On 02/06/15 16:33, Bob Hobden wrote:

I put Ubuntu on an old Vista laptop and it works well but I'm not sure I
want to change over everything especially as the printer of the newsletter I
publish insists on MS Word being used.

Just download LibreOffice (it's free) and save any documents in *.doc or
*.docx format. For simple docs it'll work fine. For complex docs you
might well see some layout differences.

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Jeff