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RE: Retagging paragraphs in Word (was: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project)
Subject:RE: Retagging paragraphs in Word (was: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project) From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Geoff Hart" <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>, "techwr-l List" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:03:53 -0500
[Geoff Hart sent a densely-packed compendium of useful Word-isms,
snipped here for brevity and to give future archive searchers the
conniptions...]
Geoff, thanks.
Regarding your last remark. It's the gritting of teeth, as much as
anything, that's been giving me these gawdawful headaches... :-)
In the several years since we got bought, I haven't started a single
document in Word. It's all been docs that I've inherited one way or
t'other.
The one or two that I did create, I did in OOo. If I needed to hand off
to anybody in modifiable form, I exported as .doc, and have had no
problems... but then I would have started off in OOo rigorously using
styles for everything. That's not the case with the inherited docs.
Regarding those inherited Word docs... y'know that dictum about never
attributing to malice what can be explained by simple ignorance? Well
I'm not entirely persuaded.
Ahem.
Kevin
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