[kde-linux] system-config-printer

[Randy Kramer]

On Monday 02 March 2009 06:43 pm, david wrote:
> OK, as both a Word and WP power user for many years, I can only say 
that 
> you've never had to figure just where some odd bit of Word formatting 
> applied at a particular point was actually coming from. 

Actually, with 15+ years of using Word for fairly complex documents (but 
ending in about 1999), I bet I have.  Yes, there are bugs and some 
intricacies that take some learning, and yes bullets and numbering were 
"interesting" (but many of the documents I wrote / edited were 
specifications and similar that made extensive use of numbering).  I 
had a few problems (I'm sure--my memory is fading) that I had to use 
some sort of workaround to get right.

> Your statement about the use of styles in wordprocessors is nice, but 
> begs the question of what you do when you inherit a document from a 
Word 
> user who knows nothing about styles because they were taught that when 
> you wanted to make something bold, you just clicked on the magic Bold 
> button. 

That could be a thorny problem.  If they were a potential vendor / 
supplier to us it was fairly easy to correct. ;-) When it was one of 
our own people, that was a more sensitive issue.

> No, Word's lack of WP's View Codes (along with its continued inability 
> to do things that are incredibly easy to do in WP) is still its 
biggest 
> weakness.

Well, I guess we have different mindsets, and I think I'll just agree to 
disagree.

Randy Kramer
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