RE: officeXP vs office 2000
- From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:23:36 -0400
Fyi, you'll never need to pay hundreds of dollars for office xp as the
street price for office xp (small business edition) is only $99 (I
believe this does not include power point).
Someone else has already mentioned that office xp includes the OCR
feature you mentioned.
Hth,
Chip
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> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:48 PM
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> Subject: officeXP vs office 2000
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> actually i find word in xp preferable to word in office=20
> 2000, but thats about it, the rest for most of the other=20
> applications are the same except office 2000 power point=20
> definitely has an edge over power point in xp.
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> so if you want access to all the apts office 2000 seems the=20
> way to go, but if you use mainly only word i like office xp.
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> the jfw support for office xp word is excellent.
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> xp word has more goodies and a few are nice though many are=20
> not all that importan.
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> so bottomline if you have to pay hundreds of dollars to get=20
> it its not=20
> worth it for those minor improvements.
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> so save your self the money and just use office 2000.
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> if your starting out new and only use word then office xp is=20
> a good choice.
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> in fact i picked it for my new system.
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> office xp is also a good choice if you do not use power point.
> i really have very little need for power point.
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> realize I do not use mail merge at all so that may also be a=20
> factor in your=20
> decission.
> in a earlier message anna reported mail merge is harder in office xp.
> so if your buying new it may be a good reason for picking=20
> office 2000 if=20
> you use that feature a lot.
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> now a word on tutorials.
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> excelent tutorials exist on all the office applications for=20
> 2000 and also=20
> word xp.
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> my one disappointment is that both of the power point=20
> tutorials in my view=20
> come up short.
> here is why, hundreds of background template choices exist=20
> that appear=20
> differantly visually.
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> no attempt is maid to describe them, or to indicate which=20
> choice may be=20
> best in which situation.
> maybe they describe 2 of them out of hundreds.
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> if the authors had sought out several differant folks in=20
> differant fields=20
> to describe why they used the layouts they use and describe=20
> some of them it=20
> would be a big improvement.
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> so get a teacher and a m b A and maybe a few other folks and=20
> get feed back=20
> on them and add that kind of info to the tutorial.
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> bill
> ps I am also curious as to what office 2003 has and how good the jfw=20
> support is.
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> especially with respect to word.
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> the word in office 2003 actually has a feature worth while in=20
> the fact it=20
> adds o c r to the package.
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> i am also curious does word 2003 have special dictionaries for making=20
> corrections to spelling errors that occur due to o c r mistakes.
> such dictionaries are aimed at common mistakes that often=20
> occur during=20
> recconition stage and differ from standard spell checking programs.
> if this exist in word 2003 is it accessable by jfw and does it offer=20
> automatic correction.
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