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Subject:Re: Word Help (problem solved) From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:10:49 -0600
During a crunch period at a place I was working, the SME dictated the
information into a taping machine. Figuring a transcriber could type the
information into the computer faster and cheaper than their high-priced
consultant, the company hired a word processing person.
After I finished cleaning up her mess and properly incorporating it, I warned
them they should NEVER hire that woman again. Among other sins, she used the
<Enter> key as a typewriter carriage return!!!
I've seen too many times when bad formatting messed up a document to want to
deal with anyone who doesn't have adequate knowledge of the tools. Or, at least,
a willingness to learn.
Jo Byrd
Sharon Deitch wrote, in part:
> Sue Gallagher asked:
> > Am I just being curmudgeonly?
>
> to which Sharon Burton-Hardin replied:
> > No, you are NOT being a pain.
>
> Count me in here!
>
> I HATE seeing spaces and paragraph marks all over documents that cross my
> computer. Given a choice, I'd also delete a resume that was not properly
> formatted. I've often been tempted to write back and explain the problem, but
> I never have.
>
> I recently received a sample translation from a local company where, among
> other sins, the translator had used spaces to line up paragraphs in tables
> (instead of manual line-breaks, as were in the original). I told my boss that
> there was no way we could accept that kind of shoddy work, especially when
> plenty of others know how to work properly.
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