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I'm in the market for a laptop, it'll only be used for surfing and looking for jobs etc. How do these here Chrome books work with regards to using Word documents? Or shoudl I just stump up and get a windows laptop?


 
Posted : 25/03/2019 6:26 pm
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Google Docd, try it from your browser now 🙂 Opens up word fine, some minor formatting issues but you can export as PDF if formatting is important to you. Will open just about any text doc you need


 
Posted : 25/03/2019 6:44 pm
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Google or even the online word editor for basic docs


 
Posted : 25/03/2019 6:51 pm
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LibreOffice is your friend...

https://www.libreoffice.org/


 
Posted : 25/03/2019 6:58 pm
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I thought I'd give a chromebook a go about 3 years ago; picked one up for about £100 on here and thought if I can't get on with it, then I can punt it on again.

Still using it now...... only reason I haven't upgraded is because this one goes on and on, and has yet to let me down with any of the word / excel / powerpoint type programs that come under the google docs suite. I can import and export MS programs, there was a bit of a learning curve with some slightly different ways to do something but basically if you can work MS you can work Google Docs

Do it.... way better than laptops, IMHO


 
Posted : 25/03/2019 7:04 pm
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LibreOffice is your friend…

It's a chromebook, no need and no version available by the looks of it??


 
Posted : 25/03/2019 7:07 pm