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Subject:RE: What do you like most about MS Word? From:HALL Bill <bill -dot- hall -at- tenix -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 May 2002 17:09:23 +1000 (EST)
I'll be honest, I am very schizoid about Word. I try to do most of my
writing in pure text (e.g., e-mail), but all my real documents are still
written 100% in Word 97/2000 because that is the only thing I know people
have as a given.
I'm working on a hypertext book, and except for the odd crash (I'm not using
numbered paragraphs either), the hypertext works quite well (except if I
accidentally try to browse for a URL - which kills it dead). I am linking
between documents, within documents and to the Web all relatively
effortlessly, and the limited experiments I have done tell me that I can
preserve (or at least reset) the links in a PDF version, or get it into HTML
where I can clean out most of the cr*p that Word puts in.
Because I am aiming for a frameless web version I'm not doing anything fancy
with formatting, so Word behaves limits itself to the obligatory freezeup or
two a day without causing major corruption.
So far, on my Windows ME/Word 2000 environment at home recovery has also
always worked so I haven't lost significant amounts of work.
At work, on NT and Word 97 (same document!) I rarely crash (weeks apart).
Bill Hall
Documentation Systems Analyst
Strategy and Development Group
Tenix Defence
Nelson House, Nelson Place
Williamstown, Vic. 3016
Australia
Tel: +61 3 9244 4820
+61 3 9244 4000 (Switch)
URL: http://www.tenix.com
Mailto:bill -dot- hall -at- tenix -dot- com
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