Tommy,

For a spreadsheet I would turn to Excel and leave Works behind you. But if you use the database module of Works, I hesitate to advice to switch to MS Access.

For Word it doesn't really matter, in my opinion, although I don't know the exact difference between these two versions. But, somehow, I should stick to the latest version. It doesn't seem to harm: read the answers to your previous posts.

And a free tip: before uninstalling Works, be sure your new Office applications can read all the data you want to keep. Else convert it to some format that can be read (like rtf for documents).

Kees