Re: Suggestions for new tool options
Kristin Field sez..
After reading his comments
regarding your sarcasm, I am feeling rather @#!* off that you wasted your
time and more importantly mine! I subscribed to this listserve hoping to
have some place to get and offer some legitimate suggestions. If you sent
your response as a legitimate answer to my questions, forgive me for not
heeding your well-intentioned advice. Although I do not know you, this
first encounter has caused me not to trust you. In the future, please do not
respond to my posts.
Okay then.
You obviously don't want help, you want some group consensus that you should
throw away your existing tools and embrace complex, new expensive ones. Well,
many people will undoubtly tell you to do so. And they might be correct.
I don't think you do need to throw away Word. We've done lots of projects of
this size in Word. We saved our clients over $500,000 last year in
documentation and personnel costs. One reason was because we resisted urges to
rebuild everything because of a few glitches.
As Gunny Highway likes to say, "I'll send you home with that 'just pumped the
cat' look on your face." er I mean "You have to learn to adapt and improvise."
Booyah!
Andrew Plato
And I still say, that if you are asked to build a canal across the isthmus of Panama, given some iodine, two short handled shovels, and four men, you have a right to ask about different tools.
Word is broke. Any tool that you have to use as many work-arounds as you have to do in Word is broke. And the last time I looked, the Word manual (do they actually make one still) did not tell you how to use any of the "features" so that they would work consistently, and reliably.
Send your flames to me personally Andrew, save the rest of the list for other things.
Scott
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