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You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds
amazing. Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet that prefer it, I thought I would ask. 1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at some point. 2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the shipping (illegal?) 3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for *sale*, so bought them years ago. I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on here (MS Office 2003) Cheers.......Figgs "Mike M" wrote in message ... As Figgs says (or meant to say), Yum, yum! -- Mike Dai Artichoke-Lewis wrote: I used to go to the supermarket across town on my 140 mph production racer motorbike (back when that was *fast*) and bring home a couple of shopping bags full of groceries on it. Then my girlfriend moved in with me and she used to carry them on the back (which was so funny!). Later I used backpacks. I still walk to the supermarket and carry a backpack's worth home, for the exercise, but have been shopping online off and on for close to a decade now. However - as you might reasonably guess, what with my general posting history - I am *very* particular. Probably about everything but especially about food; and with the biker sensibility regarding being ripped off. So basically if the food was crap I wouldn't be buying it - and that applies to nutritional content as well as to more traditional quality. http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp Sainsbury's do annoy the hell out of me at times. Their site seems to be maintained by someone who changes the layout every few weeks as though we go there for entertainment and the point of the site is to show how they 'get' IT. And some weeks ago they dropped Baked In-Store Harvest Grain farmhouse loaves, though they are still available in the actual stores! You'd think they were charged for the site a rate dependent on the number of items on offer. It's bloody well snowing again! Probably tomorrow I'll make the linguini dish I got the wine for (well, after the required 100ml, the rest is fair game for quaffing. In fact I think I'll have a glass before I hit the sack). I've got fan-tailed prawns from Thailand or Mussels from Chile (both from Tesco, actually. Sainsbury's do the Chilean mussels too, but they're half the price in Tesco. And they do a very nice Rustic Multigrain baked in-store loaf). Not sure which to have. Or there's a spaghetti dish with red-wine vinegar and spinach and chilli flakes and pine nuts; won't be having that as didn't get any pine nuts. The linguini uses half-fat creme fraiche, juice of half a lemon, fresh chives. Both recipes use garlic (but just about everything I make contains garlic). The spaghetti dish also uses shaved and grated parmesan, and actually I have quite a lot of that to use up, so I'd better get to the shops some time in the week and get the rest. That is a tasty wine! An online grocery shopping tip for anyone who's interested. Order deliveries for around mid-week. At the weekends the shoppers are likely to be students or other relatively inexperienced types. It is less important if you select 'no substitutes' (That is, if they don't have what you want, they'll give you something similar. Now, if I wanted something else I'd have ordered it in the first place. If they don't have what I want I'll either do without or get what I do want, elsewhere; though 99% of the time they have everything these days anyway); but substitutes or not you're still more likely to get what you want - such as a fresher bag of spuds, say, from a shopper who does it every day. |
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I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this box
in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I do have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so if you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most comfortable with. -- Mike Heather wrote: You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds amazing. Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet that prefer it, I thought I would ask. 1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at some point. 2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the shipping (illegal?) 3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for *sale*, so bought them years ago. I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on here (MS Office 2003) |
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Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on two
different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE had the decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note, grin. My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a curtailed one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at Corel who sent me a full version, but damned if I know where that is. Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish and failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla and are now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into the country (heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those not into genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons. Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me hungry. (G) "Mike M" wrote in message ... I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I do have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so if you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most comfortable with. -- Mike Heather wrote: You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds amazing. Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet that prefer it, I thought I would ask. 1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at some point. 2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the shipping (illegal?) 3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for *sale*, so bought them years ago. I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on here (MS Office 2003) |
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Didn't Corel take over PaintShop Pro ? I have version 7 of PaintShop Pro the
