Office & productivity software: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use?
- 10/3/07 4:58 PM
Word: for compatibility and familiarity
by david.llewellyn - 10/4/07 10:56 PM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have always used Word and will continue to do so for two reasons: compatibility and familiarity. The same goes for the rest of the Office suite: Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
I find it very important to know that documents that I create can be read/used by everybody else, in electronic form, sent by e-mail.
Also, I have been using Office since it first appeared, and I know it quite well. I am very reluctant to have to learn another tool to do the same job, as I need to do the job, not learn something else. As an example in a slightly different context, I am antagonistic towards a Mac because I cannot use it (I have tried several times), just because it is different from a PC. And I do not want to have to take the time to relearn something that I has taken me many years to learn.
Office 2000, why upgrade?
by dukhalionite - 10/5/07 3:46 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've been using Office 2000 since I bought it, why would I need to upgrade? If You are a "normal" user, the newer versions have nothing new that You need. The same is beginning to apply to most software. They already have all the features that You actually NEED. All the bells and whistles are just a waste of money and computer resources. All the fancy displaycandy was the first thing I disabled when I installed XP, and I've disabled a lot of resourcewasters from Office too. And as for Vista...., who is it for? Bosses and kids who like glittery stuff?
Star Office/Open Office
by 22delta - 10/5/07 6:54 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have Word on PC. Have been using Star Office now updated to Open Office on my laptop. For light use, the free stuff has worked fine for me. J2
There are places to cut corners, and places not to cut.
by dominoetx - 10/5/07 7:25 AM In reply to: Star Office/Open Office by 22deltaThe file cabinet I store my papers in costs me more than my software suite. So does the desk I use and the credenza, but the fact is, any desk or cabinet will do if I want to cut corners. This is not so with a software suite. When I hire people, if it gets down to two people and one came from an MS Office environment and another from an Open Office environ, I'm always going to hire the one with MS Office experience. And you folks that are wanting your employers to switch to some off-brnnd are not thinking that wasting your time to become proficient on it will only hurt you if you have to look for a job at a new company. Why? Because 90% of them use MS Office. There is that 10% that just wants to be different, and that is why Open Office exist. It is not so much that MS is better than everything as much as it is the universal software, and that is important for business.
Word 97 = Word 2007
by brike - 10/5/07 2:12 PM In reply to: There are places to cut corners, and places not to cut. by dominoetxWith a few changes (some for cosmetic reasons, but very few for the sake of enhancement) Word 97 has remained in the game up until Word 2003. I have now been trying Word 2007 - A lot of the content that is NOT there anymore (templates) used to be in Word 97. If you have no Internet connection or a slow modem connection (don't tell me it does not exist anymore, please), you cannot produce anything based on templates, since they are all on the Microsoft site. That part also sucks.
Word
by dthomas400 - 10/5/07 11:43 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I agree with the evaluation of Word 2007, to many changes and the learning curve is a little burdensome. I'd like to move back in time, but cannot.
Microsoft Word 97: I've grown accustomed to its face
by CarefreeGG - 10/5/07 2:32 PM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Once you learn how to tie your shoelaces, you don't need to be taught a different way. Same goes with software...
beehive hairdo!
by briegull - 10/5/07 3:14 PM In reply to: Microsoft Word 97: I've grown accustomed to its face by CarefreeGGI used to call it the "beehive hairdo" syndrome. Back in the 60s the teased hair on top of the head was all the rage for young women. Trouble is, 30-40 years later there are still some wearing that hairstyle. When I was a kid, back in the 40s and 50s, there were still some women who wore the hairstyles of the 'twenties. THEY DIDN"T WANT TO CHANGE!!! THEY DIDN"T WANT TO TAKE RISKS!
And here we have people - YOUNG people - who say, I've been using Word for all of my 17 years and I'm not going to change. Good lord, people, if you can't try out something new when you're young, when WILL you try? I can certainly understand people who say "my boss buys x product so that's what I use." But if you're buying on your own dime, at least CONSIDER something that doesn't cost several hundred dollars! and spend the money saved at iTunes. Or are you still buying CDs because you don't like change?
