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Hello group,

I would like to take you all on a journey back to the year 1995 and talk
about the product that is known as Word 95 or some also called it Word 7.0
.. I still use it, that's right, on my home computer because it is small,
fast, uncluttered, no cartoon people or objects popping up at you, and
reliable. I don't share Word documents with anyone, I just use it to
store documents that mean something to me and are only for my use, so I
don't really need to upgrade.

My question is this, using XP Home running Word 95, is their any type of
anything that I can use, or install, or copy, or paste, or change, or add
to make the auto scroll wheel on a mouse work with Word 95. I am quickly
getting tired of having to use the up/down scroll buttons to navigate
through a document and would like to be able to use the scroll wheel like
you can with Word 97, etc...

Thanks,

Alt.
 
There is little reason to change if the Word version you have works well
on your hardware and has all the features you need,

The wheel mouse will work with some software using the Windows dirvers.
I.e., there is no need to install the drivers that come with the mouse or
are downloadable from microsoft.com. There is another group of software
that needs the support provided by that software. Also, there is software
that cannot take advantage of some of the wheel mouse's capabilities.

The only thing I can suggest is that you try the latest mouse software.

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/Download.mspx

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User


message : Hello group,
:
: I would like to take you all on a journey back to the year 1995 and
talk
: about the product that is known as Word 95 or some also called it Word
7.0
: . I still use it, that's right, on my home computer because it is
small,
: fast, uncluttered, no cartoon people or objects popping up at you, and
: reliable. I don't share Word documents with anyone, I just use it to
: store documents that mean something to me and are only for my use, so I
: don't really need to upgrade.
:
: My question is this, using XP Home running Word 95, is their any type
of
: anything that I can use, or install, or copy, or paste, or change, or
add
: to make the auto scroll wheel on a mouse work with Word 95. I am
quickly
: getting tired of having to use the up/down scroll buttons to navigate
: through a document and would like to be able to use the scroll wheel
like
: you can with Word 97, etc...
:
: Thanks,
:
: Alt.
:
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Jay Freedman said:
Hi Alt,

I don't know for sure that it will do the job, and I'm not going to
install
Word 95 myself to find out, but try FreeWheel
(http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2060/freewheel.html), a free
utility.

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Click to expand...

Jay, thanks for the help. Unfortunately the program did not work. I
guess I will just have to weigh my options and decide if I would rather
install a bulky program like Word Perfect 12 on my computer, which I do
have, or just keep using Word 95 without scroll wheel functionality.

Alt.
 
Alt-Ctrl-Del said:
Jay, thanks for the help. Unfortunately the program did not work. I
guess I will just have to weigh my options and decide if I would rather
install a bulky program like Word Perfect 12 on my computer, which I do
have, or just keep using Word 95 without scroll wheel functionality.

Alt.
Click to expand...
You might try OpenOffice (free) from http://www.openoffice.org/
 
Chuck Davis said:
You might try OpenOffice (free) from http://www.openoffice.org/
Click to expand...

Chuck, thanks for the suggestion. Although I am sure that Open Office
would work great I am on a regular dial up connection and it seems to be a
large file to download. I realize I could order the CD but I think it
would still be too large for my taste and it probably drains your system
resources and memory also. I really like the simplicity of Word 95 and
the small footprint, that is why I hesitate to install Word Perfect 12.
It, like Open Office, is way up in the hundreds of megabytes in size.

Alt.
 
You need to make a friend with a computer with a CD burner and broadband.
;-)
 
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