Re: Luddite defined

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

At 10:49 AM 10/1/99 -0400, leslie bialler wrote:
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>Quite so. I realize that nobody on the list wants to destroy anything,
>but I am perplexed by those who create workarounds (often ingenious)
>that will allow 3+ to do things that were _built in_ to 4. If 3+ does
>everything you want it to do, well and good. But if you're looking for
>things such as (but not limited to) wildcard search and replace, why not
>just bite the bullet and upgrade instead of spending hours in "one room
>in LA with a matress on the floor" (Don Imus on Matt Drudge) whacking
>away at XPL to reinvent an inferior version of the wheel?

Because I've spent hundreds of hours creating macros in 3+ that work fine,
and I'd have to rewrite them and debug them in 4.

Not that it wouldn't be *fun* to learn 4, to say nothing of SmartWords, but
right now I'm forced to learn Word for Windows (I'm in luddite version 6.0)
in order to be able to edit documents from my clients.


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