Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

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I have used Word 2007. They tried to fix what wasn't broken. And no, 
they didn't fix either the numbering system or multi-file operations. 
It's still oriented toward smaller documents with less complexity.

I also would avoid it for any XML work. My preference, but their past 
history of munging HTML files in export doesn't inspire trust.

Their new GUI isn't intuitive, The use of icons isn't effective as they 
don't describe all things for all people. There is a very steep learning 
curve, and a lot of frustration. Since they don't use menus you can't 
refer to things easily for keyboard access to dialogs. You basically 
have to find MS's own help listing of keyboard equivalents, and then 
memorize them. It's not user friendly.

Scott

Writer wrote:
> I have to agree with Carla on this point. Although, I'm tempted to amend her statement to say "it would take AT LEAST 25-30% longer". I haven't used the most recent version of Word either, but I'm sure if things had improved, I'd have heard about it through the grapevine.
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> Nadine
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> --- On Thu, 4/9/09, Martinek, Carla <CMartinek at zebra.com> wrote:
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>> I can make it work in Word, but I can guarantee it will take more time as you are continually "fixing" things that shouldn't have had issues to start with. I estimate that Word docs take 25-30% longer just because of the inherent issues.
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