Just to add fuel to the [dying] WP fire
Most people don't take into consideration that WP was originally written for
a command line driven OS where such things as Bold, Italic, Sub/Superscript,
etc. could not be displayed on the screen. It wasn't until the doc *didn't
print* as desired that you even knew there were codes in there someplace
that had to then be hunted down. In fact, simple [true] bitmapped images
hardly a reality at the time, let alone graphic effects on text.
Word OTOH was originally written for the Mac OS which provided a graphic
user interface. The need for revealing underlying code structure was
completely unnecessary even if the files has been coded in a similar
fashion. IOW, in a Word doc if you want to tell if text is Bold, *look* at
it... And if you still can't tell click in it or select it and look at the
Bold button on the toolbar - "there's yer sign" - or use one of several
other *plain English* tools rather than a bunch of cryptic codes scattered
from beginning to end& nested within one another. And if you want toremove
the formatting just reverse the same process you used to apply it in the
first place.
Having not only used both (as well as quite a few others) but also having
trained thousands of WP users transitioning to Word I honestly believe I'm
in the unique position of being able to make a most objective observation:
Those who insist that they *need* those codes simply are refusing to learn
something new because it's "different" than what they're accustomed to.
Don't misunderstand - they have every right to object to the change for
whatever reason they may have, but to claim that "whatever it is" can't be
done in Word because you can't get to the codes is pure poppycock
[PS - How are the spaces, Phillip?
]
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
On 7/12/08 2:21 PM, in article (e-mail address removed), "Daiya
Correct, Word *doesn't* use<b> for bold, etc. Many WordPerfect users
miss the ability to "reveal codes" for formatting, because Word just
doesn't work that way.
Phillip Jones wrote:
does that also include such items as<b>b</b> or
b for bold
(subbing i for italic, and u for underline.)
if so wasn't even aware Office could do such . I though the only Word
processor that ver existed for Mac that could do that was Novel
WordPerfect.
Daiya Mitchell wrote:
Field codes shows other stuff, eg { HYPERLINK "
http://foobar.htm" }
for hyperlinks or { PAGE } for page numbers. The ¶ doesn't affect
those, generally.
Phillip Jones wrote:
Umm, I may be dense, But doesn't clicking on the icon of the
paragraph mark do the same thing???
When I click on paragraph mark I see
Paragraph marks
..'s indicating spaces
soft line break indicators (shift return)
Tab markers
and so on, isn't that what you are speaking of?
(e-mail address removed) wrote:
Thanks - it seems OSX commandeers the F9 key so it has to be
reassigned.
