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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
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Subject: Re: Academic vs. Regular MSWord/Excel?
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.131536.7423@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 13:15:36 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.233716.1203@cognet.ucla.edu>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
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In article <1991Jun4.233716.1203@cognet.ucla.edu> earl@cogdev.cognet.ucla.edu (Earl Williams) writes:
>Can anyone describe the differences between the academic and regular
>versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word?  Are many features
>disabled, or?

I've found the following differences between Academic Word and regular
Word:

(1) The Academic version has a different label.
(2) Upgrades to the Academic version do NOT include manuals. When I
    updated 3.0 to 4.0, I got a coupon with the 4.0 package allowing me
    to get the manuals for $35.
(3) You can not upgrade an Academic version to a Full version.  Things
    were this way when I moved from 3.0 to 4.0.

Microsoft sales is probably the BEST source for current information.
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