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From: Stephen on 7 May 2010 19:24
I though I had made a cool discovery in my piles of old junk.

I found a boxed set of "Microsoft Office 4.2 for the Macintosh", with
manuals a pile of 3.5 inch floppies. Guess what? All floppies are
there except disk 1!!!! Arrrgh! What a shame, I though for sure
someone would like to have that!

Oh! Well!

Back to more rummaging!
From: James Jolley on 7 May 2010 20:15
On 2010-05-08 00:24:14 +0100, Stephen <srmoll(a)gmail.com> said:

> I though I had made a cool discovery in my piles of old junk.
>
> I found a boxed set of "Microsoft Office 4.2 for the Macintosh", with
> manuals a pile of 3.5 inch floppies. Guess what? All floppies are
> there except disk 1!!!! Arrrgh! What a shame, I though for sure
> someone would like to have that!
>
> Oh! Well!
>
> Back to more rummaging!

That's just sods law in action. Perhaps it's a blessing that disk 1
isn't there, knowing how things turn out, it was probably corrupted
anyway.

From: Ian McCall on 8 May 2010 02:44
On 2010-05-08 00:24:14 +0100, Stephen <srmoll(a)gmail.com> said:

> I though I had made a cool discovery in my piles of old junk.
>
> I found a boxed set of "Microsoft Office 4.2 for the Macintosh", with
> manuals a pile of 3.5 inch floppies.

Still my favourite version. 5.0 had a few useful extras, but felt
bloated on my LC. 4.2 ran nicely and did pretty much everything I
wanted - I only missed envelope printing.


Cheers,
Ian

From: Woody on 8 May 2010 06:46
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

> On 2010-05-08 00:24:14 +0100, Stephen <srmoll(a)gmail.com> said:
>
> > I though I had made a cool discovery in my piles of old junk.
> >
> > I found a boxed set of "Microsoft Office 4.2 for the Macintosh", with
> > manuals a pile of 3.5 inch floppies.
>
> Still my favourite version. 5.0 had a few useful extras, but felt
> bloated on my LC. 4.2 ran nicely and did pretty much everything I
> wanted - I only missed envelope printing.

I think the pinacle of it was 5.1, as that had little wiggly red
underlines under spelling mistakes. That was the last inovation in
office.


--
Woody

www.alienrat.com
From: Peter Ceresole on 8 May 2010 07:14
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> I think the pinacle of it was 5.1, as that had little wiggly red
> underlines under spelling mistakes. That was the last inovation in
> office.

Yes, I agree.

Nowadays, for the effective useability of Word 5.1, I'd go for TextEdit
or, if wanting more bells and whistles, Pages, which I have anyway
because Anne needs Keynote to prepare ppds for her slide lectures.

But I held on to Word 5.1 for years. The only thing that was actually
much better was WordPerfect 3.5. Wonderful. I happily paid for that and
used it for years. But Corel fucked up the Windows version, which was
unbelievably awful, so it died.
--
Peter
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