RE: If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

As a professional writer who usually works in Word, I'd agree with Barry
and take it a step further: The better Word gets for the casual user,
the worse it gets for me. In order to work efficiently in Word 2003, I
generally start by making it emulate Word 95 (or thereabouts). And from
what I see on TECHWR-L and Word-PC, I'm not the only one.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:10 PM
> To: Nancy Allison
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .
> 
> Microsoft Word became a standard because it has gotten progressively
> better at supporting non-technical users in performing essentially
> simple tasks...
> 
> Word is *not* very good at supporting professional writers who know
> how to use computers and who need to generate long, complex documents,
> especially people who do serious writing in academic, technical, or
> scientific fields...
> 

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