On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Bob W wrote: > >> Odd. I use Word all day, every day. Save all manuscripts as docs and have >> never had a problem. > > I think it can get its panties stuck up its crack if the document template > gets messed up. I've been using it day in, day out for donkeys' years and in > most situations it seems to be ok if you can keep things simple. At the > place I'm working now, though, they have it set up so that users can't set > up and use their own default template and I find that the file sizes inflate > really quickly for some reason which I haven't discovered yet. For example, > a 5 page document containing only text and styles blew up to about 10mb for > some reason. When I saved it as .rtf and converted back to Word it was about > 75k, with no change to the content at all. I think the tech people at work > have knackered something - various other aspects which work predictably at > most other sites I've worked at are also knackered (but some of the > knackerage I've seen elsewhere). > > Word is an overblown, buggy, unnecessarily complex mess. It seems to be > quite fragile to being set up right or wrong. Fortunately, you can set it up > so that it works simply and predictably, but once ignorant techs start > messing around it quickly gets itself upf*cked. > I just use Word as a word processor, as I have for a couple of decades at least. I open a blank document, type a manuscript and save it. Works fine that way. And that's all I need.
That being said, I much preferred Write Now, the WP I used with the old Macs -- and even Quark Word Juggler, the WP I used with Apple IIs. But Word doesn't really cause me any grief. I do like being able to embed links with Word, which the Times wants for my internet articles. But I suppose any of the others would have been able to do that by now had they survived. Paul > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
