If you have it, I would recommend Word 4.0e with System 7.1
Word 5.1 was the beginning of slowness and bloat. It introduced lots of gratuitous menu bars that hogged precious screen real estate on our 9" screens. It came on at least 4 HD floppy whilst the entire 4.0e program came on an 800k floppy with maybe one other 800k with a dictionary and had all of the features I ever needed for publishing scientific journal papers with graphics.
It is not a bloat overmatch for your system like 5.1 is and will scream on your Plus running 7.1 and would be even zipper under 6.0.x
I have 4.0e and 7.1 on my SE/30 and my IIci.
You need the "e" revision to run on quadras and PPC systems. The earlier revs will hang on those newer systems.
I consider it to be among Microsoft's best work ever.
Brian
Word 5.1 was the beginning of slowness and bloat. It introduced lots of gratuitous menu bars that hogged precious screen real estate on our 9" screens. It came on at least 4 HD floppy whilst the entire 4.0e program came on an 800k floppy with maybe one other 800k with a dictionary and had all of the features I ever needed for publishing scientific journal papers with graphics.
It is not a bloat overmatch for your system like 5.1 is and will scream on your Plus running 7.1 and would be even zipper under 6.0.x
I have 4.0e and 7.1 on my SE/30 and my IIci.
You need the "e" revision to run on quadras and PPC systems. The earlier revs will hang on those newer systems.
I consider it to be among Microsoft's best work ever.
Brian