I would appreciate if [AD] tag is removed from the future postings on
this thread. I don't think it is an AD anymore.

Thanks,



On Apr 10, 2005 8:05 PM, Tony Smith <ajsmith@rivernet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Of William Chops Westfield
> > Sent: Monday, 11 April 2005 11:36 AM
> > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> > Subject: Re: [OT][AD] MS Word, was Ideas for books on PIC
> >
> >
> > On Apr 10, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
> >
> > > This was a rather fascinating thread, mainly because it confirms
> > >  my belief in the number of people who know Word.
> > >
> > >
> > Well, it was YOU who said that almost all of the books were lousy,
> > and the manual (what there is of it) is worse, right?
> > How is anyone supposed to learn?  Classes that cost more than the
> > (already pricey) software itself?
> > Huh.  Part if my decision to look for something else was based on not
> > FINDING any reasonable templates.  The "longest" template looked like
> > it was for a school paper, and many of them were aimed at one-page
> > documents like "brochure."
> > So what version of Word are YOU using?  In my "Word X for Mac" (2001),
> > the closest equivalent seems to be File/Project_Gallery, and there's
> > no "Manual" anywhere there.  There are some additional templates I didn't
> > have installed as part of the "Value package" on the CD, but there's no
> "Manual" there, either...
> >
> > BillW
> 
> I'm guessing those templates came with the Word 2000 Pro/Windows. I've got
> all of the WinWord versions installed (95-2003) so I can't be sure.
> 
> I'll stick by my statement that all Word books are horrid (given up
> looking), and I'll add that those courses are a scam.  They all treat styles
> as an advanced topic (ooh, scary), when it's (a) not hard, and (b) the whole
> point of Word.  eg, they teach you that to do bullet lists, you click the
> button of the format bar, rather than use a style.  The fun starts when you
> have to change the round bullets to square ones... at which point the 'Word
> sucks' cry is heard.
> 
> I wasn't joking when I recommended the Dummies book - that's what I learnt
> Word from.  The only Word book I have is the Wrox VBA guide, simply because
> it's the only one.  I haven't read much of it since you don't need VBA to
> get things done in Word (unlike Excel).  It starts off with the author
> carefully explaining what you should not do, then he spends the rest of the
> book doing just that.  Anyway, I usually just record macros and look at
> those to see what's going on.
> 
> The rest I figured out by knowing a bit about publishing, and websites such
> as www.mvps.org/word/.
> 
> Tony
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