On 23/11/14 7:45 PM, David Rosenthal wrote: > So I was wondering: has anyone, >> professional writer or professional whose trade depends on >> writing long takeouts, such as attorneys -- jury-rigged MsWord to >> behave similarly to XyWrite, or, more realistically, written up a >> whitepaper on how to strip the program of all the superfluous >> bells and whistles. I find the save-as (export) functions of MS-Word impossibly wordy. Saving an MS-Word document as RTF, XML, or HTML generates such a flood of useless formatting code that I usually just save-as plain text and do all my formatting in Xy instead. The other direction, from Xy to MS-Word is easier. One can replace the Xy formatting (bold, italic, indent, etc.) fairly easily with HTML tags (a few strategic save-gets will pre-off-load much of this work), and a final brush-up with ChangeVerify to clean up the last few bits will accomplish this with little fuss. MS-Word can then import HTML files and re-format them for MS-Word output. Be prepared for massive file size bloat. Removing the buzzers and bells from MS-Word ... One can simplify the GUI by turning off the "ribbon" and hiding the tool bar (see screenshots), but switching off the code running in the background is not on the menu.Attachment: Screen shot 2014-11-24 at 11.05.28 PM.png
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