A Modest Proposal
Your question about "which school should they use as a reference" is
actually a very interesting one.
In my opinion, Word isn't the problem, it's the publishers / schools /
associations who are.
Word provides a set of generic tools which can be perfectly used to design
your own document template with specific page sizes, margins,
(citation/bibliography) styles, ... Unfortunately, the number of publishers
/ schools / associations who are willing to invest a little time in creating
a template following their guidelines is almost non-existent. And it's not
just for Word, they don't provide templates for LaTeX, OpenOffice or any
other text processing package either. In the rare case some template is
provided, it is often made by a 'contributor / student / member' rather than
the publisher / school / association. Some good soul who wanted to help
others avoid the mess (s)he ended up in.
I find it amazing how publishers / schools / associations can seem to get
away with such laziness and arrogance towards their 'contributors / students
/ members'.
Yves
"JoAnn Paules" wrote in message
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Where do you stop?
What about those in the medical fields? Legal, accounting, engineering, to
name a few, also have their own needs. And let's not forget the senior
citizen. Even if they did do a "scholar" version - which school should
they use as a reference?
Everyone does their own thing with Word. There are add-ins available that
will accomplish just about anything you need. There's only so much that
one company can do. The tools you ask about are basically there; you just
need to learn how to use them. And some of the tasks need to be done
manually - you'll never learn how to do it if you depend on a computer to
do everything.
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
"mocha99" wrote in message
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Hi all,
I have been using Word 2007 for a few months now. It's a very versatile
product, but I think its functionalities are very much influenced by the
needs and requirements of business/law/corporate work environments.
What about education/academic environments? I am referring to
undergraduates/graduates/scholars who need to have a flexible and
powerful tool to make citations, quotations with links to the
quoted/cited document etc. What I am suggesting is that MS look into the
requirements of university students and scholars and create or add
functions that help them do what they do when they write a paper, a study
etc.
Is a "Word 200x Scholar" foreseeable in the future? Wouldn't this open a
new market for Word?
Thanks
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