Y'all, Interesting article. It confirms what I have always believed about Word, that it was designed for secretaries, not writers or editors. Writers use something with fewer buzzers and bells, and editors use layout programs. As the author points out, Word suffers from feature creep. Feature creep inevitably leads to code bloat; code bloat inevitably leads to mechanical puns, crashes, and compatibility issues--all the things we have come to hate about Word and love about Xy. I myself use Xy for bulk input, and InDesign for editing (print, epub, and web). PageMaker 6 (forerunner of InDesign) has a good and reliable Xy import filter, so what I write in Xy gets first imported into PM and then edited in InDesign. Its a bit of a detour, but preferable to using Word for anything other than opening docs someone else has sent me.Attachment: thatstupidpaperclip.jpg
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