<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Shawn King wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On 8/7/07 3:34 PM, "Earle Jones" <<A href="mailto:earle.jones@comcast.net">earle.jones@comcast.net</A>> wrote:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Some of us felt that Word hit its performance peak with version 5.1</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and has been going downhill ever since.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I certainly am in that camp.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Really? You guys think that Word 6 was faster than Office 98? I don't think I even tried the test drive of 98 because v6 was so bad, but I'm pretty sure I heard people say that v6 was slower. I bought Office X, but I was on faster hardware by then. </DIV></BODY></HTML>