Star Benchmarking Microsoft Word From 95 To 2007
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 14:32 UTC, submitted by ahz1
Benchmarks Andrew Ziem takes a close look at Microsoft Word performance in a benchmark with 4500 measurements in 5 categories covering 6 versions and 12 years of releases to determine whether Word has become slower or faster over the years.
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RE: Office 97
by lemur2 on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 16:05 UTC in reply to "Office 97"
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Personally i think they perfected office apart from outlook in office 97. All the funcationaility was there, as was the polish.


Office 97 is very weak for long documents.

Office 97 has a strictly limited "style store". Once you explicitly format something, every time you make a change that new format gets stored in the file. There is apparently a list of these "explicit formats used" kept with the file that can only ever be added to ... removing stuff from your document does not remove the entries in that list. There is no way to reduce the size of this list in a given document ... as you add stuff, and change formatting, the list just grows and grows.

Once the list hits 65,000 entries, the document is permanently corrupted. No recovery is possible. Not even saving to another format and re-importing will recover the document.

You cannot use Office 97 for a longish document for which sections get replaced on a regular basis.

Even for a short document ... say a newsletter which you edit each week but leave certain bits in place ... Office 97 is guaranteed to eventually corrupt such a file beyond all repair.

Far from "perfected".

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