On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:33:00PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:33:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > LIKE Word...but please NOT word! > > Let's not get hysterical. > > > I mean really...its a word processor...nice to have but...come on... > > they can't even keep it compatible with older versions of itself! > > What? Word 97 can read back to Word 2 and probably Word 1.1 for Windows, > as well as Word 5 for DOS etc. Word 97 can write Word 95 format too if > you get the service pack (95 writing support is a bit broken without it), > and Word 2 too I think.
ahh yes...but..most people don't know about that. Here at work we have Office95. We suuport Office95...people with Office97 are unsupported until we offciqally upgrade. Often someone comes across a file that they can not open because it is in the new format. > > and just think of all the benefits of having word... Word Macro Viruses, > > a completely asinine file format. > > Word warns you that the document contains macros before opening it and > gives you the option of removing them. Ahh does it? I think not. I have never seen it ask UNTIL I open scanprot.dot and let it install its Macros into normal.dot. and speaking of normal.dot...that is opne funky file anyway. I don't know how many times I have seen someone with Word problems...no virus found, but when I delete normal.dot (to force its re-creation) the problems go away. -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]