[Lonesome in Massachussets]

>> I've seen no need to upgrade from Word97,...

Are you mistaking Word 2003 for an upgrade? I still have Word 97 on my old family computer at home and Word 2003 at work and on my laptop. '97 works fine and if it ducks even one virus, that's gravy.

[Calvin Locke]

Yes, and I didn't explain myself very well.

I only keep Word 97 for envelopes, and the ease of word documents (pasted from Firefox) for d/l to my PDA.

Yes, I could use OO for saving into Word format, but it likes to go to the internet for embedded objects that Word 97
ignores, and since I generally block it, it has to time out, and then, it will sometimes crash.

If I really wanted linked objects...I'd save the damn stuff as a Web Page.

Most "upgrades" are usually bloatware.

Ah, for the days of Brief. I'd include Emacs, but Emacs wasn't exactly svelt.