Re: I hate Word
From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com)
Date: 06/16/04
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:30:07 -0700
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:11:06 -0700, Tim Wescott
<tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote:
>John Larkin wrote:
>
>>
>> Microsoft Word is an annoying mess, so I mostly don't use it. I create
>> most everything using Edit, in plain text; this is compatible with
>> pre/post processors, assemblers, compilers, PCB netlists, parts lists,
>> all sorts of useful stuff. Variable pitch fonts *don't* work for this
>> sort of thing.
>>
>> But my business folks insist in publishing manuals with all the silly
>> Word fonts and features... looks like it was typed in a bordello by
>> the time they get through with it. And they get annoyed when I give
>> them text files to start with, because of all the hard carriage
>> returns that they have to manually remove before they can proceed to
>> tart up the document.
>>
>> So: does anybody know of a way to import sensible text files into
>> Word, and then automatically remove the hard returns, preferably in,
>> say, one highlighted section at a time? That would get them off my
>> case a lot. It would seem to be an obvious thing to do, but I can't
>> find such a tool in Word.
>>
>> Did I mention that I hate Word?
>>
>> John
>>
>
>Make a script or write a little console app that deletes any isolated
>linefeed, leaving only the doubles behind. If you use an editor like
>Codewrite this'll be easy, or you can use sed, perl, BASIC, etc.
Steve's little search/replace thing works, and does only highlighted
sections, which is useful; some stuff needs to be left alone. There's
a list of maybe 20 pieces of software I should become proficient with,
and Word is very low on that list.
I now know two people who actually like Clippy.
John
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