ms-word, was: Re: anti-word

[Gregory Nowak]

The instances I'm thinking of actually involve formatting. I use the bns for most of my word processing, and I find myself using it's extensive formatting features a lot.
Greg


On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:56:05AM -0500, Amanda Lee wrote:
> Word Files, as is the case with anything in Windows, are unnecessarily
> full of overhead just to convey text.  I like to use Notepad a lot for
> various tasks and it is much faster than Word or even Wordpad which will
> read Word6 format.  So why create extra unnecessary overhead in the first
> place.  If you need to enhance a document with special fonts, formatting,
> etc., then fine but most times, Word is a huge hog.
> 
> Amanda Lee
> Alexandria, VA
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