RE: Fun with Word

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

I agree...and know of no one who deems Word faultless. That seems like a
straw man. 

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Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: Fun with Word

On Wednesday, June 4, 2008, Pinkham, Jim wrote;

> And, Geoff, in fairness, what tool in our box is fully free of its own

> flaws and limitations? :)
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Limitations are fair enough; software that doesn't work as advertised is
another matter. Of course, it's a rare piece of software that has no
bugs. That said, most software houses eradicate the bugs rather than
letting them persist for version after version in the way that master
docs and automatic paragraph numbering issues have plagued Word users.

FWIW, I make much of my living with Word and I've learned enough about
it to know it doesn't always do what it says on the tin. I've also
learned that frequent backups and prods of Ctrl+S are a good insurance
policy.

I repeat my opinion that anyone who believes Word to be without fault
either doesn't know the product, is naive, or both. That's not to say
Word is not usable - it is. It's just to say that you need to know about
the gotchas and take adequate steps to mitigate them.

--
Geoff

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