Why Microsoft Word must die
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Why Microsoft Word must die
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Re: Why Microsoft Word must die
#2Monopoly or not, it's the only wsywyg text editor I've ever found truly usable. I now prefer Google docs for convenience but it's not quite there yet for composition/edit experience. Hoping for more good alternatives, if anyone has suggestions.
Re: Why Microsoft Word must die
#3The truly irreplaceable product is Excel. It is fraught with quirky bugs and limitations and odd conventions (how many people actually end up storing dates before the magic February 29 1900?), yet no alternative can hold a candle to Excel. On the other hand, there are solid alternatives to the other products in the office suite
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#4I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of writers were less technically savvy, happiest writing in Word, or simply wouldn't know how to write in any other format. It makes sense from the publishers point of view to pick one format and stick with it, so they have a consistent editing style and ability, and only have to deal with converting one format into a final publication.
I do feel that this is one of those cases where you should be able to write in the way you feel best for you, and if the publisher insist on having the final document in a word format, it should be straightforward to convert your chosen representation to theirs. It's hard to say without knowing precisely how the publisher expects the file to be formatted, but if it's fairly straightforward, there are libraries that will write to doc files for you, or there are open formats that MS Word already knows how to convert into .doc files that you could target instead.
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Re: Why Microsoft Word must die
#6Monopoly or not, it's the only wsywyg text editor I've ever found truly usable. I now prefer Google docs for convenience but it's not quite there yet for composition/edit experience. Hoping for more good alternatives, if anyone has suggestions.
I'm not sure it is still a problem nowadays but until some months ago if you used the zoom function of the browser Google docs had very bad problems rendering and managing your input.
Re: Why Microsoft Word must die
#7Monopoly or not, it's the only wsywyg text editor I've ever found truly usable. I now prefer Google docs for convenience but it's not quite there yet for composition/edit experience. Hoping for more good alternatives, if anyone has suggestions.
It depends on what you need. I just use a text editor for a lot of purposes. For writing a long complex document, I really like Scrivener on the Mac--but that's mostly for creating content prior to entering into a formatting/publishing phase. For creating a typical 1-10 page formatted document, Word is fine. But show is Libre Office for the most part.
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#8Government forms served as Word documents with complex table-based formatting and "fields" made out of underscores are truly the worst.
They are sadly ubiquitous throughout Eastern Europe, much like mathematics typeset using Word and MathType.
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#9The truly irreplaceable product is Excel. It is fraught with quirky bugs and limitations and odd conventions (how many people actually end up storing dates before the magic February 29 1900?), yet no alternative can hold a candle to Excel. On the other hand, there are solid alternatives to the other products in the office suite
How much would it take to replace Excel with an open source alternative? $100K? $1MM? There has to be a dollar amount where you can buy enough developer time to replace it.
Re: Why Microsoft Word must die
#10The truly irreplaceable product is Excel. It is fraught with quirky bugs and limitations and odd conventions (how many people actually end up storing dates before the magic February 29 1900?), yet no alternative can hold a candle to Excel. On the other hand, there are solid alternatives to the other products in the office suite
> there are solid alternatives to the other products in the office suite
Are you sure? Does it not strike you as odd that OpenOffice/LibreOffice still haven't managed to replace Word?