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Commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
I work on academic non-fiction as a free-lance copy-editor, and use Word for the reasons adduced above. Following on from Comment 64 above: while the move to on-screen editing has saved time in the type-setting phase, it has increased the...

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scentofviolets commented on
CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
I prefer 'hlepful' because it reminds me of 'heffalump'....
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paws4thot commented on
CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
My Office 2010 (not just Word; I use Access and Excel too) experience was somewhat improved by the discovery that ctrl+key shortcuts still work, and by someone telling me about the customisable quick access toolbar (File -> Options -> Quick Access Toolbar)....
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the other rob commented on
CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
I have a copy of Smartsuite somewhere, dating from the Windows 95 / NT 4 era that will, iirc, run on XP. Vista breaks a lot of software from that era, though, so it likely won't run on anything newer. Your best bet is probably a temporary install on an XP box and convert the docs to another filetype. There are still plenty of XP machines in use, so you're bound to know somebody who has one....
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anglebracket commented on
CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
Publishers hate Word just as much as everyone else. Really, trust me on this. But they love the power that change tracking gives them, and the idea of going back to proofreaders' markup simply isn't going to happen, as you well demonstrate. But Word is ugly, unreliable, cumbersome, and prone to sulking. The bad news is that most other editors are nearly the same, especially those which try to mimic Word. The good news is that HTML5 (and/or/EPUB3) is going to be the file format which will save humanity*, so expect to see a lot of editors start offering it,...
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zhochaka commented on
CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
I can now confirm that the current version of LibreOffice will read .lwp files produced by the Millenium Edition of Smartsuite....

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