This has sort-of been discussed already, but this topic has lead me to a new
question:

Why do organizations depend on Word so much...which just creates a lot of
unstructured content?

Well, the answer, of course, is because it's the word processor the company
bought and is the product everyone knows.

So, I was thinking...I know you can tap in to Word's engine and customize
the UI it with dlls and such. What would be nice is an add-on that would
'cripple' word to the point where the author could only style text based on
the style sheets defined by an external author (via a template, perhaps). No
font picking, changing colors, bolding/underlining random text, etc.  That
would seem to me an ideal way to get content authors to start creating more
structured content without having to be wrestled out of their safe haven of
MS Word. It would also make a word to clean XML parser a lot easier to
create.

Thoughts?

-Darrel
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