On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 15:09 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote:
> What is beginning to baffle me, is why we even have file titles. They
> serve no purpose other than as a field, and we already have a field tool.
I have not researched this, but I've got my theory. I think you will
not like it though:
1. We've got titles because MS Word has them
2. MS Word has titles because once upon a time, when competing
products to Windows had long filenames with spaces, and without
ugly extensions, Microsoft wanted to have a stop-gap solution
to help users who were confused when they had hundreds of documents
named LETRRAL.DOX, LETR1V2.DOC, NEWLETR.DOC or similar. Therefore
they came up with "Document Titles".
> This is a place where we could easily and practically eliminate a
> preference or option.
Any day ; )
(unfortunately I think they are needed for Word interoperability
nowadays)
/ralph
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