Re: Can I make Word into a typewriter?

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From: rck (musonthemt_remov_spm_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:38:20 GMT

"Greg" <gmaxey@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:1104935576.670712.207720@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

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>
>You have spent more time
> bantering here than it would take to resolve all the issues in your
> orginal complaint by following the helpful tips that Daiya provided.

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I seriously doubt that a person could learn Word in 2 minutes, but your
point is well taken that Ng's seem to attract some people who get their joy
out of personally attacking others who may not agree with them, and thus it
is best to ignore them and get on to solving the problem. I'm not saying DOS
was better than Windows, but there were some great, simple DOS programs that
got the job done with a short learning curve. These simple applications
seemed to disappear when Windows came along, and while Word and other
windows applications will do much more, the end user doesn't always need to
use all these features and then the program becomes an impediment to getting
the job done. I agree it is not practical to use DOS anymore because for
better or worse, the world has moved on to something different and that's
just the way it is. It would be nice if Word had a default setting that
turned all "features" off in the beginning and then a user could add them
one at a time as he learned how to use them.

Bob

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