RE: If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .

["Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>]

<<Word is *not* very good at supporting professional writers who know how to
use computers and who need to generate long, complex documents, especially
people who do serious writing in academic, technical, or scientific
fields.>>

Actually, it does do it pretty well, but you have to put as much effort into
learning it as you would have to in order to learn Frame. But people often
assume one of the following.

- Because Word is so easy to use to produce a simple 2-page document that
looks half-decent, it by definition can't be powerful enough for anything
bigger

- Because Word is so easy to use to produce a simple 2-page document that
looks half-decent, it ought to be almost as easy to make long complex
documents. As it isn't as easy, it must be because Word can't do it at all.

If you make careful decisions about what features you use, decide to use
them consistently, and define your templates properly, there is no reason
why you cannot build stable large documents in Word. In other words, to be
successful, you voluntarily decide to plan your document design as carefully
as you would have to if you were using Frame.

At one time I was responsible for editing a Word document that ran to about
3500 pages of structured text with many tables, and it was perfectly stable.


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