Microsoft Office 2000 is, as far as I’m concerned, the best release of MSO ever to exist. Why? It’s lightning fast, has unbelievably good backward compatibility, and as you’ll see in the above video, it’s actually fun.
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I loved Microsoft Office 2000 as well and up until recently, was the last major version of Microsoft Office I used. After Office 2000, I used OpenOffice.org and then LibreOffice and was perfectly content. Earlier this year I started preparing Powerpoint slides for my church. On their computers, they use Office 2010 and it was a learning process. I had to rediscover how to do things I knew how to do in Office 2000. Right now I have the Office 2013 preview installed on my computer and will probably end up purchasing it in the end because I had issues getting presentations to work properly between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office.
I’ve always liked MS Office products. I prefer them over the free alternatives but partly because I get them through a corporate “Home Use Program” that many companies are part of but don’t tell their employees. Under that program, employees can buy MS Office for $10 (or so) and for about the same amount, add a DVD mailed to your home. If you buy it that way, you can only get one copy (unless you get it through other employees who don’t use the program). Don’t lose your reg key #. I did, and MS was unable to find m in their database for some reason, until I found the mailer with the DVD I paid extra for. They used the order number to find me and then gave me the reg key # over the phone. That alone is a good reason to buy the DVD and have it sent to your home.
It doesn’t hurt to ask your company’s IT department if they have the Home Use program available. You may even be able to get MS Office for the MAC that way. I see it on the web page for the program but since I already bought the Windows version, it’s likely to not allow me to order it in addition to the Windows version.
I do remember MS Office for Win 95 and earlier versions as being very quick to load in Windows 3.1 and Win 95. MS Office 97 was fine, too. I don’t remember if I ever had Office 2000 but I can see in the video that it also loaded very quickly also.
Rich, can you do anything about the annoying Google ads over the bottom off the video window? I’m not referring to the ad video that plays before your video does. I can understand the need for advertising support that way. I don’t like things that pop up after I’m watching a video over the bottom of the video like they do now on this site.
I’m about to give up on ads again and install an ad blocker. I don’t mind advertising that doesn’t intrude into the information I’m reading or watching, and often stop and read those ads before or after I do what I went to the web page to do. But intrusive ads I find annoying, and I tend to not even read those, just clicking them to get rid of them. Some web sites are so bad that I don’t go there any more.
Donald
Just about all the video sites (even YouTube albeit in somewhat of a random way) are doing that now and there unfortunately isn’t anything I can do about it. if you want to ad-block, that’s fine. Totally your call on that one.