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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
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.

33 posted on 12/06/2006 11:00:23 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
Ah, for the days of Brief.

Underware made the -best- -editor- -ever-!

There are things I could do with Brief macros in 5 minutes, that I still can't do without spending a hell of a lot of time and effort to do in any editor around today. Best of all, a zipped copy would fit on a floppy. It was a part of my emergency toolkit back in the day.

41 posted on 12/06/2006 6:54:41 PM PST by zeugma (I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place. (http://www.zprc.org/))
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