"Bill in Co" surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote

| This is why I recommended you grab a copy of the older version of Kingston
| Office, which is instantaneous upon start up, unlike OO and LibreOffice
and
| all the rest, and is only 50 MB And no registration is required.
|

Yes, but where. I found v. 2013. I unpacked the installer.
It says it's spyware. From 2016 it's adware. I found
2012. I wasn't able to unpack it entirely, but an ini file
for setup had this:

PopPay14Days=1

It's not clear which version is actually free, honest
software. I'm guessing I'd want the version from
before it was sold to the Chinese? I'm not going to
just keep trying out whatever installers turn up.