[Graham Mayor]

Would you let your staff drive your car without any driver training? Would
you let them loose on tax law without any training? You cannot possibly hope
to get the best from a complex piece of software without learning how to
drive it.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



HAD IT UP TO HERE wrote:
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 ...
..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
...
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