google owns word

[araby]

okay. you all know I'm writing a manuscript.

I do not own my own computer, therefore I have been saving my doc in word, emailing it to myself and then opening it wherever I am to work on it some more. this is risky, as I've been locked out of my mail before, but that was after changing my pw..so I don't think it will happen again as long as I don't make any changes.

it's been working for me..but my roommate recently decided not to let me use her laptop anymore..so I had to find another one to use while I'm at home. the good Doctor I work for said I could borrow one of his laptops. yay!

but no...wait...crap. there isn't a program to open my doc. a licensed copy of word costs $100 or so...a trial version of word won't let me make changes and notepad saves in .txt which I can't open someplace else unless I copy/save to my email..and well..this really should be so much easier.

then into my life today came this link

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html

and my problems are solved forever. it saves while I type...and since I have a proofreader...we can read it together online, at the same time and make changes as needed. it is the most ingenious tool for writing and I am so excited now. I have 45,944 words I've been emailing myself over and over...and no more!! I just had to share.

maybe some of you would find it useful too!

[Martrae]

http://www.openoffice.org will do everything MS Office can for free.

[araby]

now you tell me

[Lionking]

Microsoft could have done the same thing Google did, years ago, but they couldn't figure out how to overcharge for it so they dropped the ball. In comes Google and Microsoft is screwed. It's a beautiful thing.

[Lyion]

www.openoffice.org will do everything MS Office can for free.

I moved from OO to Google tools. They are better, easier, my work is saved online, and easy to share and make secure.

Plus, given arabys situation, Word or OO would equally be useless for her.

[Kramer]

ok. that's badass....

thanks for the post, that is freaking awesome.

[araby]

I thought so too!! glad to help..