On 05/03/2012 11:47, Owain wrote:
On Mar 5, 11:23 am, John Rumm wrote:
You mean writing one page letters, three page memos, and documents that
might use high tech capabilities like auto numbering! ;-)

Auto numbering in Word is not high tech.

At least, certainly not well-implemented high tech.

Did you miss the smiley? ;-)

In fact, for all its popularity, word is actually a fairly poor tool for
complex documents IME.

WordPerfect is much better, but still[1] limited when dealing with
things like cross references between documents.

[1] Having said that, I have not used it seriously for a number of
years, so don't know if it has been developed any further.

Which is a major reason why the legal world stuck with WordPerfect for
so long. WordPerfect could auto-number to your heart's desire.

IIRC Microsoft's own legal department used it for years (possibly still
do) - support for "table of authorities" was one killer reason IIRC.


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Cheers,

John.

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