Originally Posted By: larry818
I think Office '97 is their best effort. For example, it doesn't open a copy of word for every freakin' doc file you have open... For some reason, Excel has pretty much stayed good thru later versions, but Word just gets worse ans worse. You could probably pick that up for a song.

I keep Open Office installed so I can open .xlsx and .docx files, but OO has it's own issues, so I just use it to convert to the pre X file and use '97. It's surprising how seldom I run across the X file versions, as my clients send me stuff about weekly.


Yea, I'm not a big fan of any MS Office tools. Just simple things like searching for text in MS Word is awkward. Plus I’m spelling impaired and the suggestions MS Office comes up with are not anywhere near as close as what Google suggests.

I would use UltraEdit for everything if I had my way smile