Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:07:58 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS-Word (Was: Feeding the Troll) Message-ID: <15366.49103.230.32590@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <42510374@toto.iv>
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Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> types: > At 11:12 PM 11/28/01 -0500, you wrote: > > > >Microsoft Word is a pathetic excuse for a word processor. There are still > >things that cannot be done in Word that could be done in Word Perfect for > >DOS! > <snip> > > Maybe so, but I can't think what kind of formatting you might have in mind Try following the standards for writing an RFC with MS-Word. Last I heard, not even MS could do it. They had to write a post-processing tool to get it right. > But let me put the question this way. I use M$ Word to create a form letter > for each one of our 120 students, twice a term, giving their grades. The > grades themselves are kept in an Excel spreadsheet, which uses formulas to > convert from a raw percentage score to a letter grade, and then to a > numerical grade from 1 to 4, which is then multiplied by a value at the top > of the column and summed at the end of the sheet to give me hours earned, > Grade Point Average, etc. All these values are linked to my mail merge > which also uses conditional fields to decide what to print depending on > which alternative courses the student took. > > Now I won't say it was easy to get this all working, but now that it *does* > work I can't afford to give it up. Can WordPerfect or any other word > processor that you know about do the same job for me? ApplixWare has all the tools you need to do that, and then some. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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