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Vendome wrote:
“LOL!

well, the file is only 25 meg. It won’t impact your usage.

Unless you don’t have a data plan.

Would you want to use Office Pro on a tablet, Nook or your phone?

If it’s just for your phone, it’s only practical for occasional manipulation of files.

If you need it to create files, then you would need at least a tablet.

I downloaded it to my phone and my Nook.

I need it for occassions when I don’t feel like running my laptop.”

Electronic reading machines, like ‘the nook’, will never replace either hardbound, softbound, trade paperback books, or comic books, wrongly called ‘graphic novels’, just thicker.

Since the onset of electronic keyboardless devices, also known as ‘tablets’, (again a throwback to a yellow pad of paper), there sure has arisen an aftermarket flood of “tablet compatible kepboards”! Wonder why?

I started using laptop computers, not for their portability, but because it took less physical space in my work den. You see, I still view a laptop, as “an upgrade” from my original ‘reporter’s portable typewriter’ - no AC plug needed.

I have been around these electronic computational machines, since the days of the Univac 1050-II. I have worked around, and programmed similar machines made by HP, when a 1 gigabyte hard metallic removable packwas used, or the D.E.C. PDP-11, which had what resembled those hard-cased carriers of 45 rpm single LP’s with the handle on top, but instead had several smaller hard discs inside, with the motors and arm mechanisms, internally.

I have no need for word-processing programs, other than my RTF-generating ‘Rough Draft’. I can send those awaiting my little manuscripts, those said files in that form, and all is well.

After re-writing foreign ISO standards for American aerospace industries, who for over 40 years, WERE THE STANDARDS, and re-writing military standards to ISO standards; writing and getting published, when there were more houses to send to - than today; attempting to teach dullard nitwits who were passed grade to grade through LSU - and could not tell me what they did for a job in five sentences, I have been successfully retired for some time now.

I have always ‘kept my own books’ in pen and ink, so no ‘Access’ needed there.

I have a collegiate Webster’s, and a collegiate Roget’s on the shelf, as well as that 35 pound Oxford publication, if I should doubt a word. No need for either Word, WordPerfect, or any subset, thereof.

In other words, “I’m good, thank you.”