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Quoth · 08-01-2021, 07:44 AM

I think a terrible idea compared to the free & open source ereader that's distributed with Calibre. Works on Windows, Mac & Linux.

I'm pretty sure all the versions of Word I have are useless as an eReader App.

Macros & VBA are an evil feature of Word badly designed so exploited to spread malware. So I always had both disabled.

A huge bloated expensive Wordprocessor now being depreciated in favour of Office 365 as an ereader? It's not even that well supported on the Mac, though Word and Excel were released for the Mac before MS had a properly working Windows. I still have a copy of Word 2.0a which works on Win3.11 and probably on Win 3.0. It was much better than any other Windows WP even back in 1993. Office 4.3, then Office 95, then 2000, XP and Office 2003. Office 2007 introduced the stupid ribbon, but a 3rd party plug in gets rid of it.

08-01-2021, 07:44 AM	#3
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,262 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	I think a terrible idea compared to the free & open source ereader that's distributed with Calibre. Works on Windows, Mac & Linux. I'm pretty sure all the versions of Word I have are useless as an eReader App. Macros & VBA are an evil feature of Word badly designed so exploited to spread malware. So I always had both disabled. A huge bloated expensive Wordprocessor now being depreciated in favour of Office 365 as an ereader? It's not even that well supported on the Mac, though Word and Excel were released for the Mac before MS had a properly working Windows. I still have a copy of Word 2.0a which works on Win3.11 and probably on Win 3.0. It was much better than any other Windows WP even back in 1993. Office 4.3, then Office 95, then 2000, XP and Office 2003. Office 2007 introduced the stupid ribbon, but a 3rd party plug in gets rid of it.