Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through any elementary school or high school. Those splashy book covers? Chances are they're distributed by Cover Concepts, a company that sells advertising space on book covers to companies like Nestle and Calvin Klein. That new weight-lifting machine? The school may participate in any of the incentive programs run by General Mills, Campbell's soup or AT&T. Schools earn points for every box top, soup label or long-distance phone call--which can then be redeemed for athletic and educational equipment. Or the school may be flush with prize money won in a contest sponsored by Chips...
...more of its applications: Word (for word processing), Outlook (for e-mail), Excel (for spreadsheets), Access (for databases) and Powerpoint (to make tedious, overhead-style slides for interminable meetings). The premium package adds the Web-page builder FrontPage; the image manipulator PhotoDraw; and Publisher, a desktop publishing program. It comes on an intimidating four (!) CD-ROMs, but I needed to install only the first disk to get started; the others hold supplementary material that many users won't need...
That was a relief. I figured that Office 2000 would be another case of Microsoft bulking up its software, giving me features I'd never be able to figure out, let alone use. So far that hasn't been my experience. Word, for instance, looks like my old program but has a number of improvements, such as better grammar and spelling checkers and menus that adapt to the way you use them...
Still, Office 2000 attempts to spin the Microsoft web even further, adding tools that will benefit mainly corporate, rather than home, users. The Web, in fact, is what the millennial Office is all about. Virtually every program is designed to interact with the Net. When you create a Word document, for instance, you can save it in the Web's native language, HTML, and upload it to your website. Or add hypertext links to your Word file, or implant e-mail addresses without knowing how to write a line of code. And when Word converts your text to HTML...
...stopped eating and slipped into a depression. A friend had to care for her son. Eventually friends found her a psychiatrist willing to provide free therapy and medication. Since January she has been working as a clerk in a government-sponsored public works program, which pays for food and the tiny, unheated basement apartment she moved into after being laid off. But Kim doesn't know what she and her son will do when the money from her subsidized program runs...