G'day "Chip Orange" ,

2002 = unstable, new buggy features, shocking new style model etc

2003 contains auto-open magic to fix many issues we have with log
documents, especially resolving the plethora of unused list templates
that we arent allowed to delete.

Additionally, in 2003 you can force the user to use the provided
styles and no manual formatting, which for long docs is especially
useful in keeping 'corruption' and confusion levels down.

Last, Save As XML - a joyous way to keep master document corruption
down to a minimum.


Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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Without prejudice


Chip Orange reckoned:

Steve,

Could you elaborate on why you urge strongly to upgrade to Word 2003 for
large documents? We're still using 2002, and simply haven't upgraded
because we were under the impression it didn't have any significant new
features or bug fixes that we were interested in (and were a bit worried
that something would break somewhere! ).

Thanks.

Chip