Hi Guys

You know the trouble I find with a programme like MS Word is that there are too many versions in circulation and, in the latest versions, there are too many irrelevant features.

Now I must admit, even before I joined this forum, I still used Word 97, simply because it gives me what I want while working in a home environment.

However, I might think slightly differently if I was still in work but the simple truth is that most people only use the few regular facilities they have always used, no matter what the version on offer. In fact, I have only ever seen one office that networked Word (XP/2002) so that members of that office could collaborate on documents.

Other than that, all the extra (new and exciting) facilities MS cram into Word only serves to slow it down and force companies to buy more powerful PCs with faster CPUs and more HD space.

Finally, in all my years of using MS Word 97 there are only two non-native facilities I have added that my requirements have grown to encompass, they are:

1) The ability to save or convert my Word documents to PDF documents.

2) Very occasionally, save or convert received PDF documents into Word documents.

For 1), I use a free utility called "Cute PDF", and for 2) I use a very cheap utility called "PDF to Word".

Apart from that, I have no reason (that I can see) to debilitate my PC by getting another (more up to date) version of Word crammed with facilities that I will never ever use.


UK Bob