Brian Elliott wrote:

> Whinge, whinge, whinge.  :-P  :-)
> They do do it.  You just haven't figured it out.

So, I figured out LaTeX and HTML (not to mention POV-Ray, the Lambda 
calculus, cryptography, inorganic chemistry, and much else besides) yet 
I couldn't figure out M$ Word?

What does this say about M$ Word? ;-)

(Come to think about it, one critical difference between Word and those 
other things is the lack of a *manual*. POV-Ray comes with an excellent 
manual, but Word only offers context help. Not very useful if you have 
no idea how a broad feature is supposed to work!)

>> (In particular, I utterly *hate* sans serif fonts. Yet all these 
>> programs always default to it. GRR! At least Excel lets you change the 
>> default worksheet font; OpenOffice Calc seems to lack any such option...)
> 
> I'd feel sad for you, but I prefer sans-serif.  Particularly for the 
> types of documentation we do most of at work (standards, policy, 
> process, work instruction, system description).  Easier to read and 
> clearer pages than all the serif clutter, which I think is more 
> appropriate to books and promotional material.

I just think sans serif text looks primitive and unsophisticated and 
generally childish. (Arial is almost as ugly as my own hand writing - 
and that's saying something!) Plus I dislike having 3 distinct 
characters with identical glyphs. [Lower-L, upper-I and 1.]

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