I've always been mystified as to how anyone writing more than two pages of simple text with Word could possibly be happy with it.
Its layout engine is woefully poor, to the point of using "heisen-units" when positioning - that is, units which seem to change depending on who's looking. Its performance and stability is awful. I've lost more work to this one product than to anything else, including programs like fdisk and format... And if you have documents with triple figure page counts, you may as well move the coffee maker to your desk for most operations - it'll save you the walk. And lastly, its compatibility is awful. Take an old document of even moderate complexity and load it into a new version, and watch it fail. How can it not even be compatible WITH ITSELF?
Word is fine for two page letters. But for anything else, I'd use... Well, just about anything else. I'd even consider edlin before considering Word...
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Its layout engine is woefully poor, to the point of using "heisen-units" when positioning - that is, units which seem to change depending on who's looking.
Its performance and stability is awful. I've lost more work to this one product than to anything else, including programs like fdisk and format... And if you have documents with triple figure page counts, you may as well move the coffee maker to your desk for most operations - it'll save you the walk.
And lastly, its compatibility is awful. Take an old document of even moderate complexity and load it into a new version, and watch it fail. How can it not even be compatible WITH ITSELF?
Word is fine for two page letters. But for anything else, I'd use... Well, just about anything else. I'd even consider edlin before considering Word...
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Livens up a Saturday evening quite nicely.
Doesn't solve the problem of which editor/word processor I should use though.
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