[Am-info] Word Processing Features

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In a message dated 2002 February 08 (Friday), timestamp 12:01 PM, 
   on the topic Re: [Am-info] Word Processing Features,
   Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net> wrote:

"|I maintain that macros are not worth the effort of the software
"|company.  Why?  Because, unfortunately, macro users are a huge
"|minority.  I'd bet  less than 5% of word processor users even know
"|what a macro is.

As 95% of word processor users are probably Windows users, your bet is
a safe, even conservative, one.  But I understood Sujal to be
discussing worth to the user, not worth to the software developer.  If
you use a word processor to do anything but the simplest
correspondence (using a template designed by somebody else whose needs
and experience differ from yours), then the ability to shortcut your
tasks through custom macros may be the single most important feature
of a word processor. 


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