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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Mote on January 04, 2013, 09:52:44 AM ---I'm not entirely sure howWord got such an apparently hideous reputation, as most of the things I see complained about aren't things I've had issues with.
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Because it's a pig to work with if you were trained on using a text editor first and a format-for-printing program second; it drives me crazy to disable all the ways it will try to "fix" all my first drafts when I do not at that point care, for example, about the widows and orphans thing because I am likely going to be changing the text enough to alter that anyway.
Nadeem6:
What programs do you all like if MS word isn't worthwhile. And what format to editors prefer to have documents sent as?
trboturtle:
I use Wordperfect, and have done so for years. Very rarely have problems with it.....
Craig
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Nadeem6 on January 10, 2013, 11:08:04 PM ---What programs do you all like if MS word isn't worthwhile.
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I use emacs for handling text, novels and professional both. Used to use Protext for a while, when I worked primarily in DOS.
--- Quote --- And what format to editors prefer to have documents sent as?
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Editors i have dealt with want the damn thing printed out, and so long as the font and spacing and page numbering and headers and so forth are in the specified formats, sfaict could not care less what program you use to get it that way.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on January 10, 2013, 06:59:17 PM ---Neither am I; as I mentioned upthread my issues with it have been pretty trivial. Maybe it's one of those "anything popular must be bad" things.
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Same for me. The only problems I have is that it will do things that I don't know about, nor know how to use. Often I find myself doing something that takes forever while I mutter to myself, "I know it can do this, but I don't know how to make it do it!" I love find function, replace function, and tracking. What I'd love to learn is how to compare two documents and have it show me the differences. I know it can do it, but... Well, it just gives me a headache. I'd also like to search out grammar errors; like click a button and have it scroll to them automatically. I'm sure it can do it, but I haven't figured out how.
I was thrilled to have discovered how to use page break, and there can't be anything easier to do. It only took me ten blankety-blank years to learn it. I'm old enough to automatically drop two spaces in after a period. Thankfully, I've worked my way out of it, but I was inordinately proud when I figured out that I could search for double blanks.
AND if you are sweet enough to try to teach me, don't go too far our of your way. I also can't seem to learn anything unless I stumble across it on my own. OTOH, if you know how to turn off the grammar underlining for contractions, such as I'm or they'd or hadn't, that would be freaking awesome.
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