..Brian realised with horror he would have to redo the
cleaning rota from scratch (click for larger version)
These
documents are in PDF format (Portable Document
Format). There are many non-proprietary PDF readers available
- pdfreaders.org has a list.
Acrobat Reader is free software that allows you to view, print, search and distribute PDF
documents.
You can get the latest
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LibreOffice.org is a free to download office suite. A plugin for MS Office is available which allows the reading of the Libreoffice.org spreadsheets (- the .ods files and other OpenDocument formats) - it can be downloaded here LibreOffice.org can open MS Office documents out-of-the-box!
And now the historical stuff..