hi joy,

On Mar 7, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It's Friday, and I'm stumped on some irrelevant stuff, so I thought
> I'd
> email you folks and see if anyone can help.
>
> I just got a new laptop - IBM compatible, running XP, which is the
> same as
> my old (falling apart) one.  I'm trying to deal with loading
> software on it,
> and having various problems:
>
> 1. I have a legal copy of Office 2003.  I loaded it on the new
> machine.
> Word and Excel work, but when I run Outlook it tells me the
> MAPI32.DLL file
> is corrupted or not compatible, and that might be because I had
> installed
> another messaging system.  I haven't.  I reinstalled Office, it
> does the
> same.  The new computer has a trial version of Office 2007, and I did
> unthinkingly start that version of Outlook, thinking it would
> essentially
> turn out to be a legal update of my 2003 Office.  (Foolish me!)  I
> don't
> know if that's why 2003 won't work.  Does anyone have any
> suggestions on
> this?
>
> 2.  I have a pirated copy of SPSS which I assume I can't move over
> to the
> new machine.  Does anyone know of freeware statistical packages
> that can do
> basic work (cross tabs, comparative means, etc.) on SPSS (.sav)
> data files?
>
>
> 3.  A friend suggested I use openoffice instead of MS Office.
> Alas, it
> won't solve my Outlook problems, but I'm still considering it.  Has
> anyone
> used it?  What do you think?

i use open office and it works fine.  i use it on my mac, my linux
desktop
and my wifes pc.  no problems reading ms office files.

> 4. I also have a pirated copy of Photoshop, which I also assume I
> can't move
> to the new machine.  I could buy Photoshop, it's nothing like as
> expensive
> as SPSS, but are there freeware packages that do similar things?

the gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) should do all you need.  it
has
a fairly steep learning curve, but once you learn it you may like it
better than
photoshop.

r

Ron Tipton
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