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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More Word gripes (SUMMARY)
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Date: 23 Feb 90 18:58:35 GMT
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In article <90053.210038Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu> Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott D. Camp) writes:
|While I admit I was remiss in not finding these answers in the manual
|myself, I would like to ask if my question violated in some sense the spirit
|of this newsgroup?  I received several fairly nasty replies insinuating that
|either 1) I was not a registered owner of Word; 2) I should carefully
|read and memorize manuals more carefully (and when I can't find a topic in an
|index because all software manufacturers use slightly different terminology
|that I should repeat step 2 until I get it right); or 3) I was somehow
|flaming Microsoft Word by questioning whether it had certain features or
|not.

This is all nonsense, IMHO.  It was a perfectly reasonable sort of
question to ask, especially given the Word manuals.  Responses like 1
above are simply out of line, and those like 3 are irrelevant.  A
reasonable response could range from a simple "You can do it, it's in
the manual" to a full description of the steps--and responses of these
types were in fact posted.  If you don't feel like doing that
much, don't do anything (which is my approach 90% of the time).

Grump.	/JBL
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