you know, the old word pad opens word documents. I think it was with either millenium or xp that it stopped because ms wanted to sell office.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Jolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:10 PM Subject: Re: apple store snafoo: True enough. I do actually keep text edit on hand for a lot of things. Taking down short numbers. I have a file called Scratchpad.rtf in my desktop folder that is used for this. It is opened at the beginning of each day and is often used for taking down the odd number say from directory enquiries. Marvelous to see how useful it is. Better than wordpad in many respects as well because it opens up word documents. -James- On 25 Apr 2008, at 21:07, David Poehlman wrote: > My question was rheotorical and while you have some good points, and > just > because someone calls their kettle a different color, that doesn't > make text > edit not a word processor. A word processor is anything that > processes > words. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "vashaun jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:49 PM > Subject: Re: apple store snafoo: > > > If you have to ask then something is seriously wrong with your thought > process. Can you do your college studies with Text Edit? That's almost > like saying creating tables and spreadsheets are the same. By the way, > can you create tables, foot notes or the like in Text Edit? The answer > is no and that answer is simple. Its because it is a Text Editor and > not a word processor. I can type text in a web form, edit it and > change font sizes, but that doesn't make it a text editor much less a > word processor. If it was a word processor then we wouldn't need > Microsoft to make MS Word accessible, we wouldn't be looking at other > alternatives to word processing such as Nisus Writer. Even the makers > of Bean which is a closer example and a better tooled text editor says > it isn't a word processor. Just because you can type text doesn't make > it a word processor. > On Apr 25, 2008, at 2:32 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> so what's text edit? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "vashaun jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS >> X by >> theblind" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 2:25 PM >> Subject: Re: apple store snafoo: >> >> >> It doesn't! >> On Apr 25, 2008, at 1:31 PM, David Poehlman wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I just got a message telling me that someone went to an apple store >>> to look >>> at Macs and when they asked if the mac came with a word processor, >>> the sales >>> person said no. >>> >>> -- >>> Jonnie Appleseed >>> With His >>> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s >>> Reducing Technologies disabilities >>> one byte at a time >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