Anniversay Edition here but haven't got it on this machine in either Vista or Windows 7. I know I get regular emails from Serif with offers for their programs but as I'm not into photo or video editing I don't see the point spending money on such things. I'm another one that hardly ever uses Word, I just use Excel, I have Home & Student 2007 version which just comes with Excel, Word, Power Point and OneNote. The snow started again this afternoon but turned into rain, don't know what it's going to do overnight the temperature at the moment is down to freezing. -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Heather" wrote in message ... Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on two different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE had the decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note, grin. My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a curtailed one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at Corel who sent me a full version, but damned if I know where that is. Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish and failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla and are now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into the country (heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those not into genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons. Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me hungry. (G) "Mike M" wrote in message ... I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I do have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so if you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most comfortable with. -- Mike Heather wrote: You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds amazing. Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet that prefer it, I thought I would ask. 1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at some point. 2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the shipping (illegal?) 3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for *sale*, so bought them years ago. I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on here (MS Office 2003) |
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"Heather" wrote in message ... "Dai Artichoke-Lewis" wrote in message ... Probably tomorrow I'll make the linguini dish I got the wine for (well, after the required 100ml, the rest is fair game for quaffing. In fact I think I'll have a glass before I hit the sack). I've got fan-tailed prawns from Thailand or Mussels from Chile (both from Tesco, actually. Sainsbury's do the Chilean mussels too, but they're half the price in Tesco. And they do a very nice Rustic Multigrain baked in-store loaf). Not sure which to have. Or there's a spaghetti dish with red-wine vinegar and spinach and chilli flakes and pine nuts; won't be having that as didn't get any pine nuts. The linguini uses half-fat creme fraiche, juice of half a lemon, fresh chives. Both recipes use garlic (but just about everything I make contains garlic). The spaghetti dish also uses shaved and grated parmesan, and actually I have quite a lot of that to use up, so I'd better get to the shops some time in the week and get the rest. That is a tasty wine! If you truly cook all of those things, I do have a spare room here. You probably have Sir Michael (the gourmand) absolutely drooling!! I may take you up on that, if you stay on line long enough for me to squeeze down the phone line and through that transatlantic cable. Can Rosie come too? Shane |
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"Art" wrote in message ... "Heather" wrote in message ... "Dai Artichoke-Lewis" wrote in message ... Probably tomorrow I'll make the linguini dish I got the wine for (well, after the required 100ml, the rest is fair game for quaffing. In fact I think I'll have a glass before I hit the sack). I've got fan-tailed prawns from Thailand or Mussels from Chile (both from Tesco, actually. Sainsbury's do the Chilean mussels too, but they're half the price in Tesco. And they do a very nice Rustic Multigrain baked in-store loaf). Not sure which to have. Or there's a spaghetti dish with red-wine vinegar and spinach and chilli flakes and pine nuts; won't be having that as didn't get any pine nuts. The linguini uses half-fat creme fraiche, juice of half a lemon, fresh chives. Both recipes use garlic (but just about everything I make contains garlic). The spaghetti dish also uses shaved and grated parmesan, and actually I have quite a lot of that to use up, so I'd better get to the shops some time in the week and get the rest. That is a tasty wine! If you truly cook all of those things, I do have a spare room here. You probably have Sir Michael (the gourmand) absolutely drooling!! I may take you up on that, if you stay on line long enough for me to squeeze down the phone line and through that transatlantic cable. Can Rosie come too? Does Rosie cook?? LOL. I wish, but I think she would have to be quarantined for a while. Lady Mary Elizabeth Countess of Werewolfshire |
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Since this threatens to be the longest thread in ME.general's history, I may
as well join in I used to use PSP7 - but don't recall it being any sort of Anniversary thingy? Nowadays, unless it needs something specific, Irfanview does the lion's share of the work. WP again - I used to use it back in the days of DOS.... maybe WP3 or 4??.... when Windows came out, I converted the few files I had to Word, and never looked back (I was too busy runningg). As for pasta.... The schedule here is for me to make a Bolognese on Thursday - all welcome, if you can get here through the floods which will (obviously) follow the thaw that's (so the weathermen say) coming tomorrow/Thurs/Fri. My only problem is where to get decent Pork mince - I like to use 1/2:1/2 pork/beef if I can - it improves the texture immensely. The rest is fairly standard. If I was brave I'd have a go at making my own spaghetti - but it'd cost a small fortune to buy the 'proper' equipment, and I can't be bothered to do it the old-fashioned way I suspect that I'm going to have to compromise on the wine to go with the Bolognese - I'm the only one I know of the four scheduled to attend who actually drinks red wine..... so getting a decent Chianti is out of the question... Lidl may have something to offer when I go shopping tomorrow ( their Chateauneuf was very palatable - especially at 'only' £7 a pop!). Perhaps a reasonable Rioja? It's