Re: [PLUG] questions on an office-wide conversion

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

Jason Costomiris wrote:


> : > figure out how to do anything.  It's a stinking typewriter for crying
> : > out loud!  You wonder what a button does?  Point the mouse at it and
> :
> : Very much more than a typewriter, actually. Especially for non-computer
> : people to figure out.
>
> How do you figure that?  When I start up Word, Abiword of KWord, I get
> a window that shows me what looks like a piece of papers.  I start
> mashing keys, and look at that!  Letters, numbers and symbols start
> appearing..  How is that not like a typewriter?

Maybe windows notepad with word wrap turned off is "like a typewriter".

I don't consider cut & paste, word wrap, bold & italics advanced 
features, but you can't do them with a typewriter.
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