John Rumm wrote:
Tony Bryer wrote:


shake my head in disbelief. No doubt BillG will tell me that the
answer is to buy Office 2007 - cheap for home users, rip-off price for
businesses who want to be legal.

From a "confusing" POV that may in fact not be a bad idea. The latest
version has a radically different UI that is claimed to be better if you
are learning it from scratch. (not so good if you need to un-learn the
old version first.

I often find it surprising just how poor it is. You can tell that a
large proportion of the userbase must just use it to knock out 3 page
memos and letters. Doing complex techie documents on it is march harder
than in word perfect.


Indeed.

I never use word without managing to turn the air blue.

It has so many invisible hidden formatting gotchas that one is either in
the position of spending hours setting up styles, and adhering rigidly
to them, or not using them at all.

What You See is What you Get, is fine enough, but it would be nice for
once if What You Got was What You Typed, and not what some nerd in
Seattle thought you *ought* to have typed.