Re: which Word? (was Re: 64 or 32 bit Win 7)

[Nicholas Clifford clifford@xxxxxxxx]

Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:
> Paul Lagasse wrote:
> > .... And I'm really only ever
> > forced to use Windows when someone must have a Word file submitted or
> > when I use Turbotax.
> >
> > Paul Lagasse
> >  
> this brings to mind a question: what flavor Word do people use? I just
> checked, and I am still on Word 97 -- which theoretically means I am
> missing something. or, am I? if someone receives a .doc file from me
> that I've edited in a 13-year-old version of Word, is there anything on
> the document that marks me as stingy, anachronistic reprobate?
> truly I am so stubborn and cheap I constantly have to fight the urge to
> simply use OpenOffice exclusively and save to Word 97 format. I would
> do just that, if I hadn't noticed problems -- not so much in documents
> I've created in OpenOffice, rather in things that have gone back and
> forth between Word 97 and OO -- font and bulleted-list oddities
>
> so, generally speaking, my preference is:
>
> 1) text in the e-mail, copied out of XyWrite
> 2) PDF if I don't expect it to be edited
> 3) Word 97, with an implicit pretense that many of my friends &
> associates don't have the latest version.
> do the latest versions of Word save in a genuinely
> universally-recognized XML format? does anyone know whether it is
> possible to use OpenOffice (which by the way last I looked is free for
> the Windows platform as well) to save in XML and for someone using Word
> 2010 or whatever it's called, be none the wiser?
>
> -rafe
I still keep a copy of Word 95 on my computer, partly because it goes
back and forth fairly easily with both Xy IV and Nota Bene, in both of
which I compose. In 2008 I bought a new computer which came with Word
2007 -- a truly frightening program, which I use only in the rare
instances when I have to compose something with pictures or such in it.
I have Open Office on my computer, but haven't used it enough to get any
sense of it.
I'm now in the market for a new laptop, hunting around for something
with Window XP so I can continue to use Xy 4 on a full screen.

Nicholas Clifford