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Re: output [message #34480 is a reply to message #34430]

Thu, 20 March 2003 09:45

Pavel Romashkin
Messages: 166
Registered: April 1999

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I know that defending Word would attract fierce fire upon me.
But in 1997, I realized when putting together a very complex document
that MS is not stupid by any means. Word has more features than most
people realize. And Word XP is even more advanced that W97.
You can have static pictures that stay on the page in a given position,
and text will "flow" around them. You can (as you do, it is the default)
attach pictures to text anchors and pics will "flow" with the text, and
yes, then they will disappear sometimes.
You can also add captions, automatically with incrementing Figure
numbers, and this is pretty sophisticated.
But it does take a while to figure it all out.
And if you wanted to open VBA and go in there, you can see how it is all
done and do even more.
I will stop here. But the Empire is not stupid and its Word is not so
much of a POS as most people tend to say.
I think that frustration people express is from the fact that MS ships
Word with lots of stupid features aimed at absolute beginners enabled by
default. And they disable most of advanced features by default. And
advanced users never look for them just because they hate the Empire's
guts by default.
Cheers,
Pavel

Surendar Jeyadev wrote:
> I do not mind the empty boxes, but I do
> hate Word (among a million other reasons) when the inserted 'picture'
> is moved to heaven knows where because I decided to add a comma
> somewhere in the text. When there are no captions attached to the
> figures, divining which empty box is which is pretty much impossible.
> For this reason alone I would like a preview, however bad. Where can
> I find a way to doing this? I do not want to create a PDF to the Word
> document every two minutes to rearrange it, only to have side effects
> ..... arrrgh!

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		output By: tomson on Mon, 17 March 2003 19:47
		Re: output By: MKatz843 on Thu, 20 March 2003 09:55
		Re: output By: jeyadev on Fri, 21 March 2003 12:47
		Re: output By: Pavel Romashkin on Thu, 20 March 2003 09:45
		Re: output By: jeyadev on Fri, 21 March 2003 12:37
		Re: output By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 19 March 2003 17:27
		Re: output By: Chad Bender on Wed, 19 March 2003 16:13
		Re: output By: jeyadev on Fri, 21 March 2003 12:30
		Re: output By: jeyadev on Wed, 19 March 2003 15:38
		Re: output By: tomson on Wed, 19 March 2003 00:12
		Re: output By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 March 2003 20:52
		Re: output By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 18 March 2003 20:40
		Re: output By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 March 2003 18:36
		Re: output By: tomson on Tue, 18 March 2003 18:19
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		Re: output By: Chad Bender on Tue, 18 March 2003 18:05
		Re: output By: tomson on Tue, 18 March 2003 18:06
		Re: output By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 March 2003 18:01
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		Re: output By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 March 2003 17:26
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		Re: output By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 March 2003 17:09
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