Re: Re Word/Weird

[Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org>]

Susan Kirsch wrote:

>   I am mystified when people (like my operations manager) tell me that they
>   have absolutely no trouble with Word, at all, ever. I have always felt that
>   either they are lying or have never used any advanced features (styles,
>   master documents, cross ref., bookmarks, TOC, etc.).
>

I think most Word users have never touched any of the
advanced features, nor had much of a reason to do so.
And yes, that would shelter them from some of the
problems.

Rebecca Rachmany wrote:

>   I managed this technical writing firm of 15 writers for three years, and I
>   didn't have the Word struggles described on this list. Why? Because the
>   company owners and I took the time to really learn Word, by subscribing to
>   newsgroups and learning to use the macro language. Whenever someone came
>   across a bug, someone knew how to help them quickly. We wrote macros which
>   overcome most of the major irritations, such as buggy numbering, cross-file
>   cross-references, headers and footers, the works.
>

Rebecca, I think you just helped prove the point you
were disagreeing with. You shouldn't have to write
macros to fix functions such as numbering,
cross-references, and headers/footers. They should be
working functions, not "major irritations."

Tracy
who misses Reveal Codes :-(
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Tracy Boyington
mailto:tracy_boyington -at- okvotech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Vocational & Technical
Education
Stillwater, Oklahoma
http://www.okvotech.org/cimc
Give a hoot... read a book
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