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RE: Real World Advantages of Office / Word 2007 and Windows 7
Subject:RE: Real World Advantages of Office / Word 2007 and Windows 7 From:"Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com> To:Ben Davies <bdavies -at- imris -dot- com>, "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>, Paul Hanson <twer_lists_all -at- hotmail -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 7 May 2012 18:01:49 +0000
I find the discussion perversely heartening. The more TWs there are who resist learning new technology, the better my prospects for continuing and lucrative employment.
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Subject: RE: Real World Advantages of Office / Word 2007 and Windows 7
This discussion is disillusioning. Sounds like the biggest issue people have with Word 2010 is actually having to learn how it works, and where menu items are located. And to me that boils down to being old school and resisting change and refusing to learn new things. As a technical communicator, learning new things and new software is part of the job, is it not??
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