Help! Bought Stedman's new Spellchecker and can't open ZIP files!
Posted By: mary on 2006-04-26
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I emailed Stedman's numerous times and their Tech email addy bounces back. I have called 3 times and left messages!! I work at home for my hospital and haven't gotten a Call from them. The new Spellchecker was downloaded and I should have bought the CD!! Because it was downloaded I can't get my money back!
Can anyone email me instructions on how to find these files (says I'm missing the exe file and won't run) and get it installed. I'm really getting disappointed in Stedman's. Their reference Books are great but customer service is the Pitts!!
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