Results of WP and DTP survey

[Gretchen Toth <glt -at- ICONOVEX -dot- COM>]

A couple people have asked about the responses to a survey I sent out about
WP and DTP tools used by folks on the list.  (This was just a plain and
basic survey, no demographic stuff.  In the survey I also asked about
operating systems, but many didn't indicate their platform(s), so I left it
out of the results.)

According to the responses, Microsoft Word is used by 74% and FrameMaker,
PageMaker, and WordPerfect are used, respectively, by 48%, 31%, and 30%.  54
individuals responded to my query.

Table 1 shows the frequency of those who use some of the
wordprocessing/desktop publishing tools available today.  Note that
respondents were allowed to indicate more than one tool, so the percentages
do not total 100%.  Also note that many different tools were lumped into the
'Other' category; there is not a single 'other' tool that 20% of the
respondents are using.

Table 1
Percentage Techwr-l Members Using WP/DTP Tools

Tool    Freq    Total   %
Frame   26      54      48.15%
Page    17      54      31.48%
Word    40      54      74.07%
WP      16      54      29.63%
Leaf    8       54      14.81%
Quark   5       54      9.26%
Ventura 5       54      9.26%
Other   11      54      20.37%


:-)

Gretchen


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Gretchen L. Toth
Technical Writer
The Iconovex Corporation
gretchen -dot- toth -at- iconovex -dot- com
http://www.iconovex.com
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