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Yes, I do. MSWord is my primary documenting tool and has been for most
of my career. (Once in 10 years I've been asked to use Word Perfect.)
> 2) Why
As a consultant, I use what my clients want me to use. Almost all of my
clients already have MSWord in house for their staff, so I can save them a
pretty hefty investment by using Word. Clients like that. ;)
Also, Word does what I want it to do. I'm a software documentation writer
and an on-line help system developer. I need an application that can produce
professional looking printed pages and also .rtf files for conversion to
help systems. Word does that.
Misti Tucker
Technical Communication mta -at- cyberspace -dot- org (h)
& Help System Design mtucker2 -at- e-mail -dot- com (w)
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