Death to Microsoft Word - 0 views
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MicrosoftWord productivity change publishing GoogleDocs
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Apr 12
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Nowadays, I get the same feeling of dread when I open an email to see a Microsoft Word document attached. Time and effort are about to be wasted cleaning up someone's archaic habits. A Word file is the story-fax of the early 21st century: cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology. It's time to give up on Word.
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A Word file is the story-fax of the early 21st century: cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology.
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For most people now, though, publishing means putting things on the web. Desktop publishing has given way to laptop or smartphone publishing. And Microsoft Word is an atrocious tool for web writing
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Word is defeated by the basic job of contemporary writing and editing: smoothly moving text back and forth among different platforms