[muglo] Re: MS word

on 10/2/02 16:08, Alex at admeddemda@xxxxxx wrote:

>> Ok, G4/400 OS 9.0.4, Word 98 (I hope... 6.0 is too old really for OS 9),
>> Quicken, and Netscrape.
>> 
>> Problem #2: Word
>> 
>> If you're running Word 6.0 -- it's pretty old software and not properly
>> supported in OS 9 anymore (does it even run?).
>> 
> 
> Hey, I run Word 5.1 on my OS 9.1 machine, and it runs smoothly, never
> ever crashes, and does a great job for what I need. I still think 5.1
> was the _best_ version of word ever! Small and stable and fast.

That's interesting to know! I'm not overly surprised that 5.1 does work on
OS 9 since it was a smaller and well-coded version of Word.

IMNSHO Word 4 was the best version ever released. It was small, ran on a
512, was _fast_ and had 95% of the features that I use on the newer
versions. Alas, it broke on System 8 (or was it one of the later 7.x
versions... can't remember).

> Only trouble I get is when I'm sent Word 6 or 98 files, sometimes
> they come out a bit garbled. Somewhere I have a copy of Word 6, that
> I guess I could install to handle those, but dont get too many. And
> I've always hated word 6.
> 5.1 was really the end of a good thing.

<chuckle> I actually liked Word 6 over 5 for most things except that it was
slower than 5. For me, Word 98 & 2001 are hands down the most polished word
processors I've used (on a faster computer).

As for opening Word 97/98/2000/2001/2002 files -- there's a converter for
Word 5/6 that allows one to read the newer Word format.
<http://microsoft.com/mac/download/office98/word_97982000_convert.asp>



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