Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft Word 5.1: The Apex of Word Processing
angkor writes "'Word 5.1 is 13 years old in 2004. Many people still swear by it. Powerful features, stable application, without bloat. Nirvana by Microsoft. It's been all downhill from there...' I always thought WordPerfect 5.1 was pretty good as well. I still use it alongside my OfficeXP."
or at...
Odd how people swear by Word 5.1, when all I seem to manage with Word XP is to swear at it.
I gave up on word the day I clicked on a menu and an hourglass appeared. :(
MS Word jumped from like 2.0 to 5.1 to "catch up" with Wordperfect.
It's been all downhill from sed if you ask me.
"Microsoft Office 2003 Professional, Where do you want to go today?"
As a casual user, I simply cannot live without the ability to insert MediaPlayer G2 controls into my correspondence... therefore 5.1 will not work for me.
-m
#
# Modus Ponens
#
Word 5.1 did not have clippy... the most important thing which was ever integrated into a word processor.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!!!!!!
Gator eWallet version 5.1 was the pinnacle of scumware.
-m
#
# Modus Ponens
#
We had wordperfect 5.1 installed in all of the computer labs that I worked in back at university. If you took the floppy out of the drive, it was toast and virtually unrecoverable. Everyday, at least one person would complain about losing their paper or some such. Many a session was spent in complete fear, rivulets of sweat dripping from my face, as one of the rather large football players stood angrily over my shoulder waiting for me to retrieve their data.
...Well not the football players... you know, the people I could take (english majors mostly).
It got to the point where I'd ask them if they'd taken the disk out of the drive. They'd say "yep" and I'd say "Yeah... Don't do that".
So, not fondly remembered.
-k
and menus responded with vigor
Vigor? Word 5.1 had Clippy already? That's impressive! (Screenshot / Home page)
Being a horible speler I love that with osx it spell checks your online form enteries. I used to rite them up in a word procesor frist so I could sple check. Now I just hit [apple][shift}[;] It works great!
Yeah, if you can make Word 5.1 (which is a Mac-only product) run on Windows, I'll give you more than just mod points...
Geek 1: EMACS!
Geek 2: VI!
Geek 1: EMACS!
Geek 2: VI!
Geek 3: Oohh Word 5.1!
*Geek 1 and Geek 2 give the look of death to Geek 3. Large heavy objects suddenly get propelled at Geek 3.*
Geek 1: EMACS!
Geek 2: VI!
Geek 3: Vi'macs.... *WHUMP as he passes out from a concusion*
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
it does refuse to do what I tell it sometimes
Ask Clippy. Nicely.
there's no place like ~
I agree, why does MS think I want a separate window, bar, or pop up for every action performed on a document. I have spent more time with Office XP hacking the registry and customizing toolbar buttons to avoid their suppossed intelligent features.
Next their going to introduce different degrees of italics and bold.
You have selected bold. How bold would you like it today? Please adjust the thickness, shade and sharpness sliders below
For Christ sakes just give me a solid word processor with out the needless tweaks.
What's a matrixed channel?
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrixed channel is. You have to hear it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...
I saw that shot more than a few times back when Starbuck was a man. ~ lucabrasi999
No self-respecting geeks admits they use anything other than vi.
It ran like a champ on my 33mhz PowerBook 190.
Now, someone remind me what the system requirements are for the current versions of Office and Open Office?
Your statement is so unbelievably painful to parse and even look at that it could only have been written by Clippy.
Even if Word were the best program around for text editing, I'd still refuse to go near it if I saw Clippy smiling at me. I have nightmares about that damn thing trying to help me. Make it stop! Make it stop!
looks like you managed to disable the spell-checker too.. ;)