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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally
 unsuccessful as an architecture designer?
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:11:17 -0700
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On 9/24/2024 10:17 AM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 8:58:56 +0000, David Brown wrote:
> 
>> On 24/09/2024 05:05, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 0:53:14 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anybody producing large amounts of high-quality, complex textual
>>>> material > (e.g. technical documentation) is inevitably going to
>>>> have to move beyond WYSIWYG tools and adopt some kind of markup
>>>> system.
>>>
>>> I disagree.
>>>
>>> Word is just fine as long as all your drawings are *.jpg.
>>>
>>> What feature do you think is missing ??
>>
>> My experience with MS Word (mainly supporting it and helping others) is
>> that a major missing feature is "can handle large documents without
>> trashing them or exponential growth of file sizes".  Perhaps that's been
>> improved in the last decade or so, but it certainly used to be the case
>> that any Word document of more than about 20 pages was a gamble.  If the
>> same file was edited by people using different versions of MS Office, or
>> on machines where the fonts used in the document were not available, you
>> were pretty much guaranteed disaster.
> 
> I happen to be using Word from Student 2003 CD-ROM
[...]

:^) I still have word 6 and Office Small Business 2007 for an old 
reporting system I made for home inspectors. Uses an Access database. 
Ahhh, I was using visual basic 6.0 for them. Heck the first version of 
the system used word perfect 5.1.