|Yes, there are incompatibilities in the .DOC files
|when handled by different versions of Word.
|And they can corrupt the files and make them unreadable.
| dhm

What has come to be known as **a Microsoft "standard"**.  8-(


|For that, Gewg directed me to articles that showed that
|Open Office's Writer can read even damaged .DOC files.[...]
|So even if you are committed to M$ft
|it would be wise to have Open Office as well,
|even if you just use it as a utility to straighten out a M$ft incompatibility.

Given that "M$Office-compliant" is so poorly defined, after this development
cache 
of http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=06/11/08/1726205
+Visual-Basic-for-Applications
it's hard to imagine the set of circumstances
where someone would give Micros~1 money for an office suite
instead of getting a gratis 
and libre equivalent.


|It's a 100[MB] download but it's an incredibly impressive example...

Amen.

|...of freeware:

More than "freeware", as that term is commonly defined; it's "Free Software".
See "gratis and libre" (above).

|Download Open Office 2.20

Yup.

...and if you're bandwidth-challenged (or prefer to get your software on a disk),
there are places that will fill that need:
cache 
of http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/OOo/itemdetails.htm
cache 
of http://www.theopencd.org/

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