RE: Spanish in Word 97

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From: Cindy M -WordMVP- (C.Meister-C_at_hispeed.ch)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:03:25 +0200

Hi Gary,

> Sounds to me like its time we step up to
> a newer MS Office version.
>
Note that I'm not a Microsoft employee, so that what I'm
going to say does not come from that angle, but from my
personal experience :-)

I highly recommend getting away from Office 97. With the
exception of Access, all the apps were less stable than in
earlier and later versions (due to moving to Unicode,
changing the graphics tools, changing to VBA, and a number
of other things).

On the whole, Office 2000 wasn't a bad product, and will be
most compatible with Word 97 files. It's no longer being
produced/sold "officially", however. And it also had some
oddities in the Word VBA (programming) interface. Access
people decidedly did NOT care for this version.

Between Office 2002 and Office 2003, I personally recommend
2003. It cleared up some problems with new things
introduced in 2002. Also, Powerpoint got quite a few new
things. And Outlook is without question much better than
earlier versions. From what I've heard from the Excel
people, it doesn't really matter too much. I think Access
people tend to prefer 2002 over 2003.

Things you may want to test in Word, if you (your company)
use them a lot, before you make the move: Mail merge, Track
changes, how well documents/templates containing numbering
"convert", ditto with tables.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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