Re: Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/23/2010 12:55 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I have never used word processing programs for much of anything
>> serious, using vim and groff or docbook xml for most things.
>
> I've done lots of documents, documentation, and even some published
> articles in SysAdmin (before it sadly went under), and everyone wants word
> processing docs; up through the end of the nineties, it was all WP, then
> it shifted to *bleah* Word.
> <snip>

I'm not exactly a word processing expert, but I always thought the trick 
to make Word tolerable was to never apply raw formatting to individual 
pieces of text but instead make some styles of your own so you can 
subsequently modify the style definitions and have it take effect 
throughout the document.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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