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.
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.
Oh, it totally sucks. I'm pointing out that the pain didn't end in the 90's, and continues 30 years later :-(
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