What they attempted to do was what I dislike about some Word
Processor users. They wanted to make it more like a page layout
program, but forgot the fine controls needed to male them good.
Word Perfect was a great word processor but then they insisted on
adding crap so it could do fancy page layout stuff. Problem became
it was still a Word Processor.
There was a reason programs like Aldus PageMaker were made (now owned
by Adobe). They allowed Computer Users to start type setting
documents. It was a page layout program. You typed up your text in
a word processor and do some of your layout there. (paragraph, font
etc.) Then you bring it into Pagemaker and layout your page. (Much
like a newspaper laid out the newspaper)
But MS wanted to add some of that stuff to Word and made it bloated
and difficult to use.
I still use Pagemaker for laying out pamphlets etc. I also use
Publisher for some of the smaller tasks. That is what they were made for.
Even Adobe has gotten into this mix and done the very same thing with
their programs.
Stewart
At 09:56 PM 3/24/2009, you wrote:
>What MS forgot, was we spent years learning how to use their Word
>Processor and were quite happy with it. We did not ask them to
>change the menu system on it.
They also forgot that they once had a very good word processor that was
very logical and easy to use. They have steadily crapped it up. I dread
each new release. Very sad because I used to be a big fan of MS Word and
was always recommending it. No more.
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