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“Why have you stuck with Office 97 this long, and has
that decision caused any problems for you?“Danny J. Wall: We are still using Office 97 because we have no
need to use the features on Microsoft’s newer Office products.“Daniel Bray: Using Office 97 causes some problems, as some
people are exporting spreadsheets out to Office 2000 and some
external incoming e-mails will have an Office 2000-formatted file
attached. So, we did see the need to upgrade, and we thought
OpenOffice would be a good choice…”