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"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi H.K.,

Word HTML
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For Word 6, 7/95 and 97, the HTML was created by Word using an Add-in (started off as the 'Internet Assistant') and, as John
mentioned, basically exported simple HTML web page formats from your .doc file and you could produce a 'regular' (compact/small)
website with it.

Office 2000 changed how Word handled things both internally and externally. The feature for 'web documents' of 'round tripping' was
intended that the average user could create a web page without needing to know any html, as Word would put together a 'browser
feature limited' version of your Word document to display online but would keep with it all of the original content that only Word
could use so that the page could be reopened in Word and restored to a .doc file. The tradeoff (or drawback depending on your point
of view on web page creation g) was that you got quick and easy creation of a web page with more of Word's featurs at the expense
of small and fast HTML that helped to load websites quickly and in multiple browser versions. For corporate folks, often on
internal networks, the ability to save without learning often outweighed the 'but it's a big file' "problem".

The 'how to use Word to create personal web pages' site is still available, for now, (soon to be 3 versions old g) at
http://microsoft.com/Office/previous...fe/default.asp

There were a couple of nice features in the Word 97 version that were taken out and have sadly never come back since then, that made
working with Word to create 'public' web pages more useful.

Upgrades
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Microsoft still offers an upgrade package for Office and for Word 2003. http://microsoft.com/howtobuy .Over time MS has somewhat
continued to tighten up what qualifies as upgrades. Office 97 was the last version that accepted 'competing products' [brands] for
upgrades, for example, adding back MS Works 'any version' for Office 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158069/en-us?FR=1

As it did in Office 97 the upgrade is generally for 2 versions back of Office (Office 2000 (v9) and Office XP (v10)). For Office 97
(v8) it was Office 95(v7) and the individual (standalone) apps only from Office 4(93) [v5 was Mac only and they skipped over v6 for
marketing purposes g].

One package, MS Office 2003 Small Business Management Edition contains MS Office 2003 Professional edition (not Small Business
Edition) plus MS Office Small Business Accounting 2006 for only slightly more than the MS Office 2003 Professional Edition upgrade
and it's the only edition that will even allow 'cross grade' upgrades (i.e. it recognizes other Office 2003 products as upgrade
qualifiers).

The next new version of Office (2007) is due out at the first of next year (in retail stores).

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"HK" wrote in message ...
Hi John,

Thanks for the reply. Glad to hear 2003 is an improved htm product. The
only other question I might ask is: Why did Microsoft discontinue the
upgrade discount? But the full price is reasonable. So I'll stop
complaining.

Thanks again,
Howie
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends

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