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Re: MSOffice 4.2



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>MS Office 4.2 is too new to run.  The problem is that the latest
>releases of MS products (Word 6, Excel 5, etc.) require OLE to be
>running to work.  If OLE isn't running they fire up a sub-process to
>make it go, but we don't yet support sub-processes.
>
>Sorry, but Word 5 and Excel 4 run well.  I'm not sure that any
>versions of PowerPoint run nicely, we only have the version that's too
>new.
.snip.

Regarding running Word 6 vs. Word 5 under Executor, it's probably easier to
run Word 6 for Windows instead.  Word 6 for the Mac is more or less a direct
port of the windows version, right down to the opening screen graphic, and
takes a long while to load.  The windows version is much faster, and you
gain direct access to printing functions that you wouldn't have under
Executor.

This isn't to say that I *like* Word 6 - I consider it a great insult that
Microsoft dumped the Macintosh version and just ported Windows code instead.
 However, if you need it, you need it...

TC
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