likely to end up being either Lidl or Tesco.... since 17th Dec I'm not allowed to drive as I was naughty, and got my license confiscated for 12 months Enough already!... I've made myself hungry again - and I only ate a couple of hours ago! -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... Didn't Corel take over PaintShop Pro ? I have version 7 of PaintShop Pro the Anniversay Edition here but haven't got it on this machine in either Vista or Windows 7. I know I get regular emails from Serif with offers for their programs but as I'm not into photo or video editing I don't see the point spending money on such things. I'm another one that hardly ever uses Word, I just use Excel, I have Home & Student 2007 version which just comes with Excel, Word, Power Point and OneNote. The snow started again this afternoon but turned into rain, don't know what it's going to do overnight the temperature at the moment is down to freezing. -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Heather" wrote in message ... Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on two different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE had the decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note, grin. My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a curtailed one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at Corel who sent me a full version, but damned if I know where that is. Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish and failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla and are now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into the country (heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those not into genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons. Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me hungry. (G) "Mike M" wrote in message ... I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I do have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so if you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most comfortable with. -- Mike Heather wrote: You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds amazing. Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet that prefer it, I thought I would ask. 1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at some point. 2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the shipping (illegal?) 3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for *sale*, so bought them years ago. I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on here (MS Office 2003) |
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"Count Friedrich Von Artichoke-Artichoke XXIII" wrote in message ... Insanely revealing What, you mean about the garlic? Not really, it was aimed at the given details, but then that effort seemed to be necessary for Figgs to get inspired. My brother's brother. Dai's brother "webster72n" wrote in message ... "Dai Artichoke-Lewis" wrote in message ... I used to go to the supermarket across town on my 140 mph production racer motorbike (back when that was *fast*) and bring home a couple of shopping bags full of groceries on it. Then my girlfriend moved in with me and she used to carry them on the back (which was so funny!). Later I used backpacks. I still walk to the supermarket and carry a backpack's worth home, for the exercise, but have been shopping online off and on for close to a decade now. However - as you might reasonably guess, what with my general posting history - I am *very* particular. Probably about everything but especially about food; and with the biker sensibility regarding being ripped off. So basically if the food was crap I wouldn't be buying it - and that applies to nutritional content as well as to more traditional quality. http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp Sainsbury's do annoy the hell out of me at times. Their site seems to be maintained by someone who changes the layout every few weeks as though we go there for entertainment and the point of the site is to show how they 'get' IT. And some weeks ago they dropped Baked In-Store Harvest Grain farmhouse loaves, though they are still available in the actual stores! You'd think they were charged for the site a rate dependent on the number of items on offer. It's bloody well snowing again! Probably tomorrow I'll make the linguini dish I got the wine for (well, after the required 100ml, the rest is fair game for quaffing. In fact I think I'll have a glass before I hit the sack). I've got fan-tailed prawns from Thailand or Mussels from Chile (both from Tesco, actually. Sainsbury's do the Chilean mussels too, but they're half the price in Tesco. And they do a very nice Rustic Multigrain baked in-store loaf). Not sure which to have. Or there's a spaghetti dish with red-wine vinegar and spinach and chilli flakes and pine nuts; won't be having that as didn't get any pine nuts. The linguini uses half-fat creme fraiche, juice of half a lemon, fresh chives. Both recipes use garlic (but just about everything I make contains garlic). The spaghetti dish also uses shaved and grated parmesan, and actually I have quite a lot of that to use up, so I'd better get to the shops some time in the week and get the rest. That is a tasty wine! An online grocery shopping tip for anyone who's interested. Order deliveries for around mid-week. At the weekends the shoppers are likely to be students or other relatively inexperienced types. It is less important if you select 'no substitutes' (That is, if they don't have what you want, they'll give you something similar. Now, if I wanted something else I'd have ordered it in the first place. If they don't have what I want I'll either do without or get what I do want, elsewhere; though 99% of the time they have everything these days anyway); but substitutes or not you're still more likely to get what you want - such as a fresher bag of spuds, say, from a shopper who does it every day. Insanely revealing, but interesting all around, "Lewis". To your health and your girlfriend's and your cat's. Harry, aka 'Winnie the Poo'. "webster72n" wrote in message ... Interesting to hear (read) all these personal, yet otherwise public stories. Of course we could 'order' our groceries or any other items and have them delivered as well, here in the States or any other place, I presume. Only personally I