hi. ive just bought a new desktop PC powered by the latest Windows Vista Home Premium. the bad thing is it has no MS Office. i am applying for a new job in another hospital this month and i want to write my CV on MS Word. i would like to know which version of MS Office do i need to buy?
If you're just going to buy it to write a CV, or do the odd word processing, why not use open office? It's free, looks like MS office, and can save as a .doc format.
http://www.openoffice.org/
have to agree with ajbrun, use OpenOffice to write your cv. Or, you can download a trial version from MS, link is http://ukireland.trymicrosoftoffice....?culture=en-GB
when you mean "free" is it a FULL Software compared to Office and does it work almost excatly like Office?
It's an exceptionally full featured office package, never mind that it's free....it does work very similar to Office, in both features and functionality. I've found it less fiddly at time than Word.
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is it compatible with Windows Vista?
Yep works with vista
I use office at home and open office at work, works fine. Also lets you save as a pdf which is handy
what does PDF means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFOriginally Posted by gino_76ph
If you want to send somebody a copy of your CV its best done as a pdf. Theres viewers for most computers, mobile phones, etc, and its not editable (easilly). So once you send it, it stays how you want it, that includes formatting so the receivers print settings wont bugger it up.
Open office gives you:
Write - a word equivalent
Impress - a powerpoint equivalent
Calc - an excel equivalent
and then you get base, draw and math, which I never use.
but will my OpenOffice document open in a Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 ? ( as the PC in the hospital has no OpenOffice. and i don't know if they'll allow me to install it )
Yup
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going back to what Flibb mentioned if it's just a plain document ( CV, Monthly Expenses, plain letter, etc.) what format is it better to save... ".doc" or "PDF"? (if we consider stuff like memory space and accesibility to other PC's)
If you don't want everyone to have access to modify your docs on public computers then .pdf. For your own records & so it is editable by yourself then .doc
Remember if you save as .pdf, unless you have full blown Adobe Acrobat or similar you won't be able to edit the content easily. Size-wise there's probably very litle to worry about.
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If you still wanted MS Ofiice 2007 and you're an NHS employee with an NHS email address, you can get it free*, just pay postage fees £18 (however, OpenOffice is excellent).
https://www.microsoft.com/uk/nhs/lic...m/default.mspx
*"3. How much does it cost?
The software license itself is free, however there is a fee charged to cover packaging and handling costs, of approximately eighteen pounds."
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