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Read a Good Word Processing Book Lately?

Posted by Cliff on from the software-specific-classes-suck dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I'm a computer lab assistant at a small state college, and as such I help students with their MS Office coursework. This coursework is designed to make them operable in the open market, and help familiarize them with the word processing / spreadsheet environment. Unfortunately, it gives them a one sided perspective from a Microsoft standpoint, and the text is very unclear on the assignments. Are there any suite-independent, clear textbooks on word processing available out there?"

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  1. Re:LaTeX by Planesdragon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Word may be pretty, but LaTeX can do all the same stuff. Really.

    LaTeX can let me open up (or convert) my extant word document and start typing, using keyboard shortcuts or toolbars to denote what exceptions I want, and spit out word counts on demand?

    LaTeX can track changes, spell check, and autocorrect common typoes that I make?

    LaTeX can handle god damn'd em dashes!?

    If so, please e-mail me a good link. If not, please don't say that it can.

    If you want pretty, use Quark or Publisher or Acrobat's product (name?). If you want to write, use Word.