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??? What's the point to Word 2003?
Good lord -- can't we ever get to a point where we can leave well
enough alone? What is the point to Word XP, and now Word 2003? Word 2000 works just fine. As far as I can tell, these newer versions just have more garbage you have to turn off in order to keep Word working for you, not against you. Rant. *(((({ |
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??? What's the point to Word 2003?
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Good lord -- can't we ever get to a point where we can leave well enough alone? What is the point to Word XP, and now Word 2003? Word 2000 works just fine. As far as I can tell, these newer versions just have more garbage you have to turn off in order to keep Word working for you, not against you. You're going to be surprised in less than a year! Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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??? What's the point to Word 2003?
No need for surprise. The new UI has been extensively documented in Jensen
Harris's blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/). Other links at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/Office12/ -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... *((({ wrote: Good lord -- can't we ever get to a point where we can leave well enough alone? What is the point to Word XP, and now Word 2003? Word 2000 works just fine. As far as I can tell, these newer versions just have more garbage you have to turn off in order to keep Word working for you, not against you. You're going to be surprised in less than a year! Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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??? What's the point to Word 2003?
Word 2002 and 2003 offer a few useful upgrades for some specific tasks,
including the (somewhat flawed) "Book fold" feature to produce booklets. The new Track Changes design (poorly implemented in Word 2002, but much improved in Word 2003), though many users don't like it, was a response to input from publishers who want to be able to track changes without affecting complex page layout. IRM and XML in Word 2003 are very important to large corporate users. For more, see http://www.microsoft.com/office/edit...o/compare.mspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "*((({" wrote in message ... Good lord -- can't we ever get to a point where we can leave well enough alone? What is the point to Word XP, and now Word 2003? Word 2000 works just fine. As far as I can tell, these newer versions just have more garbage you have to turn off in order to keep Word working for you, not against you. Rant. *(((({ |
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??? What's the point to Word 2003?
You'll often find me on your side of the argument. Not this time.
The big news is XML. Do a bit of googling around the net and read some good introductory material on XML, otherwise you risk being seen as sadly out of date and behind the times at work :-) Of course, this will only matter on payday, but on payday it will really matter!! Cheers On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:31:26 -0800, "*((({" wrote: Good lord -- can't we ever get to a point where we can leave well enough alone? What is the point to Word XP, and now Word 2003? Word 2000 works just fine. As far as I can tell, these newer versions just have more garbage you have to turn off in order to keep Word working for you, not against you. Rant. *(((({ -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410 |
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