I find a lot of the features such as mail merge, more
user friendly in Office XP. However, the seller for me
was in Outlook. I use hotmail as my email account. I was
never able to use Outlook to view my email until Office
XP.
I don't use Outlook, in fact I go to some lengths to avoid using M$
programs. But as far as Word goes I went back to 97. All the new
"features" are just froth as far as I'm concerned. In short it's
Bloated with a capital B