prefer to see what I am getting, most of the time. Especially with the food being 'contaminated' with all kinds of chemicals as so-called preservatives or other deadly 'invaders' and to top it off 'eradiated', meaning they are nutritionally 'dead'. Yet in your case, Joan, you don't have much of a choice, if any. And that's a pity, I must say. On the other hand you may have special protection and I certainly hope so. The best to You and All, Harry. "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... I like to see what I'm buying on certain things, which is why I do a Friday top up shop but that's only for a few things and I have that delivered g well it's a bit hard trying to carry shopping and use a walking stick and all on a bus g The big shop though, tins and frozen don't need to be specially picked and the shopper always goes for the best date and you're told if it's not got such a good date as they'd like, you can send it back if you don't want it and get your money refunded. I would struggle here without electricity, the village doesn't have mains gas, I have to heat light and cook with electric, well the heating is oil but it needs the electric to make it work. The only problem with using the fire is that it's only heating one room, all that mess for one room, and I'm mainly down the other end in my office on the computer so wouldn't get any benefit g Not sunny here today it's been snowing for most of it g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Heather" wrote in message ... How amazing!! You folks get your groceries delivered???? That is so 1950's to us. Mind you, I would be quite happy not to have to go out in minus 20C weather. We have piped in natural gas for the furnace, so other than a major explosion somewhere, no problems for heat. If the hydro (electricity) went down, we would have NO water, furnace or lights. Happened a few summers ago and we were 4 days without the above. I think not having hydro was worse than water.........at least I could buy bottled stuff. Oh, and can't use our fireplace because in 22 years we have never had a chimney sweep clean it out and won't use it until we do. 3 doors down had a fire in the walls caused by the creosote buildup and the idiots didn't have any insurance. It is MANDATORY if one has a mortgage, so not sure how they got around that one. As no one seems to be working in that family, I can only assume they are on Social Assistance (PC word for welfare). I could go online and order groceries to be delivered, but somehow just can't do it. I want to see what I am buying!! Sunny, but cold here........Heather |
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I only use PSP7 for adding text to pics. Otherwise, yes, Irfanview is the
beez whoopeez As for pasta...and chianti...yes, Anthony Hopkins is Welsh, too, isn't he! Presumably by 'pork' you're referring to long pig? otoh I'd forgotten what a p1sshead you are! So I guess you are a jock after all! Thaw you say? I'm starting to think this is 1963 pt. 2. Not that I can remember pt. 1. Really the only red wine I've liked is the Roussillon - from the Cave and a litre costing less than coke (a cola, of course. Though at one time I had the use of the Swiss chalet of very wealthy French family friends - I probably commented here about it at the time, 2003 iirc - and I was told I could take a bottle from the wine cellar? I chose a Chianti. That was when I formed the opinion that just because a bottle is decades old, doesn't make it good! I don't think I was meant to take such an old one but didn't look at the date until it was on the table, and at that point 'ah, what the f...' seemed the appropriate response). Bleedin' Live Mail flagging 'litre' as mis-spelt! Anyway, 'Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio' - £5 in Sainsbury's right now, £5.99 normally (so hardly discounted at all!), is a tasty dry-ish white! From Tesco pre-Chrissy there was a decent Chilean Sauvignon Blanc iirc and Banrock Reserve Chardonnay (?) both discounted for under a fiver and pretty good! There's a lot of discounted Italian lately but I doubt I'll drink Italian wine ever again. Now, I'm sure I meant to insult you one more time...guess I'll have to post again! "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Since this threatens to be the longest thread in ME.general's history, I may as well join in I used to use PSP7 - but don't recall it being any sort of Anniversary thingy? Nowadays, unless it needs something specific, Irfanview does the lion's share of the work. WP again - I used to use it back in the days of DOS.... maybe WP3 or 4??.... when Windows came out, I converted the few files I had to Word, and never looked back (I was too busy runningg). As for pasta.... The schedule here is for me to make a Bolognese on Thursday - all welcome, if you can get here through the floods which will (obviously) follow the thaw that's (so the weathermen say) coming tomorrow/Thurs/Fri. My only problem is where to get decent Pork mince - I like to use 1/2:1/2 pork/beef if I can - it improves the texture immensely. The rest is fairly standard. If I was brave I'd have a go at making my own spaghetti - but it'd cost a small fortune to buy the 'proper' equipment, and I can't be bothered to do it the old-fashioned way I suspect that I'm going to have to compromise on the wine to go with the Bolognese - I'm the only one I know of the four scheduled to attend who actually drinks red wine..... so getting a decent Chianti is out of the question... Lidl may have something to offer when I go shopping tomorrow ( their Chateauneuf was very palatable - especially at 'only' £7 a pop!). Perhaps a reasonable Rioja? It's likely to end up being either Lidl or Tesco.... since 17th Dec I'm not allowed to drive as I was naughty, and got my license confiscated for 12 months Enough already!... I've made myself hungry again - and I only ate a couple of hours ago! -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... Didn't Corel take over PaintShop Pro ? I have version 7 of PaintShop Pro the Anniversay Edition here but haven't got it on this machine in either Vista or Windows 7. I know I get regular emails from Serif with offers for their programs but as I'm not into photo or video editing I don't see the point spending money on such things. I'm another one that hardly ever uses Word, I just use Excel, I have Home & Student 2007 version which just comes with Excel, Word, Power Point and OneNote. The snow started again this afternoon but turned into rain, don't know what it's going to do overnight the temperature at the moment is down to freezing. -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Heather" wrote in message ... Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on two different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE had the decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note, grin. My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a curtailed one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at Corel who sent me a full version, but damned if I know where that is. Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish and failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla and are now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into the country (heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those not into genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons. Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me hungry. (G) "Mike M" wrote in message ... I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I do have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so if you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most comfortable with. -- Mike Heather wrote: You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds amazing. Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet that prefer it, I thought I would ask. 1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at some point. 2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the shipping (illegal?) 3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for *sale*, so bought them years ago. I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on here (MS Office 2003) |
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The one I bought was called the 10th Anniversary Edition it came with the
book Paint Shop Pro 7 & Animation Shop 3 Getting Started Guide and a really thick book Reference Guide both printed in 2001 but I think it said that the year 2000 was the 10th Anniversary of the program, blimey where's the time gone g -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Since this threatens to be the longest thread in ME.general's history, I may as well join in I used to use PSP7 - but don't recall it being any sort of Anniversary thingy? Nowadays, unless it needs something specific, Irfanview does the lion's share of the work. WP again - I used to use it back in the days of DOS.... maybe WP3 or 4??.... when Windows came out, I converted the few files I had to Word, and never looked back (I was too busy runningg). As for pasta.... The schedule here is for me to make a Bolognese on Thursday - all welcome, if you can get here through the floods which will (obviously) follow the thaw that's (so the weathermen say) coming tomorrow/Thurs/Fri. My only problem is where to get decent Pork mince - I like to use 1/2:1/2 pork/beef if I can - it improves the texture immensely. The rest is fairly standard. If I was brave I'd have a go at making my own spaghetti - but it'd cost a small fortune to buy the 'proper' equipment, and I can't be bothered to do it the old-fashioned way I suspect that I'm going to have to compromise on the wine to go with the Bolognese - I'm the only one I know of the four scheduled to attend who actually drinks red wine..... so getting a decent Chianti is out of the question... Lidl may have something to offer when I go shopping tomorrow ( their Chateauneuf was very palatable - especially at 'only' £7 a pop!). Perhaps a reasonable Rioja? It's likely to end up being either Lidl or Tesco.... since 17th Dec I'm not allowed to drive as I was naughty, and got my license confiscated for 12 months Enough already!... I've made myself hungry again - and I only ate a couple of hours ago! -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Joan Archer" wrote in message ... Didn't Corel take over PaintShop Pro ? I have version 7 of PaintShop Pro the Anniversay Edition here but haven't got it on this machine in either Vista or Windows 7. I know I get regular emails from Serif with offers for their programs but as I'm not into photo or video editing I don't see the point spending money on such things. I'm another one that hardly ever uses Word, I just use Excel, I have Home & Student 2007 version which just comes with Excel, Word, Power Point and OneNote. The snow started again this afternoon but turned into rain, don't know what it's going to do overnight the temperature at the moment is down to freezing. -- Joan Archer http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher "Heather" wrote in message ... Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on two different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE had the decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note, grin. My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a curtailed one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at Corel who sent me a full version, but damned if I know where that is. Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish and failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla and are now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into the country (heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those not into genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons. Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me hungry. (G) "Mike M" wrote in message ... I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I do have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so if you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most comfortable with. -- Mike Heather wrote: You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds amazing. Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet that prefer it, I thought I would ask. 1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at some point. 2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the shipping (illegal?) 3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for *sale*, so bought them years ago. I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on here (MS Office 2003) |
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