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I need to know the strengths and weakness of MS Word for a paper
I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in a class
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I need to know the strengths and weakness of MS Word for a paper
Best way to find out is to use it.. doubtful that you would be able to
expand much on a list of 'for and against'.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User " wrote in message ... I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in a class I am taking. Than I am suppose to articulate five solid ways in how I can use word processing software-MS word in my daily instruction |
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Thanks. I am taking an educational Tech class and we are to evaluate
throughly the software of MS Word. Then we are to idenify and explain at least three strenghts and weakness of the software. Than articulate five soild way in how you might use wordprocessing Ms Word in daily instruction. I have no Idea. "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote: Best way to find out is to use it.. doubtful that you would be able to expand much on a list of 'for and against'.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User " wrote in message ... I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in a class I am taking. Than I am suppose to articulate five solid ways in how I can use word processing software-MS word in my daily instruction |
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I need to know the strengths and weakness of MS Word for a pap
The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we
tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word". -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] " wrote in message ... Thanks. I am taking an educational Tech class and we are to evaluate throughly the software of MS Word. Then we are to idenify and explain at least three strenghts and weakness of the software. Than articulate five soild way in how you might use wordprocessing Ms Word in daily instruction. I have no Idea. "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote: Best way to find out is to use it.. doubtful that you would be able to expand much on a list of 'for and against'.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User " wrote in message ... I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in a class I am taking. Than I am suppose to articulate five solid ways in how I can use word processing software-MS word in my daily instruction |
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Evaluating thoroughly?.. from a list given in here?.. Methinks that you are
missing the whole point of the exercise.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User " wrote in message ... Thanks. I am taking an educational Tech class and we are to evaluate throughly the software of MS Word. Then we are to idenify and explain at least three strenghts and weakness of the software. Than articulate five soild way in how you might use wordprocessing Ms Word in daily instruction. I have no Idea. "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote: Best way to find out is to use it.. doubtful that you would be able to expand much on a list of 'for and against'.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User " wrote in message ... I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in a class I am taking. Than I am suppose to articulate five solid ways in how I can use word processing software-MS word in my daily instruction |
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Agreed entirely. I would just add that Word is hugely complex and an
absolute dream (I speak as one who has used manual typewriters); it can do most things. In my opinion the weaknesses are human ones, in particular relying too much on the spell/grammar check (which sometimes makes ludicrous grammatical suggestions) and also the tendency seen often on here to avoid any suggestion of applying compositional skills by asking others for "templates" (ie what to say and how to say it) for every darned thing. JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word". -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] " wrote in message ... Thanks. I am taking an educational Tech class and we are to evaluate throughly the software of MS Word. Then we are to idenify and explain at least three strenghts and weakness of the software. Than articulate five soild way in how you might use wordprocessing Ms Word in daily instruction. I have no Idea. "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote: Best way to find out is to use it.. doubtful that you would be able to expand much on a list of 'for and against'.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User " wrote in message ... I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in a class I am taking. Than I am suppose to articulate five solid ways in how I can use word processing software-MS word in my daily instruction |
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I like you! :-)
Template requests frustrate me the most because it says "I'm too lazy to start from scratch, modify an existing template, or search for something else and modify that." -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] wrote in message ... Agreed entirely. I would just add that Word is hugely complex and an absolute dream (I speak as one who has used manual typewriters); it can do most things. In my opinion the weaknesses are human ones, in particular relying too much on the spell/grammar check (which sometimes makes ludicrous grammatical suggestions) and also the tendency seen often on here to avoid any suggestion of applying compositional skills by asking others for "templates" (ie what to say and how to say it) for every darned thing. JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word". -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] " wrote in message ... Thanks. I am taking an educational Tech class and we are to evaluate throughly the software of MS Word. Then we are to idenify and explain at least three strenghts and weakness of the software. Than articulate five soild way in how you might use wordprocessing Ms Word in daily instruction. I have no Idea. "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote: Best way to find out is to use it.. doubtful that you would be able to expand much on a list of 'for and against'.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User " wrote in message ... I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in a class I am taking. Than I am suppose to articulate five solid ways in how I can use word processing software-MS word in my daily instruction |
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I need to know the strengths and weakness of MS Word for a pap
Evaluating thoroughly?.. from a list given in here?
