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Time to Kill Microsoft Word?
Allnighterking writes "Apparently the frustration with another Windows Product is starting to reach increasingly visible users. John Dvorak over at ABC News is starting to question if it's time to kill Word With Viable options like Open Office.org available for Windows as well as AbiWord and others. Since they are both using XML as a way to create the documents. Or perhaps dropping a separate application altogether and going with something like X Forms to create a browser based office suite."
I use pico when I'm editing something simple, as I'm tired of watching my boss mangle the vi commands and I'm far too lazy to learn "CTRL-meta-cokebottle" crap in Emacs and the ludicrously stupid keystrokes in vi. At least pico gives you a nice little menu and does the stuff you need to do when editing a lousy little config file. You want a small editor with better features than pico? Use Joe's with the pico emulation.
If I'm editing anything over a page or two, I use jEdit or some other "real" editor.
It's amazing how many people want to continue to use crappy tools like vi for spurious reasons like "it's the only one you're guaranteed to find on UNIX" (why would I be searching for it in the first place - I don't want to work on crippled systems that don't have better editors) and "you need it if your system crashes" (bullshit - this is why you carry a boot CD.)
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Sorry, you are a fucktard.
Despite what that link says. Word at one point was going to have a reveal code feature. Microsoft got their asses handed to them in court by WordPerfect.
As a matter of fact, look up Microsoft Word 2.0 Easter Eggs. Like htt://www.eeggs.com/items/5036.html
You will see the Microsoft Warriors slay the evil Wordperfect Reveal Code Dragon.
That is not to say that Microsoft had bad feelings about not being able to use reveal codes...
FUD...pure and simple. Why don't you learn a little about Word?
Idiot.
As you noted, that "line" is a border below the paragraph you added.
I suggest you recommoned that folk upgrade to either Word XP or Word 2003. The autotext/auto-format smart tags are a great interface for understanding the odd things that Word does, even if you're too lazy to look them up yourself.