I hate MS Word
Nov. 13th, 2001 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioWord is not my choice of word-processing software. (The magnitude of that statement is comparable to that of "pork chops are not my choice of meal".) But sometimes I need to edit a document that someone else wrote, and 90% of the time it's in Word.
Today's annoyance: there appears to be no way to validate all xrefs in a document. You can go to an individual xref and say "update", and if it's broken (target no longer exists) you'll get an error, but what I *want* to be able to do is check *all* of the xrefs in a document and be told about ones that are broken. What actually happens if you do a doc-wide update is that it inserts error messages into your document where the broken xrefs are but doesn't tell you about them. So you have to page through the blasted doc looking for them -- there's not even a "search for xrefs" command to mitigate.
I just split a document into two separate documents, and this aspect of it is being a bloody nuisance.
Today's annoyance: there appears to be no way to validate all xrefs in a document. You can go to an individual xref and say "update", and if it's broken (target no longer exists) you'll get an error, but what I *want* to be able to do is check *all* of the xrefs in a document and be told about ones that are broken. What actually happens if you do a doc-wide update is that it inserts error messages into your document where the broken xrefs are but doesn't tell you about them. So you have to page through the blasted doc looking for them -- there's not even a "search for xrefs" command to mitigate.
I just split a document into two separate documents, and this aspect of it is being a bloody nuisance.
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Date: 2001-11-13 01:00 pm (UTC)If you're really looking to dump Word (don't blame you in the least), I recommend the Staroffice Beta. I used it for about a month b4 my Win2K system died, and I really liked it, as it opened up docs both at Work and Home. It's even able to handle the revisional system.
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Date: 2001-11-13 01:06 pm (UTC)That would make it too easy, it appears. :-(
If you're really looking to dump Word
At a personal level, yes and thank you for the pointer. In this case, though, I'm dealing with shared documents at work where other people are using Word, so I could only use something else if it were completely Word-compatable.