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Should you kick the Microsoft Word habit?
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This chapter from Just Say No to Microsoft looks at our reliance on Word, its shortcomings, and why we should consider word processing alternatives.
If you're fed up with the way Word operates and frustrated by its ubiquity, this sample chapter from Just Say No to Microsoft will warm your heart. In it, author Tony Bove looks at some of the most aggravating Word behaviors, the security risks it poses, tips for 'Word addicts,' alternative word processors, strategies for collaborating without using Word, and details on the movement to stop sending Word attachments. He summarizes Word's flaws this way:
Word is expensive (more than $200 for the stand-alone retail version, as this is written), tends to be a memory hog, and the built-in macro features are inherently insecure, providing an excellent breeding ground for viruses. Documents generated by Word also have the bad habit of hiding extra information (such as deleted text and personally identifiable details about the file author) in their headers. And files created in Word usually aren't readable by other word processing software, because Microsoft keeps Word's document format proprietary.
Title: Just Say No to Microsoft: How to Ditch Microsoft and Why It's Not as Hard as You Think
ISBN: 159327064X
Published: November 2005; No Starch Press
Author: Tony Bove
Chapter: Slay the Word and You'll Be Free
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| Publisher | TechRepublic | File Format | |
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| Date Published | October 2005 | Downloads | 7 |
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