![]() doc quote: quote:Originally posted by simifilm:Anyone who acutally likes Word has a serious problem because he's accostumed to a completely broken, unlogical workflow (people who think they like Word, normally have no idea what a wp is actually supposed to do, which is making your life easier. Which is often enoughquote: RTF simply doesn't maintain all of the formatting one might use in a document. If you don't rely on track changes, there's absolutely no reason to use Word.quote: PDF is not an acceptable document exchange format for anything but read-only uses. That's true, but then, that's the only reason to use Word. Nothing but genuine Word does this well-if at all. That means "track changes" will have to work correctly. Unless your wife is a solitary academic, she'll be exchanging documents with other people for review and comment.Quote:Originally posted by Andgarden:A few points: I defy anyone to defend it as anything less than fundamentally broken. I like it okay, but I've had it with its crapola styles system. For another, not everyone wants everything that Word folds into one of its documents - increasingly in publishing I'm seeing calls for manuscripts in RTF.I use Word. Perhaps first and foremost, there is that handful of unpatched exploits for Word that exists across both platforms - I don't have the URL to the Microsoft website, but I trust most folks here can find it. In general, I stay out of the word processing wars - and so I tend to ignore pot shots like this one (and the ones that preceded it) - but I did want to point out that increasingly folks are realizing the advantages of RTF (and/or PDF) as an interchange format. If you want to share files with people (work or friends), you may as well use the same program they're going to use. They use Word, either on a Mac or on a PC. Quote:Sure, you can beat yourself senseless and make her use a "more superior" word processor, but the rest of the universe doesn't use Mellel, or Nisus. ![]() Before going to much further, I'd check with the wife: Does she really want a different word processor? I know I could show my wife a different one, but she'd still end up using Word anyway.Office isn't that bad, and it's what everybody else uses. ![]() If your wife is one of a lucky few who only wants to write a document and then print it out, and never share documents electronically, then sure, go ahead, make her use something else. Even if she can manage to work on her own with a non-Word word processor, what's going to happen if she works in a MS Office environment some day in the future? At least she'd already be familiar with the feature set, and wouldn't be struggling to figure out how to do something in Word that was simple in Mellel. If you've got to work on documents others have worked on, at least Word has all the features they'd expect, since they probably wrote it on Word. Buy more ram if you're worried about paging out (I'm not sure why you are, wouldn't you want your OS to drop your word processor memory to disk so you can work in Photoshop or Mathmatica?).Sure, you can beat yourself senseless and make her use a "more superior" word processor, but the rest of the universe doesn't use Mellel, or Nisus. I'd let her use Word, if word is what she uses.
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