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cahult:
How many "features" are there in Word? How many are really needed for daily work? I

Calum:
in my opinion you don't need anything over word97. Anything else is overkill, for a program that is really just a typewriter emulator!
plus, who knows how much extra spyware you get nowadays? It's best to stick with a version that M$ treats as obsolete, but which works just as well and outputs in the same .doc formats as later versions.
Actually it's best to use another office program instead but there y'go...

MxCl:
Whats with all this internet functionality? Does anyone use any of it? Is any of it actually useful?

I agree with you two, I use 97 coz I refuse to use software that is pointlessly huge and slow.

And the hypocrisy here is that I still use Windows...doh.

cahult:
The reason I

Calum:
Aha! the reason for a new version every couple of years is... MONEY! surprise! Microsoft are in it for the bucks!!!

Clarisworks, yes i remember it, it worked fine. Nothing has been added to these typemanagers since about 1994 that was actually needed.

No, I wouldn't use the "internet functionality" if you paid me! have you ever, par example, opened an html file using Word? go and try it... Ha Ha Ha! you either get a hideously distorted pile of crap, or even better, a total refusal to cooperate in the form of an error box implying it's your own fault (well of course it is, you should have known that word was a pile of catwallop to start with!)  :D  

I suppose it might be handy that .doc documents contain hyperlinks for webpage and mailto addresses, but after all, a lot of non-M$ programs can now read and edit those .doc files anyway...

i really wouldn't upgrade any of yr versions of office, the new versions i hear are worse, what with all the bloatware, and Office 2002's new 'phone it all home feature.

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