Re: Trouble opening Word 5.x in Office X or Office 2004

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On 14/9/05 4:36 AM, in article
1126636606.917058.91470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Rich Blatchly"
<rblatchly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

> This still begs the question: if the information is in there, and
> if MS claims that word opens these files, why is it not working
> correctly from the beginning? As I mentioned, performance has
> deteriorated since Office X.

<snip>
> Rich Blatchly
>

Rich,

The main reason in your case is that Word 5.1 was the culmination of
Mac-only product development of Word. The Mac application was terminated and
another was ported from Windows for the highly unsuccessful Word 6, but
gradually improved thereafter. Some of us resisted "up"grading -- till Word
2001 in my case, later for many others.

I found the changes so profound that I started to record notes on the
differences and on features that were new to me, when I moved to Word 2001.
Four years later, having now moved to Word 2004, and having skipped Word X,
I'm still continually improving them. Despite growing in size (the page
extent is now about 170 pages) and covering significant changes in Word
2004, the underlying starting point is still migration from 5.1. So things
like the changes from glossary to AutoText and AutoCorrect, workarounds for
features that disappeared, and initial settings in Preferences to stop Word
doing more than you might want it to, are all covered -- albeit the
5.1-specific material is well in the minority.

The notes are titled "Bend Word to Your Will", and are available as a free
download from the Word MVPs' website
(http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm).

[Note: The document is designed to be used electronically and most subjects
are self-contained dictionary-style entries. Be sure to read the front end
so you can use the document to best advantage and select the right settings
for reading it.]

If you download a copy, after reading the front end, see what you get when
you do a "Find" command for "5.1".

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 7 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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