Date:         Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:48:55 -0500
Reply-To:     Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      NVC at all - computer questions
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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?

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?

Any advice would be most appreciated!



Joy


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Joy Hecht
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon

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