Download Free Version Of Microsoft Office Word.

[Khandro]

Can anyone recommend one please? I'm getting confused with "Free" and "Free to try" etc.
I have a 2007 version in German, but would like one in English as well. Thank you.

[Peter Pedant]

Chris BC's point a few months ago is that they were moving onto yearly charging....
so... free for a time
whereas your current one is free forever - BUT they may stop maintaining it

nothing free in the world - Henry Ford or something

[SlackAlice]

I wouldn't bother with MS Word, just use Open Office, which is free

https://www.openoffice.org/

Just make sure you 'Save As' .doc for compatibility issues

[jno]

I also use Open Office (having inadvertently deleted Word) and have no problems.

[Khandro]

Thanks. The reason which has brought this to a head is that I have a quantity of nouns in a jumbled order and I want to sort them alphabetically which is possible in later versions of Word.
I have libreoffice but can't figure out how to do it in that and the German Word is 2007 and too old. According to my information I need to highlight all the words, and use a symbol which is an A over a Z with an downward pointing arrow. Can that be done in Open Office do you know?

[aelmpvw]

quick anwser, yes

[aelmpvw]

or answer even

[Peter Pedant]

oh - if you have excel

convert to a text file
import into excel
go thro their import wizard on data ( csv and all that sort of thing ) it will ask you for the separator for the names
then use the excel sort in text A-> Z

voila ! ( god I really did learn something in the crippy AAT level 3 spreadsheet course whose exam I crashed out of)

did it with a frenz' record collection txt file
and even got title and singer and date in different columns

[Tuvok]

You can sort anything into order in any speadsheet.

[Old_Geezer]

That's nothing, I can do it by eye !

[Old_Geezer]

Plus fingers on the keyboard, of course.

[Khandro]

OG //That's nothing, I can do it by eye !//

That's exactly what I did in the end, no downloads, job done