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I'm sure you are correct, we should learn how to use Word.

Just for fun, try an experiment. Mention Word, numbering and complex
document to any grad student or working professional who gets paid based on
work product output.

Will you get a smile, or a scowl?

-Cheers

"macropod" wrote:

Hi Don,

Perhaps if you & your staff learned how to use Word correctly, you'd have fewer productivity issues - indeed you might find
productivity increasing.

Given your work situation, the proper implementation of appropriately-formatted templates for the various kinds of documents you
need, plus training in how to use Styles, Autotext and Word's other productivity features, would be a great boon.

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"HAD IT UP TO HERE" wrote in message
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..hmm
Thank you for the reply, but I think you might have been a little sarcastic.
The first thing Works displays is "Brochure" and "Party Invitation" .

"Business" means headers, footers, and citations. Words does have a lot of
features but it tries to be something to everyone. For a multi-level heading
serious document, it is too clumsy, even in the 2008 iteration.

We are going to make a serious effort to find some that "works", pun
intended, including WP.

Thanks
Don Lowrey

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

Microsoft Works 9
http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/default.mspx


"HAD IT UP TO HERE" HAD IT UP TO wrote in message
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MS Word is a Rube Goldberg machine.

I write business documents. I don't write pretty party invitations or have
pastel backgrounds in my docs. I can program in 2 languages plus VBA, and
I'm a tax lawyer. Complex I know.

Nevertheless, I spend half of my time in Word mucking with formatting
instead of drafting. My employees are less skilled, and even after
impelmenting the work arounds posted here; they waste more time formatting
than in doing other document processing tasks.

Word is costing me big bucks in lost productivity.

And it's not just me. No one that I know is happy with Word.
Does anyone know of another product that does numbering, doesn't try to make
me design "pretty"; and lets "not so technical" employees get my work done?

signed
HAD IT UP TO HERE