Which is exactly the complaint I have when trying to add to my document using Word. But enough people have sympathized with me over Word's shortcomings that I guess I needn't belabour the point.
...But maybe I will anyway, to this extent: With each new PC I shell out real money for a copy of the real MS Office, including Access. But long ago I took up the habit of teaching each new PC to default to WordPad for .rtf documents, and that's what I use to write one- or two-page documentation on simple commands and utilities. I've been saving Word for the more ambitious stuff, especially if it involves chapter headings and cross-references. Now that I think I'm giving up on that, I guess Word is relegated to reading MS .docx documents that others send me. I can't think of anything else I'd want it for. I really miss WordPerfect. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. -Samuel Adams */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 14:49 Oddly enough, one of the reasons that I use markup languages is that the documents are easy to maintain; adding text doesn't break formatting. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Matt Hogstrom [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 9:51 AM In my travels I've not seen anyone use Libre Office or LaTeX; I'm not knocking them but if they are not widely used who will maintain the doc later when we all retire? When considering authoring docs like programs we need to consider the downstream consumers / maintainers so I'd go with the popular tools of today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
