[Terry Farrell]

All true. Add the 'exact number of lines per page' requirement with line
numbering on the right making it all mind-bogglingly distracting to the user
trying to create a meaningful content.

Terry

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I would be satisfied if the graduate departments of universities would
become educated about what is practically feasible with Word and not
create unnecessary obstacles by imposing standards developed for
typewriters. This is true of courts as well. I've seen students and
lawyers hamstrung by requirements such as indents defined in terms of
spaces, vertical positioning in terms of lines, line spacing required to
be "double" without specifying font size, etc.

I consulted on a court case where one side was accusing the other of
overstuffing a brief because the lawyers used 24-pt Exactly spacing
instead of "double" spacing for 12-pt TNR. I pointed out that "double"
spacing could vary widely from font to font (font size range but not font
was specified by the court). It would have made much more sense to impose
a word count limitation instead of specifying the number of pages and the
line spacing.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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Or they understand little about document structure and readability, thus
creating a ridiculous set of requirements.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
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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.

--
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