Comment by lproven

On a Mac, that's fine. On Windows, it's not, because then I can't control the app any more.

I have been using Word since version 4 on DOS and version 5 on Classic MacOS. On Windows, I used WinWord 1, 2, 6, 95, 97, 2000, XP and 2003... then 4 years later MS ripped out the UI I knew backwards and had known for about 16 years, since 1991, and replaced it with one inferior in every way for me.

I'm not denying it might be better for others but for me it's now a waste of disk space.

The old versions do all I need, so I keep them. For everything except Word, there is LibreOffice.

But LibreOffice Writer has no outline mode, and I am a writer: that is THE killer function of Word for me.

So, Word 97 under WINE on Linux and Word 2003 when I have to use Win10 or -- shudder -- Win11.