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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:52:28 -0400, while chained to a desk in
the scriptorium, bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info ("Bonnie Granat")
wrote:
> $I cannot figure out why messages are not quotable....I gotta find that little
> $program I heard about.... anyway, back to the topic. I use Word 97 in my work,
> $but at only $109 to upgrade to Word 2003, I am tempted. But, and this is the
> $reason I won't be doing so, I can find nothing on Microsoft's site that tells
> $me what I'd find improved from Word 97 to 2003. I have heard only negative
> $things about the changes in Track Changes, but I don't know if other
> $improvements in how Word works might outweigh the Track Changes changes. <heh>
> $
> $I'm not motivated to dig for comparisons, but if anyone here knows of any
> $reason someone would want 2003 over 97, I'm all ears.
Bonnie,
I jumped to Office XP from Office 2000, and with Word I didn't
see a lot of difference.
Office XP running on Windows XP does have some voice recognition
support, though for stuff like that I do prefer Dragon Naturally
Speaking.
The dictionary has a more extensive selection of varieties of
English than earlier versions.
I think it may have better support for foreign languages,
particularly Asian languages like Japanese and Chinese.
Otherwise, I didn't see much new.
Fop me, the primary benefit has been the availability of a
Canadian English dictionary.
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