"Howard Neil" wrote in message
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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.

ITYM most word documents, but not all word documents.
Especially those where multiple users are making changes and those changes
are being tracked.
Unless OO is a lot better than it was.
Even the latest doesn't support VBA or embedded media correctly or even some
formatting and fonts.