Re: How to keep Word from messing with me?

From: JE McGimpsey (jemcgimpsey_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 01:10:53 -0600

In article <1gjx635.1ydikgg1s14mxgN%matt@tidbits.com>,
 matt@tidbits.com (matt neuburg) wrote:

> The first rule of teaching is to listen more deeply to the questioner
> than his words; you must figure out what he *really* wants to know, for
> that is the very thing he does *not* know.

I agree. But that's *only* a first rule. There are others, many of which
are more important.

That's why suggesting something that explicitly does *not* do what the
OP asks, is, based on *my* teaching experience, exceedingly likely to be
ignored, along with the rest of one's suggestions, no matter how deep an
insight one has gained into what the OP really needs. Hence my question.

FWIW, what is a "clear implication" to you in the follow-on, is not at
all clear to me. Perhaps that's because I read the sentence

> I know I've seen the option somewhere, but I can't find it now.

as implying that the OP is competent to evaluate the effect of "the
option", rather than "express(ing) it clumsily".

Also, given the OP's

> I totally get styles. I hate macros. I hate multiple templates. I
> donšt want palettes.

it's not obvious to me that the OP is maladroit, as it is
to you ("unless he is an adept...which, from the rest of his letter, he
obviously is not").