As has been said before in this discussion, a) Open Office is FREE. It can be downloaded. TRY IT OUT! before you judge it. The CURRENT version, not one from 2-3 years ago. AND: b) Explore it a little. You won't break it. But you will find that you can BY DEFAULT save all your files in Word's .doc format, so everyone else can read them, and you can set your default in Windows to OPEN files with OO as opposed to Word.
-Briegull
Poll: Which word-processing software do you use?
by hikergirl - 10/5/07 4:16 PM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have MS Word 2003 but, oh, how I miss Word Perfect! Some things, such as: double indent, search and replace, reveal codes, header/footers that one can actually place where they are to begin, etc. Mr. Gates must have thought he was inventing a new mousetrap - it just pales in comparison to Word Perfect.
Disagreeing with 22Delta
by brike - 10/5/07 4:56 PM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by hikergirlLately, with PCs not coming equipped with MS Office anymore, employers in small and medium size companies already are looking for other alternatives (MS did not change format for nothing). One basic requirement is that it be compatible with MS Office. The place I work for uses StarOffice and Linux environment mixed with Windows environment (older machines). Documents created for business purposes (except in a graphic design environment) are not filled with formats that will be lost from one version of MS Office to another; neither are they filled with clip arts, movie presentations (which are normally done in a more common format), etc. Office suites are used to file letters, memos, forms, and some other simple things. Access is something else, though. But there are other alternatives.
Compatibiltiy is the Key
by Gibsonws - 10/5/07 4:57 PM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I stick with MS because my company does and it is not worth the hastle to fight incompatibility issues. I've given in.
If I did not have to communicate and share with others, I could be more adventuresome. But life is short, why knowlingly go there?
Some of you may be too young to remember longing for software that was compatibile with the home, your friends, and your home. I'm happy we finally got there!
Office 2007 did mix up the game but I have used for a few weeks and see the advantages and the new features.
MS Word
by attilio9 - 10/5/07 5:31 PM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Its OK. I liked WordPerfect better.
which Word Processor? i use WordPerfect
by mnmidnight - 10/5/07 9:55 PM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use an old version of WordPerfect. I think 2000. I use it mostly to cut & paste into email, website posting etc. ( like this) If I need to send a word processing document to someone I save2 versions one is WP format and one in MS word format. I have never had a problem with anyone being able to read something I sent them in MS Word format after I had created it in WP.
I have taken several classes in how to use MS Word, but came back to WP because it has featuresI like that Word does not have(reveal codes being an important example) and the drop down menus in WP are more intuitative/logical to me than the Word's.
Which word-processing software do you use?
by oldlady2 - 10/6/07 5:20 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Corel WordPerfect x3, which will save as multiple versions MS Word. If I plan to use a document as attachment to various clients I save it as a *.doc . I never had a problem. I am an older user of computer software, so will not knock MS WORD. I just don't want to learn a new more expensive program. I do have increasing number of friends who are using suites by openoffice.org or the proprietary version of the same. WordPerfect x3 will save in that format,too. It will be interesting to see which suites become the most popular when converting to Web-based services and software.
WordPerfect
by N.T.Gray - 10/6/07 5:49 AM In reply to: Poll: Which word-processing software do you use? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
There's no question that MS Word rules the corporate world, so you have to know how to use it. And it does some things better than WordPerfect. But I love the Reveal Codes function in WP. It's always on when I work. I also like that with WP you can set a common code such as font name or font size, and the change happens from the insert point to the end of the document. With Word, you have to block the entire section you want to change. (You CAN do that with WP, but you're not REQUIRED to.)
WordPerfect also gives you much finer control over typesetting functions, columns, tables, page numbers, and whatnot. It's just a more functional program if you know how to use it. So much so that with the online courses that my wife is taking, where the document submissions have to be in Word, she creates the document in WordPerfect and then saves it in MS format prior to sending. WordPerfect can easily do some things that are difficult or impossible to do with Word. (Which, in version 2003 anyway, didn't even have a simple Insert Horizontal Line function. I still can't believe that.)
WordPerfect is the most functional word processor around.
NT
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