Re: Document conversion

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Nathan Sivin wrote:

> Microsoft has always treaded a fine balance between disregard for
> users' individual preferences and concessions that will keep
> people (whoops, corporations) from giving up the product
> altogether. Despite the changes in file format, Word still reads
> RTF without needing to import it, and it incorporates most
> formatting. I can't speak for Word 2000, which was a giant leap
> forward in bloat. I have a copy of Office 2000, but I'm not
> willing to get rid of all that disk space for a few features I
> don't want.
>

Very likely a good move. You might be surprised at what a brisk trade
there is in OFC. '97 on Ebay. I purchased a sealed box that way for
someone else, leftover stock that a store was selling. There seems to
be a lot of testimony to the effect that that version had several
advantages (speed, particularly in loading; space & mem. resource
requirements; reliability) over its successor.


Jordan