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Summary: It should have minus stars
Review: This entire new generation of Microsoft Office products is still in the sub-beta stage. Instead of MS screwups just causing a crash, lockup or freeze, they want you to go into a problem reporting mode. What nerve, charge for this [garbage] then force us to work for them STAY WITH Office 2000 for another year or two, until the bugs are worked out of all XP garbage. I have unloaded them all and gone back to Office 2000.
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Summary: It's Great!
Review: This new version of Word, is really no different from Word 2000, the major change is that the, hidden features are more pronounced in the interface, I like it a lot but I dont't really see the difference from 2000. If you are a user of Word 97, it would make a lot of sense to upgrade, now that user would see a whole lot differences when using Word. Certain features you might like such as speech recognition and send for review which I think won't be used. For users of Word 2000 I recommend you wait a year or two before you upgrade to this new version.
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Summary: what?!
Review: Who in their right mind would pay this much for a simple word processing program? Certainly not I.
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Summary: No one needs Word anymore, with OpenOffice.org & StarOffice
Review: Word is adequate, bloated, has a decent interface, and is ludicrously expensive. All in all, thumbs down. Word 2002 is just another edition of the same thing. I've used Word on and off since 1991, avoiding it whenever possible, and am so happy I don't have to use it anymore.Go to ... and download your office suite for free, or order StarOffice 6.0 here on Amazon. They both contain Writer, the Word equivalent that handles, and lets you create, Word files. (And programs that let you open and create Excel files and PowerPoint files.) Don't spend another penny on Word til you've tried OpenOffice.org or StarOffice.
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