Hi all,
Responding to Bill's great comments:
1. as far as office is concerned, if all your files are .docx, .txt, or, 
.rtf files, Word Pad will read and let you edit those files, and you 
won't need office.
It will also let you paste in text from web pages, and, it will let you 
paste in text found in .pdf files as well!
2. Windows 7 will be updated till January 1, 2020, so people have time 
to stick with 7 for now.
Harry
On 7/27/2016 6:50 PM, Bill Pasco wrote:
> All that has been said is true, but is incomplete.
>
> One reason some are hesitant to update is they have older JAWS 
> versions. To bring JAWS up to the newest is expensive and prohibitive 
> for some folks.
>
> Yes, I know NVDA can be used, but that is a learning curve if you have 
> not used it in the past.
>
> If you are right and one cannot still use Office 10, then the expense 
> to upgrade is again prohibitive fore some. I need to check on that 
> one, not sure.
>
> Not everyone is a geek like those of us on this list. The learning and 
> upgrading and driver fixes etc. are daunting for some people who only 
> know how to turn the computer on, and read email. There are more of 
> those folks than you think.
>
> If one uses Windows 8.1 updating should not be too bad as 10 looks 
> similar. From 7 though is a bit more of a change.
>
> Finally, some people are saying "what I have works, so why make life 
> difficult?" This is not a long term solution, but if you have an aging 
> laptop, you'll probably replace it before support for Windows 7 or 8.1 
> expires.
>
> Bill
>
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