djc wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Rod wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Word is OK for reports and letters. You don't write books in word,
nor do you do graphics if you can help it.

For a program that merely has to place printed words on paper,
interleaved with text, its hugely too complex.

Not sure what the definitive book writing software is..possibly
LaTex or maybe quark...
A lot of the time for the simple stuff the old Write application was
acceptable. Or even, just about, WordPad.

If you are into DTP, maybe InDesign? I certainly have enjoyed playing
around in it.

Mmm. Quark is THE definitive type SETTING software. InDesign is not as
good, but its easier to use.
Quark *was* the default app of choice. They did little in response to
InDesign 1, and the result was later versions are now eating their
client base! Many publishing houses are moving over to InDesign now.

And before that it was Pagemaker. Which was displaced by Quark
because Quark was better for fashionable 'type all over the place'
magazine layouts. Horses for courses and they all gallop up a
dead end eventually.


Golly. I remember page******

Adrian wrote:
Adrian C gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

And with Office 2000 it won't install if that package hasn't been kept
upto date with recent Office service packs. And those are difficult to
find on the MS site, now that MS have dropped support.

A quick google for "Office 2000 SP3" finds the service pack instantly...

Yes, you are right. I was relying on the 'Microsoft Update' tool to fix
someone's installation, and getting hacked off that Microsoft had
discontinued access to something previous called the 'Office Update'
tool which would have scanned and fed in the updates automatically.

Looks like I'll have to get back to that PC and do things manually, but
am more or less thinking that the 'Microsoft Update' tool was telling me
to upgrade instead :-(

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Adrian C

On Oct 16, 9:54*am, Adrian wrote:
Howard Neil gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

Yes, there was a small issue, at the start, where the council's heading
was not converting to Open Office. I found another type face (used by
Open Office) which the council could change to. It was virtually
identical but had a different name. Open Office is certainly opening all
the correspondence they need to read.

Fonts are provided by the OS, not the application.

Some may be provided by the OS out of the box. Others are provided by
the OS once they have been installed *by* the application.

MBQ