you can always just save the pdf file to your pc then open it with xchange.

you can get open office free OpenOffice the conversions can be achieved in OpenOffice 3 - there is an extension that you can download http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport which allows you to open pdfs directly and edit them, and with OO you can save the file to any format (odf, doc, pdf, wpd, etc) http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport a stand alone download doPDF7.1 free PDF converter Free PDF to Word Doc Converter as for online converters I use zamzar Zamzar.com - Free online file conversion Koolwire is another online free converter Here is a link that might be useful: koolwire

Kitchendetective, it's not like we started out with a real sentence in the first place. "Flowers sitting in a pot under the sun loves to bloom." Would have actually made sense if it said: Flowers sitting in a pot under the sun love to bloom. Since the only rule is to change one word, I'd think there's no reason you couldn't just make a word salad, and have nonsense like: Mary hosing out the boy under the influence wanting to play, or Mary taking out the boy under the influence wanting to dribble. Anyway, my next submission is: Mary taking out the boy under my influence wanting to play.

It may be too late to do anything about the year old glasses, but before you give up, contact your state consumer affairs board AND the board in your state that licenses opticians (assuming your state does, not all states have that requirement) and see if you have any recourse. As to getting reliable cheap glasses? DD is an optician. She's worked in a dept. store, in a discount chain and now works in a dr's office. There's a WORLD of difference in the quality, according to her. You DO get what you pay for. Discount chains use very inexpensive (read easily broken) frames, many use lenses that are manufactured in 3rd world countries that are of questionable quality at best and often the workmanship is also sub-par. However, I do have a suggestion for you. IF your state licenses opticians, find out where they train (a community college, perhaps) and see if they have a dispensary. I always got to the college for my glasses. Where I go, they sell high end frames, brand name lenses--at cost! The point of the dispensary is to give the students practice writing up orders and fitting the glasses when they're done. The professor checks everything and makes the glasses up herself. Last go-round? I got a pair of progressive regular glasses with the highest priced glare coating, a pair of progressive sunglasses, my husband got a pair of progressives and our bill was $450. Oh, they all were designer frames (not that I care, but they were). DD said my 'regular' glasses, in her shop, with the family discount would have cost $800 alone! Often, too, colleges have the very latest in lab equipment, because the manufacturers donate those gizmos for free, so that the students will 'learn to love them' so to speak.