On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 23:47, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > These days, my favorite DOS word processor is Microsoft Word for DOS. > Microsoft released a copy for free on their download.microsoft.com > website. It feels quite modern compared to today's word processors. > The key combinations that you just "assume" on today's word processors > work in Word for DOS. Ctrl-i for italics, ctrl-b for bold, etc. That > works well for me.
Absolutely -- Word 5.5 for DOS is good and completely free. It was MS' way of offering a Y2K fix with minimal effort. Sadly, it doesn't also apply to Word 6, which was the last ever version and which is a more pleasant tool IMHO. Word 6 uses the same menu layouts and file formats as Word 6 on Mac and 16-bit Windows, and Word 95 on 32-bit Windows, and can round-trip documents just fine. The outliner works better in 6, too. :-( I do own copies of Word 97 and Office 2000, so I think I can use down-level versions legally, but sadly Word 6 is not freeware. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
