Re: Re Word/Weird

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Kirsch <susan -at- virtualcyber -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re Word/Weird


>Bill,
>
>I am literally rocked back onto my heels by your letter. You have
eloquently
>and succinctly stated my Word experiences and objections.
>
>Thank you.

I just spent the entire #$ -at- !$&* day wrestling with that *&#$ware. I give up.
I give UP. Yes, Bill, you've said it remarkably well. This @#^(*$ -at- *ware is
something else. Footers are such fun, what with disappearing and reappearing
page numbers and other fields. Particularly delightful is inserting an
existing document into your brand spanking new template that works
marginally well when you're writing a new document. All day I wrestled with
the #!% thing. In some cases, an existing document can be successfully
inserted into a new document created with the new template. In others, like
the one today (which came from a writer who got fed up with trying to get it
to work) nothing -- and I mean nothing -- works. By 4 o'clock today, I
managed to get the footers to work, but then the $ -at- ^$@ thing started
removing odd-page section breaks unbidden.

My next suggestion to my supervisor is that writers having existing
documents needing to be put into the new template should either type the
book again or hire someone to do it. What a waste -- but I'm not going to
spend more than an hour or two in the future trying to tame this
anti-American piece of shit.

Bonnie Granat
http://home.att.net/~bgranat