>From: "Jean Jordaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 23:22:14 +0200
>Subject: Re: Request for some help
>
>Re. writing in linux/unix:
>
>Paul Winkler writes:
>
>> advantages for writers, over say MS Word (97 is most recent
>> version I'm familiar with):
(snip)
>I'm a M$ user because that's all my department uses. I'd love to
>use LaTeX for the typesetting I do, but for the moment I'm stuck with
>Word 97. While I generally share the exasperation of Un*x people with
>the denseness of M$ users, sometimes I do notice that Un*x folks
>write off M$ products without getting to know them.
(snip)
Fair enough. It sounds like Word is certainly much more sophisticated in
this regard than I'd thought. I found old versions of Word quite usable,
but when I first had to use Office 97 for something, I found it
incredibly frustrating-- there were a bunch of automatic formatting and
spell-correction things turned on by default, and it took me forever to
find out how to turn the damn things off. Haven't used it much since.
Then when I was writing my message the other day, I fired up Word and
searched through the help files looking for anything on formatting that
might suggest it had the capabilities you describe. Either I overlooked
them, or they're cleverly hidden, or both. I guess I just don't
understand the MS help system... and I certainly would have been more
persistent if I actually *needed* to know...
regards,
PW
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