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On Jan 14, 12:39 pm, HK wrote:
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:30:07 -0500, John H.
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Mrs H got an almost free MS Office Enterprise 2007 from her job. We've
not
had any problems with Office 2000. Running XP.
Would you install or not install?
It's been a few days since I looked at this thread but I certainly
won't be installing this. I'm not ready to take my vows
I have the "full" MS Office 2007, which I installed on my desktop. I
uninstalled it and went back to Office 2003. I did not like the
interface in the 2007 version, and I could not see any "improvements"
that made a difference for me.
These big office suites are really bloatware. I rarely use anything in
2003 except Excel. For WP, I use Wordperfect. It's a little "lighter"
than WORD, and for me it seems faster, too. There's no problem saving
files in any file format others might need.
How fast does a word processor need to be? It spends 99% of its
existence waiting for humans to type of press a button. What does
Wordperfect do faster?
I'm not asking because I dislike Wordperfect. But, if I already had one
word processor installed, I wouldn't bother installing another unless the
first one was screwed up in a major way.
Fewer commands, fewer options, easier and faster to set up and use or not
use "defaults," a lot less of doing it Microsoft's way or no way at all.
It's a feeling, as I stated, that it seems faster to me. I find WORD
clunky, obtuse, and overstuffed.
Fewer commands? You don't have to use commands that you don't need. And,
does your version of Word have the "Hide less-used commands on menus"
feature? If you don't use them, you don't see them, at least the more
obscure commands.
There's a lot less drill down in Word Perfect. Let's just say it is more
a word processor for writers than it is for those in huge organizations
who "process" documents. It is also a hell of a lot easier to customize
and to automate functions, those within the program and new ones, via
macros.

I started with WordStar for DOS in the 1980s, dumped that for
Volkswriter, dumped that for Xywrite for DOS, learned WordPerfect 4.1,
moved to Xywrite for Windows, didn't like that, picked up WORD, hated it
and still don't like it much, and moved onto Wordperfect for Windows
while the programmers were still in Orem, Utah. Then Corel bought it
out, it went downhill for a while, but in the last year or two, has
gotten better.

I have dozens and dozens of macros in WP that I use professionally.
Doing the same sorts of things in WORD is either impossible, or very
cumbersome.

Here you go...this will help:

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If you need help with Word macros, let me know. I use them every day
without any trouble!

No thanks.