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md2lgyk:
Couldn't agree more!  I have to use M$ Word 2000 at work, and spent the first two days I had it disabling all the automatic crap.  Actually, for home use, I'd recommend PCSuite 2001 http://www.software602.com.  It's Office compatible, has a lot fewer "extras" and it's free.

Calum:
i have that one installed too, it is a good Word substitute, as it has a dictionary. (no matter what i do, i can't get my Word spellchecker to work!  :mad:  )
People were saying elsewhere that Star Office is an even better alternative.
Here's a FAQ and Tips page about StarOffice to get you started. I have only used it for about 10 minutes but it looks like it has tons more features than 602Pro and is many times smaller too.

voidmain:
Just make sure you *don't* get StartOffice 5.2, if anything get 6.0 (which isn't out just yet but the beta was far superior to 5.2).  The problem with StarOffice is with 6.0 they aren't going to provide a free version (except to Solaris Users).  Now "OpenOffice" is basically the same thing as StarOffice 6.0, just without the commercial support and a couple of other minor proprietary pieces missing, and it *is* free and open source and available for Windows and Linux and *NIX.  See http://www.openoffice.org

[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Anti Ms:
KILL THE SODDING PAPERCLIP

"It looks like your writing a letter"
"What do you want me to do?"

"Kill myself"
"Delte all M$ Programes from your PC"
"create a GPF for you randomly"
"or make a blue screen"

psyjax:
I find AppleWorks on the Mac to be a smaller cheepr alternative. Dose everything Word does, even saves in word format all the way to 2001 and is only some 20MB. Never liked Word, have been an AppleWorks ClarisWorks fan since the getgo.

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