RE: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?

[David Farbey <David -dot- Farbey -at- lazysoft -dot- com>]

> >At the risk of opening the flood gates: what are the main problems
> >thatlist users have with MS Word?
>

There are entire Web sites dedicated to the answers to this question (for
example http://www.mvps.org/word/ and http://www.wopr.com/)

Someone already mentioned "assumed formatting". I characterize this as
old-fashioned "Soviet-style" behaviour. The "authorities" - in this case the
Word programmers - know what you need better than you know yourself! This
may be helpful for some casual or routine users, but I find it highly
frustrating for more professional use. 

Autonumbering has also been mentioned as a problem. I would add page and
section break behaviour as well. I also suspect that the degree to which MS
Office products are closely integrated into the Windows operating system is
the source of many difficulties.

David Farbey
mailto:david -dot- farbey -at- lazysoft -dot- com
Technical Writer
Lazy Software Ltd., UK
http://www.lazysoft.com
Phone: 01628-642314




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