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To: nnillionaire who wrote (24965)1/25/2002 6:17:20 PM
From: Original Mad Dog  Read Replies (1) of 110653
 
MS Works sucks wind.

Get the best MS Office suite you can afford (or use your old one) and just ignore the fact that Works is even on the computer.

Speaking from experience, you won't need to uninstall Works to use the Office suite. However, at some point in there Office stopped shipping product that could be freely transferred from machine to machine. (The software license always prohibited that, but at some point, 1999 maybe?, they started shipping Office with a protection code that didn't allow you to install it and use it more than 50 times before registering it with its serial number.)

Another possible problem is getting it to work with ME, since ME came well after Office 97. I don't know whether that causes problems or not.

Good luck.

P.S. You can save some Office files in a Works-compatible format by saving the file differently in Office. However, Works is so bad that I usually recommend trying something else first.
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