I did, and Word version 2 was an excellent product. WordBasic was incredible. There was even a graphical dialog-builder, so you could invoke dialogs from your macros. I wrote a macro that parsed and re-wrote SQL queries for a Big-6 consulting firm, saving them man-weeks if not months.
OMG I'm so happy you never had to write documentation in the 1990's!
I did, and Word version 2 was an excellent product. WordBasic was incredible. There was even a graphical dialog-builder, so you could invoke dialogs from your macros. I wrote a macro that parsed and re-wrote SQL queries for a Big-6 consulting firm, saving them man-weeks if not months.
Word today is a ghastly, incompetent shitshow.
I used *roff back then. Now I have to put it into confluence. What a downgrade.
What are you talking about? Word is the standard for docs in many large engineering companies.
That does not make it good.
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