MSWord 2000

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

> It handles languages excellently,
> including proofing (if you have the relevant proofing tools installed). It
> does a very good job of converting from different file formats. If you
> really want to see Word 2000 working at its best with languages
> (particularly the more "obscure" ones) you should run it on Windows 2000, as
> that has the best language support of any Microsoft OS, but it still works
> very well with Windows 9x and NT.

That's right. The most conspicuous thing with MS Office2000(incl. Word)
is that it handles UNICODE much better -- there are no odd things any
longer if Russian and Japanese are mixed, etc. The coverage of file format
conversion has extented significantly -- I now have no difficulty saving
Russian files in KOI8-R coded text format, for example.

> There are always niggles, of course, but personally I wouldn't use anything
> else.

I use MS Word solely because some of my software force me to. I have
read through  a manual for it (the language is called VBA -- a kind of
Visual C langauge, but it's the same as the old BASIC from my point of
view), and wasn't persuaded to like it. I use TeX or QuarkXpress as they
are better documented and easy to understand. But that's my
idiosyncracy, you may like Microsoft products.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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