Thank you. You are absolutely right. But..
Yes, my very old offline computer operates on Win98se, but I have in my office a newer one working on XP and I still cannot discover the great advantage of this OS over the 98, except perhaps in surfing the Internet.
And yes, I work with Office97. About twenty five years of working on computers taught me that “the best program is the one which you know best.” I tried to work with Word 2000 and 2003 but I found that with a lot of graphics the Word97 is much simpler, quicker and lighter for work than the more sophisticated ones.
Besides at 85 is a little hard to master a new tool.
As to the file volume – I found often that the original volume of graphics and text together is sometimes only 25-30% of the finished file. The file inflation is due to the various corrections in editing, exchange of graphics etc, which are deleted from screen but remain embedded somewhere in the file. This is what I try to get rid off.
Thank you for your comments.