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>X-From: Jim Boesen <james@gctel.com> >I have a question for the people of this listserv. Of those that work >with Microsoft products, what are the advantages and disadvantages of MS >Office 2000? I know that 2000 is suppose to be one step closer to linking Are you already using MS Office? If so, which version? I was a beta tester for MS Office 2000: ten days after I installed the beta version, I uninstalled it and *happily* returned to using MS Office 97, which I have been using for a year. There were several reasons for my unhappiness with 2000. I found it less user friendly than MS Office 97, and, since I have documents from three different versions of MS Word (6.0 for DOS, 6.0 for Windows, and Word 97(version 8.0)) and had clicked on convert format, I lost all my old documents as they were converted into gibberish. (Fortunately, I had backups on diskette!) >the user OS (referring to 95 and 98) to NT. I believe that there's >suppose to be about four or five different versions of 2000. Or at least >that's what an article that I read a number of months ago was saying. There are at least three versions, possibly five, if I remember correctly. It depends on your needs and wants which you should buy. >What kind of bugs are with 2000? I ask that only because I know there are bugs >that go with a new version of any software. I also ask that because I know that >one of the U of MN campus' is moving from Office 97 to Office 2000. I'd suggest waiting a year before adopting any new versions of MS software. It seems to take that long for MS to get its act together and go after the major bugs. Elizabeth Whitaker EDTECH has changed addresses. The new list address is EDTECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU. All subscription commands should be sent to LISTSERV@H-NET.MSU.EDU.
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