On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:06:43AM -0500, steve ulrich wrote: > > i'll take issue with the notion that you need to beat your head > against the wall to create a professional quality document with word. > there are millions of people who do precisely that with word every day > and i've seen very few with pronounced head trauma. Oh, puh-lease. You have seen "millions" succesfull, happy word users and only "very few with _pronounced_ head trauma"? That might mean that "professional" "quality" have different meangings for Microsoft-products-using-people. How about consistent laid out tables. Consisten use of styles and templates? (ha! I doubt your "millions" know what a template is - almost everybody I know just goes on happily with highlighting text and changing font sizes and faces.) How about saving in a consitent format that everybody that has Word can read? How about a decent charting module? (yes, I know about visio but at least arrows that "glue" to the boxes, can we get that?). How about a consistent UI? Word 2000 now opens a window for each document. Neat. But if you have a modal dialog in one window, all other windows are frozen. Or do I have to upgrade to XP to get a fix for their dumbness? florin, who had to edit Word documents for the last two weeks and that made him really cranky... -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020605/836f3150/attachment.pgp