![]() No need to learn any command-line programs, formatting \Syn\, or keyboard shortcuts. All accomplished with a few clicks of the mouse. Indent the first line by X inches, double-space here, single-space there? Check. Who cares if it's consistent, the boss wants it bold so just make it bold. Certain words need to be in a different font? Check. Certain words need to be italicized or underlined? Check. Type a few more words, make some typos, have them fixed automatically? Check. Type a few word, hit "Save", and automatically get reasonable default fonts and margins? Check. Yep, the kind of Big Business that uses Java classes like EnterpriseBusinessInterconnectInterfaceFactoryFactoryFactory. ![]() Microsoft probably consulted with a bunch of Big Business customers when they designed Office. ![]() ![]() It was designed to help office workers produce business documents (a) quickly, (b) in a format that integrates with all the other programs in the Office suite, and (b) in conformance with whatever formatting and workflow requirements their employer already had in place. Microsoft Word was never designed to be an ideal tool for creative writing, programming, or any such thing. Microsoft Word is a tyrant of the imagination, a petty, unimaginative, inconsistent dictator that is ill-suited to any creative writer's use. ![]()
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