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Cheap shot.

"Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote:

Wonder what version of word?
Lawyers. It's always everyone else's fault.

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
: 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.
:
: --
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: Graham Mayor - Word MVP
:
: My web site www.gmayor.com
: Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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:
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: 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
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