Re: [WinMac] Re: Office version terminology question
Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Tue, 01 Sep 1998 12:56:09 -0400
At 08:52 AM 9/1/98 -0000, jeff thorstad wrote:
>>The version before Office 97 was not for Win95. It will not be available
any
>>longer.. at least by regular retail avenues. Why would you want it? It
does
>>not make use of calls to the Win95 operating system. I like how you can
>>rename or delete files from the OpenFile dialog box of Win95 compliant apps.
>>Office 95 apps would not let you do this. You would have to do file
>>maintenance from the Explorer. Also, with Office 95 you would have to use
>>file names of the 8.3 format. In Office97 you have 256.3 that you can use.
>
>This was the problem with Office 95. It didn't upgrade enough to make it
>a real 32bit set of programs. The file naming WAS still 8.3, along with
>other mistakes. One of the stupidest things Microsoft ever did was
>"kinda" upgrading Office.
Uh, what? I use long filenames in Word & Excel 95 all the time.
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