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The computer question is at the bottom so if you don't want to hear my rant on this book <font size=5><font color=red>I"M TRYING TO WRITE</font id=size5></font id=red> please scroll to he bottom.

This book is driving me friggin' nuts! I started the first chapter a few months ago and was doing pretty good THEN I pick-up Don Logans book and his first chapter is exactly what I had in mind! I've shelved chapter I for later and it will be shorter and more condenced than I had planed. <img src=newicons/madani.gif border=0 align=middle>

I've tried to write chapter II (post Desert Storm base realiments and closures) a few hundered times and every time I start I go to check my facts and either can't find what I'm looking for or, the info is not what I expected/thought was true.

Take today I was trying to find ther reason(s) Benkwaters/Woodbridge/Alconberry closed in past BRAC reports and can't find them anywhere. Was these bases closed under BRAC? I thought BRAC was the only system set-up for base closures!!
I guess what it comes to is I haven't done enough research or I need to go with more a feeling based book instead of a fact based book. Hell maybe I just don't have a book in me! <img src=newicons/tard.gif border=0 align=middle>

Now here's where the computer question comes in. Like a dumb-ass I saved a lot of my data in excel format and I don't have excel on my home computer. This was just something I was so used to having at work that I never thought about not having it at home! Now I can't get to 90% of my info! I tried to have word convert it but a BIG no-go on that. Q- is there a (free) program that will convert this info into another format? IF not can you (me) buy only excel without having to buy the whole office package...over $200 friggin' dollors!

Hehe sorry for the rant but I have so little to show for so much work!! <img src=newicons/anim_cussing.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/tard.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=newicons/anim_bow.gif border=0 align=middle>

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i can't write - thats why i design and paint

have a look here for your excel converter http://www.tucows.com/preview/350913.html $19.99

Dice, er I mean Hogpen13

Are you using windows XP? If so and it's a newer version I've found that I can open excell programs with Microsoft Spreedsheet. It dosen't do all the options that excel does but it may solve your problem.

Hope it helps and DON'T give up on the book.

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also if you have a yahoo email acct sent it to yourself and I believe that it will open it then you can copy it,,,also try this link at wwww.download.com http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html? ... ch=+Go%21+

it is a list of converters

HTH
JB

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Oh Hogpen, check the little title under your screen name.

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go tell the Lacedaemonians that here,
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YES Microsoft Spreadsheet works!! Thanks Hitler and all you other guys for the suggestions, at least I can get to my data now! <img src=newicons/bounce.gif border=0 align=middle> I will spend the next few days getting my info into a usable form and then start for 101th time! <img src=newicons/tard.gif border=0 align=middle>

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I can't help with the computer stuff but, WR and AR were shut down as a result of the downsizing of USAFE brought on by the coming down of the Berlin wall and end of the Cold War.
It was assumed that 6 squadrons of Hogs were no longer needed in Europe because there were no more hordes of Russkie tanks to massacre.
Not sure if it appeared in BRAC though.
The Bentwaters closure was perversly announced the day after a brand new housing complex and commissary was opened at the base.
Good luck with the book Hogpen 13.

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Hogpen, BRAC only considers CONUS bases, nothing overseas. Overseas bases are handled by treaty and status of forces agreements between the host country and the US.

Coach

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Oh Hogpen, check the little title under your screen name.

You cannot escape! <img src=newicons/saevil.gif border=0 align=middle>

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OK Sniper I see the mod under my name but no mod fuctions when I log-in... like always I'm just a figure-head with no real power! <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

Thanks everyone for your imputs, I spent the day going over my files, back to the book tomorrow.

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Hogpen...I found some more archival stuff. How can I get it to you?

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A10stree, if the files are not to large you can email them to me if they are to large I can email you my snail-mail addy.

email...

Hogpen13@aol.com

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Roger that Hogpen. Check your email.

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Got it and will reply as soon as I log-off this site.

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