Andy Oliver replies that he likes Office 97 and that it's reliable under Wine. I'm not that against Word, I think I started word processing with Word 2.0c under Windows 3.1, it was quite fun :-) After some years, I'm just a bit tired of how non-productive I am with Word. Typically, it loses my numbering after 15 minutes of work, I don't like the way it selects text, I don't like to be forced to crawl the network to find the right stylesheet.

There was a time when I was doing my editing with LATEX, on a 486-SX40 with Emacs, and previsualisation with xdvi with WM2 as a window manager... and that was simply great. Editing a plain text file is quick, saving doesn't take hours, revision control was a breeze and the typesetting is just gorgeous. The only really painful point was to insert graphics, and more, drawing on xfig with a 800x600 resolution was a little difficult, because the controls didn't fit! That was some years ago...

So when after 1 or 2 hours, Word on NT4 crashes for the second times (Lord knows why, not even a single graphic in that 10 pages paper), I'm a bit upset, and I rant :-)