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LostInEmulation
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18 Sep 2008, 12:58 am

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It annoys me as well, Microsoft Works 3.0 had a preview mode where no formatting happened and none was displayed. They definitely need to reintroduce it. I write anything creative in my favorite text editor since even OO is just too annoying for my taste.


so they removed it in later versions?

I never found it in Works 4.0, but I didn't spend much time with it :shrug:


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18 Sep 2008, 1:48 am

Well, if you have the latest Word, you can select "full screen read" from the View tab. There, you can check "allow writing", and "make font bigger", and that's as spartan as you can get. No toolbar, just you and the empty page :P

Add Fraya's recommendations and you're done :)


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18 Sep 2008, 5:51 am

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You can also edit rtf directly if all else fails, but it is a bit of a head f**k. I agree with chever it I worth using something that at least allows to get more hands on when necessary.


Editing RTF directly is a nightmare.

That is what I said. Although a good text editor can use pattern matching to remove the non standard bits, so at least he can use it.



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18 Sep 2008, 12:11 pm

The first thing I do whenever I get new software is tweak the preferences tabs to my specific liking. Most of the time I spent adapting to Word 2003 was removing undesirable options so it would behave like Word 2000. Finally I got so annoyed I had to uninstall it and install Word 2000 again. I won't even consider Word 2007. The changes are calculated to make every task take at least twice longer to complete.



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19 Sep 2008, 12:17 pm

Orwell wrote:
http://www.openoffice.org/


The best office package on the planet.. :)