Re: Word 98 on MacOS 10.4

I would second what Paul says:

There are two things missing from Word 98 that will hurt you a lot --
Unicode and nested tables.

Unicode is more serious. Word 98 cannot handle the double-byte Unicode
character set. OS 10.4 makes heavy use of it. So you will get all sorts of
Font/Character transposition problems.

HTML-style nested tables were introduced with Word 2001 and modern versions
of Word produce them automatically. Word 98 will degrade any such documents
it edits.

As Paul says, Word 98 is a bridge too far: you would be best advised to
upgrade if it's at all possible.

Cheers

On 22/11/05 4:00 PM, in article BFA7E5F4.B953D%berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/21/05 3:15 PM, in article BFA7BF5C.B162%onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
> "CyberTaz" <onlygeneraltaz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Short answer - no. Word 98 is not OS X compatible.
>>
>> Longer version - AFAIK it can run in Classic mode
>
> That means it _is_ compatible. AFAIK, all versions from 98 onwards are meant
> to be compatible in OS X, caveat Classic. (Word 5 is not compatible, by
> contrast.) But people have claimed there are problems. You'd be far better
> off upgrading to Office 2004 before the day they stop allowing an upgrade
> price from 98.

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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

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