>>>I have little to offer by way of praise for Word but am in the same boat as 95% plus - I have to use it!
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>>Well, is there another word processor which you would rather use, but which you don't, only for compatibility?
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>At this point I don't know any more.
>My preference was always Lotus WordPro (aka AmiPro) but that was so long ago. I've seen a couple of shops using WordPerfect.
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>cheers
I tried StarOffice, which at that time (version 5.1 and 5.2) was freeware. It seemed fairly decent; the major feature which I missed (compared to MS-Word) was the outline view, which didn't work correctly.
Oh, and for programming, I couldn't make Automation work. It seemed quite complicated, compared to MS-Office.
I haven't checked back on the most recent versions (i.e., OpenOffice).
In the spreadsheet part, it looked as if all of Excel's standard formulas were available, but add-ins were not (I was searching for complex number manipulation).
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