It's funny. He bitches that MS Word has not improved since 1997. The 1997, hell, the 1990 version, had all the features he is asking for. The features were not hard to learn, and the thing has always come with a manual that is not hard to follow. All they've done lately is mess with the interface and make it so it doesn't freak out on large documents.
creating documents with several sections that can easily be moved around
Outline. Learn styles.
just wants to type most stuff with single or double spacing and a comfortable serif font
Default template. Again, styles.
Does Word, say, have a scratchpad where you can save sections of writing to use later?
How about a second document?
mark where certain thoughts or paragraphs come from that will not turn your text into an unreadable jumble of pink “comments”?
Toggle View Markup to hide the comments.
What bothers most people is the behavior Word exhibits when you use it as a WYSIWYG word processor. It is based on a stylesheet and if you learn to use it that way it will not surprise you.
creating documents with several sections that can easily be moved around
Outline. Learn styles.
just wants to type most stuff with single or double spacing and a comfortable serif font
Default template. Again, styles.
Does Word, say, have a scratchpad where you can save sections of writing to use later?
How about a second document?
mark where certain thoughts or paragraphs come from that will not turn your text into an unreadable jumble of pink “comments”?
Toggle View Markup to hide the comments.
What bothers most people is the behavior Word exhibits when you use it as a WYSIWYG word processor. It is based on a stylesheet and if you learn to use it that way it will not surprise you.
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