[ILUG-Social] word processors rant..

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:46:35PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Donncha O Caoimh thought:
> *ggrrrr*
> 
> How the hell do office worker who have to type up docs in Word or other
> WYSIWYG editors stand the frustration? 
> 
> I've just spent the last while battling with Staroffice (I would pick on
> Word too if it ran on Linux!) trying to get it to number a column of
> points, what complicates things was the indented columns. Eventually I
> got it right, and saved as in the native sdw format, but saving it in
> Word format seems to screw up the numbering.. 
> 
> I wouldn't mind if I could use a text file but it's going to Windows
> users who like stuff in Word format..
> 
Lay it out as a text file, save it with a ".doc" extension, They probably
won't know the difference!

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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)