Re: Drawings done in Word should stay where you put them

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Well, yes, that's what I meant. Unfortunately, corporate IT decisions are
often made by people who are not necessarily knowledgeable about user needs.
Either that or the users in those environments need lots of automation.
I learned how to use Word in this newsgroup. I would never have known about
styles, or how to format outline numbering, or any number of other really
useful things if I had to rely on what Microsoft chooses to emphasize.
True, there are a few things about styles tucked away in the Help file, but
never is it mentioned that they are central to how Word works.
I have to admit that the "Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the
most votes" foolishness irks me. It is as bad as those "Report this problem
to Microsoft" boxes that show up when a program crashes. Both mislead the
user into thinking Microsoft is responding to their problems and concerns.
My point is that Microsoft does not seem to respond to what individual users
say, not even when a number of them say the same thing over the course of
many years.
Don't get me wrong. I think Word is a fine program, very versatile and
powerful after I finally changed enough options that it stopped trying to
help me all the time.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Microsoft does care about user opinion--or at least the desires of
"customers". Unfortunately, the customers they listen to are the large
corporate ones that buy applications for thousands of seats. Specialized
uses of Word tend to be overlooked.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"BruceM" <bamoob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I agree that Word is already bloated and destabilized by idiotic
"features"
and default settings that attempt to guess what you are trying to do.
Word
is a versatile and powerful word processing program, but some of its best
features are hidden and nearly inaccessible. Word is probably behaving
exactly as it is designed to do. For instance, only inline graphics are
visible in Normal view. Objects in the graphics layer (those that are
wrapped, in front of text, or behind text) are anchored to a paragraph.
You
may need to lock the anchor, clear the option of having the graphic move
with the text, or take other actions to get the graphic to behave as
needed.
I think the behavior of text and graphics should be much more clearly
documented, and such options as locking the anchor should be more
accessible
than they are.
For my purposes it would be perfectly dreadful to draw an outline and
have
everything stay inside it. There is something called the drawing canvas
in
versions of Word after 2000 that may do what you wish in terms of working
within an outline, but I'm not sure. The point is that your ideal
features
may not be mine. Default options should be adjustable and much better
documented. I could go along with that suggestion. However, I will
never
believe that Microsoft cares about user suggestions, certainly not to the
extent of letting polls guide product development. If they did, problems
that have existed through several generations of Word would surely be
fixed
by now.

"Clive" <Clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I write medical books. It would be very helpful if the draw facility in
Word
was better. There are many facilities but drawings drift all over the
place
and the cursor behaves alarmingly erratically. Ideally one would draw
an
outline and everything would remain in that outline.
If you change the page view, half a drawing disappears - its
uncontrollable!

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