opening email attachments on emac computer

[coleen]

yes, I am really, really dumb!  Still haven't figured it out. I downloaded an open office version and it comes up in arabic or something! Would Apple iWork do the trick? and how do I uninstall the arabic open office?

[socrates]

iWork will do the trick.

You probably just downloaded the arabic version of open office.  If you just drag open office from your applications folder to the trash, it'll delete.

[coleen]

ok, I think I got the right version of open office, now its telling me i can't open it because the X11 software isn't installed. I don't have the disk that came with the computer as I bought it used. I have firefox and I found an add on called OutWit Docs. would this be something I'd want to try?  Sorry to be such a pain

[socrates]

Coleen,

You would need your original install disc for X11, so openoffice is out.

I haven't heard of outwit docs, but if you have a gmail account (which is free) you can use google docs to read, edit, and print the spreadsheet.

[coleen]

THANK YOU!!!  I created a gmail account, went to the site that had the documents, sent the documents as an email attachment to the gmail account and was able to open them as html.. IT WORKED...yay!!!   

[socrates]

Awesome!  Glad to hear you got it working.

Thanks for following up as well and letting us know it worked.