Access is well known as being the anti-database that no one should ever use, but people still think Publisher is still acceptable for producing documents for print. DIE PUBLISHER DIE.
Poll: What's your least favorite component of MS Office
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#22PowerPoint isn't necessarily bad, but 95% or more of the people that use it do a terrible job.
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#23Powerpoint for the bulleted nonsense I see. It's everywhere and the short sentences take away more than convey. You end up confused.
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#24Publisher, as nothing else can open it's crappy files. Such a PITA when someone is trying to migrate to another platform.
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#25The ribbon.
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#26I'm not a fan of any component in particular, well apart from one surprise, so I thought I'd have a rant: Word - separation of content and layout is an absolute bugger to manage. Hard to share and version documents. It's actually hard to write a letter or lengthy document with it if you don't have a template to hand. Excel - utter dog if you need to use it for anything more than trivial and all it does is "ugly" and…
> Word - separation of content and layout is an absolute bugger to manage.
This is the result of the WYSIWYG generation. "Ancient" systems like TeX (and even WordPerfect) did much better with this and got better looking output on balance, but with our newfangled "OOhh! Pretty!" systems, everyone thinks they're a designer. So, we get systems like Word.
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#27I'm not a fan of any component in particular, well apart from one surprise, so I thought I'd have a rant: Word - separation of content and layout is an absolute bugger to manage. Hard to share and version documents. It's actually hard to write a letter or lengthy document with it if you don't have a template to hand. Excel - utter dog if you need to use it for anything more than trivial and all it does is "ugly" and…
> Word - separation of content and layout is an absolute bugger to manage. This is the result of the WYSIWYG generation. "Ancient" systems like TeX (and even WordPerfect) did much better with this and got better looking output on balance, but with our newfangled "OOhh! Pretty!" systems, everyone thinks they're a designer. So, we get systems like Word.
So true. I am an avid TeX user btw. I'm actually addicted to the appearance of Knuth's Computer Modern fonts really though.
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