Hans, thanks for this meat-and-veggies response.
HansV wrote: ↑14 Oct 2024, 14:03
Keep in mind that Office 2024 Home does not include Outlook; if you want that you'll need Office 2024 Home and Business.
Outlook? Wot That?
I thought that Outlook had been abandoned by MSoft?
And yes, you will be able to use Office 2003 and Office 2024 side by side.
That is re-assuring. I anticipate a few changes to my coding. It will be very handy to be able to run a troubling application in parallel on the one laptop.
But why not switch to Microsoft 365 Personal? For CAD 79 per year you get ALL Office apps, locally installed, with monthly updates to the newest features.
(1) I want to make a one-off payment and be done with it. I don't like the annual blood-from-stone model.
(2) The only MSoft aps I use regularly are Word (85%), Excel(10%) and Access(5%). My life these past twenty-seven years has been spent in MSWord/VBA applications.
(3) More than I detest subscriptions do I hate updates; they make a programming platform unstable.
Office 2024 can be installed on one device only.
That's enough. Visualize me with one Win11 Laptop as my production device, with a Win7/Office2003 as a standby device.
Microsoft 365 Personal can be used on up to 5 devices at the same time, and you get 1TB of OneDrive storage. (Note: you're NOT required to store your documents on OneDrive)
My laptops are labeled LT01 through LT08. Adding LT09 will probably crash my bio-ram!
I dislike internet-based storage (except for parking data on Eileen's Lounge in the form of memo-posts)
I suppose this is a habit I picked up back in the early 70s when I was trained to avoid weird storage, such as
COSY for punched cards on CDC 3300 systems.
I suspect that most active members of Eileen's Lounge will be relieved when I wean myself from Office 2003. I'm not looking forward to it. For one thing I've heard of something called a Ribbon ...
Cheers and Thanks again, Chris