Clippy Tells All

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Usually with Microsoft Word, what you see is what you get. If you make a change to a document, then that is what you see when it gets printed out. But in fact, in many cases it is what you cannot see at first glance that proves more interesting.

Why the British Government is dropping Word in favour of Acrobat.

Comments

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I prefer "Notepad" :)

Scott

Notepad ?

[bobbain.livejournal.com]

Some of us use "edlin" and "vi". The speeling cheqquers not too good but they werk.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I cling to good old WordPerfect: It's "reveal codes" function, which permits you to go in and take out extraneous formatting and other information.

Never mind "sensitive" information - Word produces documents that are bloated beyond belief!

[victory-rose.livejournal.com]

Ooh, another WordPerfect user - which version do you use?

This just confirms my belief that Word is evil!

[kightp.livejournal.com]

After using 6.0 forever and ever, I just switched to 8 during an upgrade to Windows XP. So far it's not too annoying.

[skipai.livejournal.com]

Sorry but the British Government is full of prats who don't know what they are doing. :)

Being British gives me the right to slag off my own government >:)

[tiado-ab.livejournal.com]

Heh, "What you don't see is what you get" is what I call it, there is so much extraneous formatting in a Word Document file that there's no wonder why file sizes start at around 30 KB.

I'll stick with plain text and WordPerfect, thank you.

[victory-rose.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, another WordPerfect user!

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I use Word to format most of my reports, but I export them to Acrobat for the final product. For one thing it (usually) produces smaller documents, and it also makes it a bit tougher for the recipient to make a couple of changes and claim the work as his own (that's rare, but I've had it happen).

[pipibluestockin]

Heh.

If you want to listen to a lawyer laugh his ass off - send him a contract in Word.