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How Can I Download an Old Version of Word?
Most online offers for free Microsoft Word programs are either illegal or misleading. Microsoft is very careful about protecting its ownership of products. However, one version of Word was released for free in 1999: Word 5.5. This version had a serious Y2K problem that, without a fix, corrupted every document created on it before the year 2000. Microsoft's cost analysis showed that it would be more expensive to contact each individual license holder than it would be to simply release the program. So they posted it on their site, free to download.
There are some problems with this version. First, it is the last DOS-based MS Word, so computers running Windows 98 or later will only run it in the built-in DOS emulator. Windows 7 computers may not be able to run it at all without a downloaded DOS emulator like DOSBox. Second, it is no longer a supported version, so it's difficult to resolve problems it may cause and difficult to find documentation for it. A quick search on Amazon or Barnes & Noble does turn up some old how-to books on this version, however.
download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe
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