Rocky Smolin
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Mon Dec 31 15:57:56 CST 2012
How about Open Office for WP and spreadsheeting? R -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 11:25 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem Subject: [AccessD] Windows 8 Tablet and Access/Office 2010 I bought myself a new Samsung Tablet PC with Windows 8 and I'm sure glad I didn't upgrade my laptop! Once you get used to Win 8, it's not completely awful, but the desktop screams for a mouse and keyboard. The virtual keyboard works fine in the Metro UI, but it's very awkward in desktop and you still need a mouse unless you know a LOT of keyboard shortcuts that are less than easily memorized. I like the bluetooth mouse and keyboard options but I wrestled with the darn thing for a week before I bought those. It's painfully slow to download Office to the tablet and when I did, I discovered that even though the license allowed me to install on up to 3 devices, the tablet wouldn't accept the product key used for the computer! Microsoft help pointed at the computer OEM (not Samsung) and the OEM told me to call Microsoft. GRRrrrrrrrrr I finally bought a new copy of Access and downloaded and installed that. I'd still like to install Office on there (I think), at least Word and Excel, but I'm not sure the tablet is up to the load. Any suggestions or insight? I hate breaking new ground like this!! Charlotte -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com