[mso] Re: Suggestions needed from Word Perfect converts
- From: "Dian Chapman" <dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:41:32 -0500
>But Greg, there ARE times when Word could really benefit from a REAL
>reveal codes ability.
WORD DOES REVEAL ALL...you just have to know how to read it. And if there's
something you don't know...Shift/F1 to learn what's up.
>>For no reason
> whatsoever (I hadn't used line or section breaks AT ALL in the whole
> document) a contract I wrote all of a sudden had a half a page of
> blank in it.
Sorry, but I've heard that for 9+ years. "I didn't do anything and all of a
sudden everything went whack...Word is crap!" Just the other day I heard a
similar complaint. I told the user to send me the doc. Took me all of 3
seconds to turn on the markers and see that they had inserted a column where
they didn't want one...which is why the margins weren't going all the way to
the right.
Another case..."it won't wrap my text and I didn't do anything! I just open
Word, add some text and everything go nuts...Word is crap!"
I get that doc...5 mins later I discover, by turning on markers and checking
the doc...that the user had previously been messing with graphics and
managed to put a box inside the header of her normal.dot. Now had she taken
a little time to RTFM (=Read the fine manual), she would know you should NOT
mess with normal! I removed the textbox that was in her header...that was
set to wrap text and all was fine.
It's JUST a bunch of computer code put together and will do what you tell it
to do. If you tell it wrong...you'll get unexpected results.
Sure...sometimes a bug will cause a problem. But the instance of real bugs
vs what folks scream about as bugs are about = screams/99.9%, bugs .1%. ;-)
Dian Chapman
Technical Consultant,
Microsoft MVP & Instructor
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