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Subject:Re: Rotating tables in Word -- Solution From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:38:23 -0500
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>Clever solution - kudos to the mystery Word wizard!
>
Thanks. I originally posted my suggestion off-list because I am most definitely NOT a Word wizard. I was shooting from the hip and had not tested the suggestion, so I didn't want to go on record with it.
But where the idea came from is an underlying attitude toward tools that I commend to others: I decide what squiggly black marks I want to see on the page and I decide where I want them. Then I figure out a way to make the tools available to me put those marks where I want them. I don't assume that a committee of twenty-something computer science geeks in Redmond (or anywhere else) knows more than I do about my purpose, my intent, or my needs. I do not defer to them on design decisions, nor accept their pedestrian defaults. I don't work for the tools. They work for me. In short, Workarounds 'R' Us.
Dick
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