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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I agree there are some good features in Word 2007 and some great
add ons as well. I am working on a lot of alt format conversion and I
will tell you that due to the performance issues with Word 2007 I am going to
stick with Word 2003 as long as I can.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ron Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert
Iakobashvili<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technologists in Higher Education Network<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Ofer Chermesh<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] MS Word Benchmarking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi Ron,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Ron Stewart <<a
href="mailto:ron@ahead.org">ron@ahead.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Some might find</span> <span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>this interesting, more ammo on why
to stick to Word 2003 if you can.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Benchmarking
Microsoft Word 95 through Word 2007</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/07/benchmarking-microsoft-word-95-2007.html"
target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.oooninja.com/2008/07/benchmarking-microsoft-word-95-2007.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*********************************************************************</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ron
Stewart MS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks, very interesting link.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>If LD students are properly guided and instructed, there are
reasons <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>to move to contextual spelling editors like Word-2007 and
Ghotit with Word plugins coming<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>very soon.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>A previous porting may be of reference:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://athenpro.org/pipermail/athen_athenpro.org/2008-August/002791.html">http://athenpro.org/pipermail/athen_athenpro.org/2008-August/002791.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>and benchmarks are here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://athenpro.org/pipermail/athen_athenpro.org/attachments/20080821/78f5f447/attachment-0001.doc">http://athenpro.org/pipermail/athen_athenpro.org/attachments/20080821/78f5f447/attachment-0001.doc</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Truly,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Robert Iakobashvili, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ghotit.com/">www.ghotit.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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