> 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? ;-)

I definitely prefer writing in HTML than using any word processor (just 
like I prefer SDL than a graphical modeller). I should learn DocBook.

> (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!)

M$ Office is supposed to be intuitive, so people figure out how to use 
it without reading the manual. Stupid idea in my opinion. People 
intuitively find the Center and Bold buttons, and that's how the Styles 
feature goes unnoticed. And then those same users trying to use POV-Ray 
won't read the manual (because they aren't used to reading manuals) and 
won't get too far :D

I read Microsoft did a poll asking users what features they would like 
for the next version. A *very* large amount of people asked features 
that already exist. Microsoft figured the features were hard to find, 
and that's how we get the new UI on Office 2007. Even if it's easier for 
new users (which I doubt), everyone who already knew how to use Office 
2003 now has to re-learn everything.

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