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RE: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?
Subject:RE: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word? From:"Smith, Martin" <martin -dot- smith -at- encorp -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 May 2002 14:47:46 -0600
Regarding Word and its user interface/design:
I remember back when I was running Word version 3 on a 800k Macintosh
diskette. That version of Word, if I recall correctly, did not yet have the
outlining feature. I remember being excited when I upgraded to version 4.2,
which contained new features that I truly thought were useful: outlining and
footnotes among them. Since that release, all subsequent Word upgrades have
done nothing to excite me. New features were added in order to resell the
same product to the existing customer base. This has gone on for so long
that Word now contains so many commands that it's hard to believe Word is a
program for putting words to paper. Whoever would have thought the act of
writing could be made so complex?
I suspect that many users would have stopped upgrading a long time ago, if
not for one clever trick. New computers always ship with the latest version
of office. Build in incompatibility between the old and the new forces all
existing users in the office to upgrade.
Look for "Make Poetry" in the next release. You'll wonder how you ever lived
without it.
Martin
Martin R. Smith
Manager, Technical Writing
Encorp, Inc.
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