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>From my POV as someone who has to deal with writers and non-writers potentially
working on docs, the biggest "software design fault" in Word is its default to
creating new styles on the fly and its inability to solidly lock a template
against user changes. Every scheme I've ever tried to create a foolproof
unchangable Word template has eventually encountered someone who is a more
resourceful fool than I can anticipate.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Stephen Arrants" <steve -at- mbfbioscience -dot- com>
> [Stephen Arrants] Not that I want to defend Word as the
> be-all-and-end-all of document products, but in my experience
> most of the problems I've seen with WORD are due to "operator error"
> first and poor software design second. I'm talking about
> people who have used Word for years still using tabs and spaces to line
> up text or not knowing (nor asking) how to use a document
> template to make things easier.
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