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Re: output [message #34567 is a reply to message #34480]

Fri, 21 March 2003 12:37

jeyadev
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In article <3E79FE1D.9B03D4C2@hotmail.com>,
Pavel Romashkin <pavel_romashkin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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)

I do not want to engage in a discussion over Word, but I am aware of
these features. I am aware of text boxes which can keep your figures
and captions together, instead of flying off in separate directions
when you edit the text. But, the trouble is, the textboxes themselves
can move to anywhere they like if the added text sends the anchor,
or the frame past the 'current page'. I am not joking when I say
that I once added a single comma to the text and had a twenty two
page document *completely* rearraged! I still keep it to as it is
one of the most entertaining demos I have shown!!

> 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.

Know that.

> 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.

Afraid that I have to disagree ....

> 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.

Mine is learned trait!
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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
		Re: output By: tomson on Tue, 18 March 2003 18:12
		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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