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Iword new version5/27/2023 I have thousands of files including tables in both Word and Excel, produced newsletters, phone directories, some graphics done in Word and have an Excel file with formulas from federal IRS to do my taxes. It has all the features that I need and works very well. I continue to use Word & Excel 2002 from Office XP on Windows 10 Home version 1909. Apologies, I am not qualified to make security related statements. Font selection isn't as extensive, but it's good enough. I use LibreOffice on Linux and like it a lot. Really, that late? Office 2013 does not yet scale, you are saying. Office before about 2016 doesn't support scaling properly. However, there may be some issues on modern computes, for example if you have high res screens. Possibly Bernie means Office XP SP3, which contains Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2002. the built in Windows Security, assuming you are using Windows 10) then Office 2003 (I didn't think there was an Office 2002) should be safe. I just wish that Libre sWriter had a "view all files in the folder" option even though the default save format is. doc file I use Windows File Explorer anyway. But this has not been a problem for me since if I'm looking for an old. doc temporarily or use Windows Explorer to see every file in the folder. doc files one must either change the default save format to. odt as the default, sWriter will not show the. odt format but then there is another gotcha. So I switched to saving all documents in the. doc format, if certain functions are done in Libre sWriter they cannot be saved using the. Though it can open my old Word documents (.doc) and save them in the. There is one thing about switching to Libre Office though. Libre Office is pretty safe since it has ongoing security support. Switched to Libre Office which is free and can open old and new documents from MS Office. I gave up on my copy of Micosoft Office 2000 since it had problems working in Windows 10. It also has a menu-based interface like the version you're used to (rather than the ribbon interface of MS Office since 2007). It has pretty much everything the later Office versions have except some of the Cloud integration. If I use a no longer supported version and create a new document and keep it within my computer do I have a security danger? I would not open documents created from outside my computer. I wonder if the security danger of using an old version refers to opening documents sent from other computers or on line. I do not need features from later versions. Finally, though I do run MSE or Firewall, and Malwarebytes on these machines, I pay little attention to, nor have much sense of what Office-related security or other updates/installs may run, or not, on either machine. No macros, encryption, or other advanced tools/usage any longer. Note also, that my usage does not go beyond creating, editing, saving, sending, and opening Word docs, again mostly on my NUC system. I have also installed this Office version on my Win10 Surface Pro without any Word-usage problems. I'm retired and only work at home now, so my requirements and number of outside docs have lessened considerably, and I feel no incentive, have no need to update to a subscription model, and am thankful that Microsoft leaves well-enough alone. I've never had a Word problem, security-related or otherwise, and I open others' Word documents indiscriminately, from trusted recipients only -still. I still regularly use an Academic version of Office 2007 Professional, and under Windows 7 -yes, still, most of the time, though on a newer Intel NUC. I'd say yes, based on my personal home-office experience only.
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