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From: U39648@uicvm.uic.edu (From The Mind Of)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word and Excel : academic version differences?
Message-ID: <91033.115025U39648@uicvm.uic.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 91 17:50:25 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.234517.1487@lia> <91032.090816U39648@uicvm.uic.edu>
 <1991Feb1.162531.26114@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Feb1.162531.26114@athena.mit.edu>, acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew
R Cook) says:
>By the way, someone mentioned that a difference was in softcover/hardcover
>binding of the manuals.  I found that this was *not* true.  I have bought
>both commercial and academic versions of Word (DOS) and both come with the
>same lousy paperback manuals.  It seems MS has cheaped out, and went to
>softcover to cut costs.  Alas, the books no longer stay open by themselves,
>thus requiring an extra arm(which most people(?) do not have) to hold the
>book.

Word for Windows comes with a nice, large, hardcover manual for the commercial
version, and a cheap softcover in acdemic edition.

- Darius
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