Amen to that! I've been using Word almost every day for the last 8 years to write reports and such. I've even gotten into writing macros. And I am _still_ finding out new strengths and weaknesses. There is _no_ list that will give you what you can get from actually *using* the program! (What about the horrible scenario of you listing Word's captioning and cross-referencing as a strength, and then the instructor sets you down on your final and makes you _do it_?!!? If you're going to cheat, it *will* catch you!) Ed "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote in message ... Evaluating thoroughly?.. from a list given in here?.. Methinks that you are missing the whole point of the exercise.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User " wrote in message ... Thanks. I am taking an educational Tech class and we are to evaluate throughly the software of MS Word. Then we are to idenify and explain at least three strenghts and weakness of the software. Than articulate five soild way in how you might use wordprocessing Ms Word in daily instruction. I have no Idea. "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" wrote: Best way to find out is to use it.. doubtful that you would be able to expand much on a list of 'for and against'.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User " wrote in message ... I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in a class I am taking. Than I am suppose to articulate five solid ways in how I can use word processing software-MS word in my daily instruction |
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JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote:
The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word". I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being called Generation M, for "multi-tasking." Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly efficient ways of gathering information. The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it takes too much time. B/ |
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It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to
start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or lists? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Brian Mailman" wrote in message ... JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word". I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being called Generation M, for "multi-tasking." Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly efficient ways of gathering information. The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it takes too much time. B/ |
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The day I need a template for a grocery list, I'm handing in my mom card.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or lists? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Brian Mailman" wrote in message ... JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word". I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being called Generation M, for "multi-tasking." Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly efficient ways of gathering information. The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it takes too much time. B/ |
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Woo hoo!!!
The day you ask for any template, I'm tossing my computer out of the window. I figure if *you* can't do something without a template, I don't stand an ice cube's chance in hell at being able to do it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The day I need a template for a grocery list, I'm handing in my mom card. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or lists? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Brian Mailman" wrote in message ... JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word". I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being called Generation M, for "multi-tasking." Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly efficient ways of gathering information. The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it takes too much time. B/ |
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My point is not that they don't *want* to think, but that they don't
think they have to. They're not lazy, though. They just don't understand why they should take the *time* to think. Thinking takes time. Time they could have multi-tasked 7-8-9 different things. There's always someone to ask for the answer. Someone has already thought, why not just access The Stream (borrowing from an Outer Limits episode)? It's not that they want someone else to do their homework for them, this *is* their version of doing their homework. B/ JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or lists? |
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What really scares me is that your comments make sense.That means I must
have missed my meds. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Brian Mailman" wrote in message ... My point is not that they don't *want* to think, but that they don't think they have to. They're not lazy, though. They just don't understand why they should take the *time* to think. Thinking takes time. Time they could have multi-tasked 7-8-9 different things. There's always someone to ask for the answer. Someone has already thought, why not just access The Stream (borrowing from an Outer Limits episode)? It's not that they want someone else to do their homework for them, this *is* their version of doing their homework. B/ JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or lists? |
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Agreed.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . What really scares me is that your comments make sense.That means I must have missed my meds. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Brian Mailman" wrote in message ... My point is not that they don't *want* to think, but that they don't think they have to. They're not lazy, though. They just don't understand why they should take the *time* to think. Thinking takes time. Time they could have multi-tasked 7-8-9 different things. There's always someone to ask for the answer. Someone has already thought, why not just access The Stream (borrowing from an Outer Limits episode)? It's not that they want someone else to do their homework for them, this *is* their version of doing their homework. B/ JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or lists? |
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Well, I'm not very creative and definitely not a designer, so I find it
helpful to find *examples* to copy, but I am not looking for a readymade template, especially given the poor quality of most of the ones I've seen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . Woo hoo!!! The day you ask for any template, I'm tossing my computer out of the window. I figure if *you* can't do something without a template, I don't stand an ice cube's chance in hell at being able to do it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The day I need a template for a grocery list, I'm handing in my mom card. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or lists? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Brian Mailman" wrote in message ... JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word". I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being called Generation M, for "multi-tasking." Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly efficient ways of gathering information. The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it takes too much time. B/ |
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Examples are different. Personally, I like examples and often search for
them. Templates are a completely different critter. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Well, I'm not very creative and definitely not a designer, so I find it helpful to find *examples* to copy, but I am not looking for a readymade template, especially given the poor quality of most of the ones I've seen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . Woo hoo!!! The day you ask for any template, I'm tossing my computer out of the window. I figure if *you* can't do something without a template, I don't stand an ice cube's chance in hell at being able to do it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The day I need a template for a grocery list, I'm handing in my mom card. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message .. . It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or lists? -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Brian Mailman" wrote in message ... JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word". I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being called Generation M, for "multi-tasking." Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly efficient ways of gathering information. The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it takes too much time. B/ |
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I'm not quite sure how to take that...
B/ JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: What really scares me is that your comments make sense.That means I must have missed my meds. |
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Take it with a wink and a grin. ;-)
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Brian Mailman" wrote in message ... I'm not quite sure how to take that... B/ JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: What really scares me is that your comments make sense.That means I must have missed my meds. |
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JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote: Take it with a wink and a grin. ;-) |
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