I just bought a refurbished with Windows 7 computer. I did a test drive of Works 9.0, and lacked features that I found.

I just bought a refurbished with Windows 7 computer.  On my old XP computer, I used to use Word 97 and later also used a version of works that might have been 2004 (?).  (Usually I only used word processing and Excel.)

I took a test drive of Works 9.0, and found features that I liked were missing, specifically:

  • Previously with Word I could draw snazzy borders on the table cells, which some had graduated shading that looked almost like a real 3-d picture frame.  These borders changed to something else (rather ugly) when I took an old Word 97 and load in Works 9.0 word processing document.
  • With a table created in Word 97, it was easy to summarize a bunch of numbers that were all stacked in a column (or do other types of math).  Could not do with the Works 9.0 word processor.

(These features were absent from Open Office as well, or at best have been tedious to use.)

Word usually has features more and better than the works (such as those mentioned above)?

Any suggestions on what I should use for word processing? Should not be the latest version, but should be compatible with Windows 7.

Office 2007 and later nothing will work on Windows 7 but do not expect the full set of features in Office 97. Office 2007 and beyond have their own sets of complete functionality... :-)

The problem is the purchase of older versions of Office. Microsoft does not provide them and you won't get one of them cheap.

Corel has always produced WordPerfect... http://www.WordPerfect.com/us/product/Office-suite/?sso_test=true

Free and Open Office are the alternatives...

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