The creator of Forum 5 lands an internship

[A Black Falcon]

I like Word. I tried OpenOffice but the save files were, for whatever reason, ten times as large as before, so I quit on it.

Huh? I've always found the exact opposite to be true. Word documents are very consistently much larger than OpenOffice or WordPerfect ones (though .rtf files are sometimes smaller than any of those, they also have limitations on what you can do with them). I've had to do a lot of saving documents in their native format as well as in Word format, and I can't think of one single time when the Word document is smaller. Doing a little checking backs that up.

Wordperfect: WP size vs. Word size. All originally created in Wordperfect and later saved as Word files within the program, for transfer.

13KB WP, 24KB Word; 28 WP, 97 Word; 22 WP, 84 Word; 5KB WP, 28KB Word,

Wordperfect format vs. generic .rtf
6 WP, 7 RTF; 8 WP, 8 RTF; 35 WP, 31 RTF.


And then there's this one... three versions of the same file, from different times.
1 page Word version: 32KB
2 page RTF version: 6KB
4 page Wordperfect version: 9KB

Similarly... various versions of a paper from last semester.
20 pg. Word version: 137KB
28 pg. Word version: 233KB
34 pg. Wordperfect version: 85KB
36 pg. Word version: 297KB

OpenOffice: same as above, but Openoffice size/Word size.

29 OO, 124 Word; 28 OO, 128 Word.

Wordperfect 6 and 10 can't save in .odt and OO can't save in .wpd, though (and I don't have Wordperfect installed on this machine yet), so I can't directly compare those two. :) But I think I've pretty well proven the point.

And, ABF, you used Windows ME for years. The worst OS the company ever created.

Maybe "compared to their previous OS", but not objectively. It's certainly better than any of the Windows versions before Windows 98 (I mean, Win95's 2GB partition size limit just isn't going to cut it anymore... :D)...

And it got me working real-mode DOS, which was great, and is something I miss on this computer.