[Am-info] Word Processing Features

[Sujal Shah]

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 12:14, T.Guilbert wrote:
> 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

Like many things, 95% of users don't need to know them... several jobs
ago, my company used macros to automatically fill in forms in expense
reports based on a set of simple questions (what project are you working
on and is this billable to the client).  It made life easier for them,
and for the end users.  

I bet you most everyone in that company (and we had some really good
developers there) probably didn't know how to write a Word and/or Excel
macro.

That's why it's under the commonly used section, even though most people
may not see the macros they use.

Sujal


> 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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