word 2003 and instal that. > > David Youse > > > > > Effectus bonus addo bonus

same with me and OpenOffice. Works great with BK and opens any Word file. Jack in SW Ohio On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Gilles de C. Paquette < paquette.gdec@videotron.ca> wrote: > To David, > > Or you could install LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Both are free and both > offer the same possibilities as MS Office. You can open .DOC or .XLS or > .PPS files with both and save in these formats as well. > > I have no problem opening an .RTF filewith LibreOfficefrom within BK. > > Gilles de C. Paquette > > > Le 2012-02-06 16:28, David Youse a ecrit : > > Thanks so much for everyone's help and suggestions. Unfortunately there > is no solution for my problem, which isn't really so much of a problem in > that I can still create an RTF file in BK and save it. Then I can open > Word to work on the file. It's just that after saving the file, BK can't > call up Word. > > > > The problem is that I have MS Word Starter, which is not the same as MS > Word. It is a limited free version and purposely bundled with Excel in > such a way that either can ONLY be opened from the desktop icons. There is > NO user-accessable exe file to open it. > > > > If I want to use BK to open Word I'll either have to upgrade to the paid > version of Word, or try to find the disc for my older Word 2003 and instal > that. > > > > David Youse > > > > > > > > > > Effectus bonus addo bonus > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

I can also open MS Word (.doc) files from within BK using OpenOffice. Malcolm Webb mfwebb2005@btinternet.com <mailto:mfwebb2005@btinternet.com> -----Original Message----- From: bk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bk-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Gilles de C. Paquette Sent: 06 February 2012 22:03 To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BK] WinWord versions To David, Or you could install LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Both are free and both offer the same possibilities as MS Office. You can open .DOC or .XLS or .PPS files with both and save in these formats as well. I have no problem opening an .RTF filewith LibreOfficefrom within BK. Gilles de C. Paquette Le 2012-02-06 16:28, David Youse a ecrit : > Thanks so much for everyone's help and suggestions. Unfortunately there is no solution for my problem, which isn't really so much of a problem in that I can still create an RTF file in BK and save it. Then I can open Word to work on the file. It's just that after saving the file, BK can't call up Word. > > The problem is that I have MS Word Starter, which is not the same as MS Word. It is a limited free version and purposely bundled with Excel in such a way that either can ONLY be opened from the desktop icons. There is NO user-accessable exe file to open it. > > If I want to use BK to open Word I'll either have to upgrade to the paid version of Word, or try to find the disc for my older Word 2003 and instal that. > > David Youse > > > > > Effectus bonus addo bonus ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message