Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Word seems to "suck" more on the easy part 

Yeah. It's gotten to the point where if your dashed-off note isn't justified 
with boldface headings, it's not acceptable. What ever happened to a plain 
old typed letter. Can you imagine giving someone a resume that looks like it 
came out of a typewriter?

Do kids doing grade-school book reports these days have to have all kinds of 
fancy fonts and styles to make it acceptable, I wonder?

> Excel is one of the very few graphical programs that I've actually had
> help from the help system - because it's help documentation is freaking
> good.

I never had something I needed to do with Lotus 1-2-3 that wasn't in the 
first page or two of documentation after asking for context-sensitive help. 
I'm convinced that's what killed Jazz more then Excel did - the help for 
Jazz was the generic useless "enter a formula here" instead of stuff telling 
you what formulas start with the two letters you just entered.

>> Somewhat. Much of that is due to people not installing patches or people
>> not using the system as designed.
> 
> And another much is just the users, which break the security of any
> system :).\

That would be the "people not using the system as designed."  Like, always 
being logged in as administrator.

> I think mostly because the developers haven't seen those features
> necessary (at least yet) and not enough users have asked for them.

I was being rhetorical there. :-)

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