Where should I stick it?

[gon2seed]

Serious answers please. I am relying in the forumites superior knowledge, as I am technologically bereft!
Have purchased a new lap top, and am currently compiling the tale of my accident and subsequent recovery (Again! Ed ). During the last 6 years I have been helped by reading the accounts of other recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Richard Hammond, James Cracknell, et al. I hope my account may be useful to other TBI survivors. What is the most cost effective way to get Microsoft Office? & how should I get my Story out there, where to STICK IT , web site? Blog, other? Not wanting to spend much on this. Question 2, most cost effective way of obtaining Microsoft Office? Am currently borrowing Venerable Mrs Seeds lap top, and using Word to write, so would need to down load it on to mine! Any answers very gratefully received! TY

 

[John Marwood]

Just be aware that as much as you wish to share your personal story today there maybe a time when you would like it to be no longer on view

There should be a link at the bottom of this panel which, at present, indicates the sites - blogs etc which are 'impossible' to delete

When completed you may wish to consider sending your story to local and specialised printed media

 

[John Marwood]

I realise the link is only visible to members so .. http://justdelete.me/

 

[tek-monkey]

Word is expensive, but there is a free online version linked to your hotmail account (if you have one).

Go to outlook.com
Click the down arrow next to the words outlook.com in the top left
Choose word online

 

[cometcycle]

Word is expensive, but there is a free online version linked to your hotmail account (if you have one).

Go to outlook.com
Click the down arrow next to the words outlook.com in the top left
Choose word online

You beat me to it!

If you need something local on a machine, does it have to be Microsoft Word? Free alternatives include LibreOffice / OpenOffice and in the case of Word would be largely compatible.

As for where to stick it? With either a blog or website it could be hard for people to find unless its whereabouts is shared widely via social media or perhaps as a link on an established site/charity that deals with that sort of injury.
I guess another method that might be worth investigating is e-publishing - I was listening to The Pod Delusion yesterday and it featured an interview with Andy Weir who serialised a book free on his website but it snowballed to kindle and now paper versions.

 

[Ecker]

Having produced your opus, you might like to consider where to go from there.

Adobe Acrobat (PDF Format) is now very much the industry standard for printed
articles / books. It is also very useful when publishing online in that the resultant
file can be optimised for web delivery; meaning: that once the first page has been
download, it appears immediately and the rest downloads as a reader is looking at
the first page i.e. a reader does not have to wait for the whole file to download.

There is free software available to convert word files to pdf format but it will not
optimise the result for web delivery.

If you decide to take this route, I would be only too happy to optimise the pdf file
for you and possibly insert bookmarks. Bookmarks take readers directly to a section or
sub section of the document meaning: they don't have to keep on scrolling up and
down.

Whatever you do, it sounds like a mighty fine plan to me.

 

[Noah]

Libre Office - http://www.libreoffice.org/ - is free, does everything that Microsoft Office can, and as well as using its native Open Document Format can open documents and save in Microsoft Office format (.doc, .docx etc). It can also save documents as PDFs.

 

[Ecker]

Libre Office - http://www.libreoffice.org/ - is free, does everything that Microsoft Office can, and as well as using its native Open Document Format can open documents and save in Microsoft Office format (.doc, .docx etc). It can also save documents as PDFs.

There you go Gon2, email the pdf to me, I'll optimise it for you, add bookmarks and send it back.

 

[gon2seed]

There you go Gon2, email the pdf to me, I'll optimise it for you, add bookmarks and send it back.

I probably explained I am seriously 'challenged' as far as technology goes, would I just email it in word doc, would that constitute as being in a pdf ? Told you I am hopeless! Soz! If it is, it will take me some time I am still working on it. But fantastic of you to offer t0 help!

 

[Ecker]

I probably explained I am seriously 'challenged' as far as technology goes, would I just email it in word doc, would that constitute as being in a pdf ? Told you I am hopeless! Soz! If it is, it will take me some time I am still working on it. But fantastic of you to offer t0 help!

Hello again Gon2.

There is a free (open source) piece of software call LibreOffice available at:

http://www.libreoffice.org/

Which does pretty much what Microsoft Word does and will allow you to
save a document in pdf format...Warning: It is a BIG download!!