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To: bgill

First things first, go to the library and check out a copy of Windows 10 for Dummies. I love the Dummy books because they write in words I can understand. You can buy it, but, if the library has it, why bother. It will show you how to get to search.

It’s a LOT easier than what folks have been telling you here.

Because you have Windows 10, you have to have a hotmail.com (or other microsoft email) account.

AS part of that service, you have access to Office Online.

Go to your hotmail account, click on the little matrix box in the top left hand corner and click on Word, Excel, or Powerpoint.

This does NOT give you the full blown Office, or, even the full blown version of these programs. BUT, it does let you do what you want to do, and you can save and print from there. And is is FREE. I do believe you will find it satisfactory.

As for Windows 10. I have been using computers since 1979. Started out with CP/M and have worked my way up through things to 10. It’s actually a very good DOS and is very easy to use. Just ignore the tiles and go straight to the desktop.

And you CAN do a search, but, first, you have to turn on Cortana. I ignore cortana, but, use the search feature there.

On the other hand, you could also use OneNote. OneNote lets you type up the list on your computer, and pull it into your smartphone.


91 posted on 12/28/2017 2:32:46 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian

Oh, that’s my soap box. The nearby library decided after years of mumble mumble decades of volunteering for them and making nice donations, they don’t want my patronage because I live across the county line. Never mind my property line is smack dab on the county line. Never mind the county line goes through the middle of the town and the library is a quarter mile from it. Never mind that that county’s folks can still use our county’s library if it’s closer for them. That new rule cuts it’s patrons waaaaay down.

May have to drive 40 miles to the other one. Thanks for the idea.


99 posted on 12/28/2017 4:51:36 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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