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"Greg" wrote in message
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You have spent more time
bantering here than it would take to resolve all the issues in your
orginal complaint by following the helpful tips that Daiya provided.

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I seriously doubt that a person could learn Word in 2 minutes,
(...)
I'm not saying DOS was better than Windows, but there
were some great, simple DOS programs that got the job done with a
short learning curve. These simple applications seemed to disappear
when Windows came along, and while Word and other windows
applications will do much more, the end user doesn't always need to
use all these features and then the program becomes an impediment to
getting the job done. I agree it is not practical to use DOS anymore
because for better or worse, the world has moved on to something
different and that's just the way it is. It would be nice if Word had
a default setting that turned all "features" off in the beginning and
then a user could add them one at a time as he learned how to use
them.

Bob

Yesterday I read this anecdote about the autopilot in a certain
airplane (it was in a book about Bash Scripting).
The story was that this airplane had 5 different ways to configure the
autopilot, just to be compatible with 5 other types of autopilot. The
idea was to reduce training time.
Of course, pilots have to know how to operate all equipment, so they
had to learn all 5 ways of configuring the autopilot...

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