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Subject:Re: MS Office 97 Update From:Stephen Forrest <techwriter -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Sun, 14 Sep 1997 15:35:15 GMT
At 09:32 PM 9/13/97 +0000, Ralph E. Robinson wrote:
>I have read with interest, although I don't use MS Office 97, the
>problems that people are having with this package. The following
>information came my way and I thought all Office 97 users would
>welcome getting it, so here goes.
>
>IMPORTANT: IF YOUR OFFICE 97 IS OEM, YOU'RE SOL (temporarily).
>Microsoft expects the OEMs to supply it themselves, but has not yet
>made any provisions to get them an OEM Distribution copy!
>
>HOW TO GET THE ENTERPRISE UPDATE
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This information is buried on the MS web site.
<snipped a lot of useful information on getting a fix for Word97>
I recently got a new computer, and, because of all the problems reported on
this list, I had my computer pusher find me a copy of Office Pro 95. I've
been very happy with it. I recently had a chance to use Word 97 for the
first time, on a client's machine. I was particularly impressed by the
tendency to spontaneously reassign paragraph styles to amusing things like
"Endnote." (I noticed this because I keep the Style Area displayed at the
left side of the document space. Anybody else find that indispensible?) This
seemed to happen after I enabled Revision Tracking, and continued (somewhat
less) after I turned it off. I also found that, if I tried to select a block
of text that extended off screen, I had to hold the shift key and use the
down arrow, because if I used the mouse and went to the bottom of the screen
as I usually do, the screen scrolled so quickly that I selected about three
pages in the blink of an eye. That never happened before.
The more I learn about Unix (I'm installing Linux on the new pooter) the
less I like Windows and all of its applications. Did you know Unix/Linux is
apparently immune to viruses?
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