John Rumm wrote:
Bill wrote:

What on earth in these days of Open Office do you want Works for?

One good thing you can say for it, is it is a cheap way of getting a
full version of MS Word on a new machine. So if you must have word on a
new machine (say for compatibility with other software that used office
automation with word for producing printed matter), an OEM version of
Works suite is about £28 trade and that comes with a full version of
Word 2003, which is usually good enough.


Compatibility of Open Office and Word is not an issue. You can set up
Open Office to automatically open and convert any Word document and to
automatically save all output in Word format. I know of one local
council that does just that. They interact regularly with offices and
companies that use only Word and nobody is aware that this council is
saving the public a lot of money.

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Howard Neil