Re: OT? Ode to Word

["Backer, Corinne" <CBacker -at- GLHEC -dot- ORG>]

Perhaps it's just me, but Mike's comment seems very rude and completely
unnecessary. Could we try to maintain some level of civility and
professionalism on this exchange? I know it would make me much more
comfortable when conversing with my colleagues if they made an effort to
display common human kindness.

Thanks,
Corinne Backer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Starr, Mike (MED)
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 3:07 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: OT? Ode to Word
>
> Hi, Jacque
>
> It appears to me then that your client selected the wrong consultant.
> Someone who knew the tool could have made it jump through hoops just as
> easily as you claim to be able to do with Pagemaker or Quark.
>
> Mike
>
> You wrote:
>
> Date:    Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:45:36 -0700
> From:    Jacque Foreman <foremangraphics -at- JUNO -dot- COM>
> Subject: OT? Ode to Word
>
> Hi All -
>
> I have just finished a document for a client who had to have it done in
> Word so he could modify it at his office. It took approximately 20 hours
> to do what would have taken at most 1-1/2 hour if I had created it in
> either PageMaker or Quark.
>
> I wish I could write a humorous story, but, alas my mind doesn't seem to
> work that way. So instead I am sharing this cathartic poem that was
> wrought out of frustration. If you like it, I also write rhyming speaker
> introductions. --Enjoy!
>
> Ode to Word
>
> Doing things in Word is easy they say
>      But after working with it, I don't see it that way.
> Someone has decided just how things should look
>      After searching and searching, there's no clue in the book.
>
> I finally, after hours, get things just where I want
>      And when I look back, where it was, it is not.
> I look around, and as I'm beginning to rage,
>      I find the copy -- Word made a new page.
>
> I didn't ask it to alter my copy or think
>      But the wizard did this without even a wink.
> So I look in the book and follow directions
>      To keep Word from making unwanted corrections.
>
> But nothing does work as the book says it will.
>      The frames and their copy won't seem to stay still.
> They jump around for no rhyme and no reason;
>      Try as I might there is no way to freeze'em.
>
> But I, who can make PageMaker and Quark jump through hoops
>      Find Word undecipherable and made up of loops
> That allow copy in frames to jump all over the place
>      And move in a flash into undesigned space.
>
> So it is thus that much of my time is wasted
>      On documents where parts don't stay pasted
> In this program I find to be so absurd;
>      Known to all as Microsoft Word.
>
> Jacque, Foreman Graphics - c1999
>
> Jacque - Graphic Designer / Typesetter - Excellence by Design
> since 1972 - Pen & Ink Renderings of homes & Bldgs. & portraits from
> photos, Brochures, Ads, Flyers, Packaging, Business Forms, Manuscripts,
> etc. - Amway Dealer - email: foremangraphics -at- juno -dot- com
> Rendering Samples: http://www.abacus-es.com/foreman
>
> --
> g
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