Hello Roland,
On (25 Dec 97) cybercadet Roland Stiner wrote to Phil Heberer...
 RS>   >years worth of documents in a previous version. Only MS could be
 RS>   >arrogant enough to initially release a word processor that *wasn't*
 RS>   >backwards compatible! ;)
 RS> Wow, even Corel got that right when they released wp8.  I have no
 RS> problem opening my docs from wp6.1 dos.  I had configured wp8 with the
 RS> 6.1 keyboard and eliminated all the tool bars so that the
 RS> screen/work space looks exactly as it did under wp6.1 for dos.  Jeez,
 RS> I just love WP!
I hope you saw a reply I got from David Chessler, as I got it
backwards. It was write compatibility rather than read compatibility
that had a problem at first. It's now fixed via patch or updated
Service Releases.
*I* also like the easy customization of WP to suit MY needs rather than
what a software company thinks you might like. I also have a need to
make up training booklets that are printed both sides of a sub-divided
page. If anyone knows how to do that in Word97, I'd appreciate a
private netmail on how it's done. None of the secretaries who are
supposed to be 'expert' with Word have figured it out yet, which is
also one of the reasons I was able to convince my boss to stay with WP
vs Word for a while longer. 
Cheers,
Phil
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