On Nov 1, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Dave Checkman wrote:
In addition to some handy tips and instructions for performing basic customizing, Bruce Johnson yesterday asked for some particularities ...
You say 'ordinary word processing' but what kind? Letters, routine correspondence? Term Papers? Legal research? Fiction? Scientific papers? Do you change fonts often, rarely, do you use Styles a lot, do you need buttons for bold and italics or are your fingers trained for Command-b and Command-i? Same for the New and Save commands?
Letters and reports (usually 25-35 page affairs). Some reports (actually articles) with endnotes. And, I like my fonts to stay put and, almost always, just mess around with font style which I usually access by menu. I've found that not needing to have my fingers leave the keyboard (with the true maven's satisfaction in this) doesn't move me very much; leaving the keyboard, in fact, serves to vary my activity long enough, sometimes, even to give me a chance to *think*. (I'm not so proficient a typist that my typing naturally and unselfconsciously accompanies thought.)
You know, you pretty much just wrote a specification of Nisus Writer; you may want to try out Nisus Express <http://www.nisus.com> before you spend on Word.
-- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Phar macy Information Technology Group
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