- From: Alan Cantor <acantor@oise.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:47:27 -0500 (EST)
- To: Chris Kreussling <CHRIS.KREUSSLING@ny.frb.org>
- cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> PS: *Why* would you use Word to edit an HTML document?! MS-Word has elegant text-editing commands that are absent from a basic text editor, and that make editing documents a pleasure. For example, you can quickly move entire lines or paragraphs without using the clipboard; select words, sentences, and paragraphs by pressing a single key; and undo and redo 100 levels. All of the above can be done using keyboard and point-and-click techniques. So there is a lot of versatility. Unfortunately, many of the really powerful Word commands are extremely poorly documented. Furthermore, savvy Word users can create special-purpose editing commands in Visual Basic to enhance the usefulness of the word processor as a text editor. Why use Word? Because it is a good tool for the job. Alan
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