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Suzanne,

Adobe decided to get cute when naming its latest products "CS"
(Creative Suite) but it has caused widespread confusion. You
can regard Adobe Photoshop CS as Photoshop 8. The latest
PS version is now Adobe Photoshop CS2, which is really the
same as Photoshop 8.01.

It's simpler when software companies maintain logical numbering
schemes (I prefer years in titles) when producing new versions.
It's easier for me to relate to Office 2000 or Office 2003. When
I see a topic referencing Office 97, I immediately know it's about
an ancient product and to keep on moving. It's not so clear if the
topic is about Office CS, or Office CX, or Office 12.

Unfortunately, Microsoft promoted the trend by introducing XP
and Vista. We shouldn't be surprised if Word is renamed to
something such as "Expressive".

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ...
Acrobat 7 uses a COM add-in. I don't know what Adobe CS2 is.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Colonel Blip" wrote in message
...
Hello, Greg!
You wrote on Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:01:30 -0500:

No such animal on my disk. I've got several AdobePDFMaker files but none
of
them are dot files.

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail:

GM They come from a file named PDFMaker.dot

Don't knock "Office 12." That is just the version number (Office 2003 is v.
11.0). When Office 12 actually ships, it will undoubtedly have a different
"marketing" name, though Help | About Microsoft Word will still show 12.0 as
the version. Let's just hope that the "marketing" name is a year (as you and
I both prefer) and not something as confusing as XP (which was doubly
confusing because the component parts are Word 2002, Excel 2002, etc.).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Uncle Joe" wrote in message
...
Suzanne,

Adobe decided to get cute when naming its latest products "CS"
(Creative Suite) but it has caused widespread confusion. You
can regard Adobe Photoshop CS as Photoshop 8. The latest
PS version is now Adobe Photoshop CS2, which is really the
same as Photoshop 8.01.

It's simpler when software companies maintain logical numbering
schemes (I prefer years in titles) when producing new versions.
It's easier for me to relate to Office 2000 or Office 2003. When
I see a topic referencing Office 97, I immediately know it's about
an ancient product and to keep on moving. It's not so clear if the
topic is about Office CS, or Office CX, or Office 12.

Unfortunately, Microsoft promoted the trend by introducing XP
and Vista. We shouldn't be surprised if Word is renamed to
something such as "Expressive".

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Acrobat 7 uses a COM add-in. I don't know what Adobe CS2 is.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Colonel Blip" wrote in message
...
Hello, Greg!
You wrote on Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:01:30 -0500:

No such animal on my disk. I've got several AdobePDFMaker files but
none
of
them are dot files.

Thanks,

Colonel Blip.
E-mail:

GM They come from a file named PDFMaker.dot