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I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in a class
I am taking. Than I am suppose to articulate five solid ways in how I can
use word processing software-MS word in my daily instruction
 
Best way to find out is to use it.. doubtful that you would be able to
expand much on a list of 'for and against'..
 
Thanks. I am taking an educational Tech class and we are to evaluate
throughly the software of MS Word. Then we are to idenify and explain at
least three strenghts and weakness of the software. Than articulate five
soild way in how you might use wordprocessing Ms Word in daily instruction.
I have no Idea.
 
The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we
tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned
this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those
responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the
program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word".
 
In your case, the spellcheck function in Word would be an
invaluable strength.
 
Evaluating thoroughly?.. from a list given in here?.. Methinks that you are
missing the whole point of the exercise..
 
Agreed entirely. I would just add that Word is hugely complex and an
absolute dream (I speak as one who has used manual typewriters); it can
do most things. In my opinion the weaknesses are human ones, in
particular relying too much on the spell/grammar check (which sometimes
makes ludicrous grammatical suggestions) and also the tendency seen
often on here to avoid any suggestion of applying compositional skills
by asking others for "templates" (ie what to say and how to say it) for
every darned thing.
The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we
tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned
this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those
responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the
program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word".

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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Thanks. I am taking an educational Tech class and we are to evaluate
throughly the software of MS Word. Then we are to idenify and explain at
least three strenghts and weakness of the software. Than articulate five
soild way in how you might use wordprocessing Ms Word in daily
instruction.
I have no Idea.
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I like you! :-)

Template requests frustrate me the most because it says "I'm too lazy to
start from scratch, modify an existing template, or search for something
else and modify that."

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Agreed entirely. I would just add that Word is hugely complex and an
absolute dream (I speak as one who has used manual typewriters); it can
do most things. In my opinion the weaknesses are human ones, in
particular relying too much on the spell/grammar check (which sometimes
makes ludicrous grammatical suggestions) and also the tendency seen
often on here to avoid any suggestion of applying compositional skills
by asking others for "templates" (ie what to say and how to say it) for
every darned thing.
The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we
tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor
assigned
this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those
responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the
program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word".

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

[email protected] said:
Thanks. I am taking an educational Tech class and we are to evaluate
throughly the software of MS Word. Then we are to idenify and explain
at
least three strenghts and weakness of the software. Than articulate
five
soild way in how you might use wordprocessing Ms Word in daily
instruction.
I have no Idea.

:

Best way to find out is to use it.. doubtful that you would be able to
expand much on a list of 'for and against'..

--
Mike Hall
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User



message I need to know three strenghts and weakness of MS word for a paper in
a
class
I am taking. Than I am suppose to articulate five solid ways in how
I
can
use word processing software-MS word in my daily instruction
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Evaluating thoroughly?.. from a list given in here?
Amen to that! I've been using Word almost every day for the last 8 years to
write reports and such. I've even gotten into writing macros. And I am
_still_ finding out new strengths and weaknesses. There is _no_ list that
will give you what you can get from actually *using* the program!

(What about the horrible scenario of you listing Word's captioning and
cross-referencing as a strength, and then the instructor sets you down on
your final and makes you _do it_?!!? If you're going to cheat, it *will*
catch you!)

Ed
 
JoAnn said:
The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we
tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor assigned
this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and pop those
responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use the
program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word".
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I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being
called Generation M, for "multi-tasking."

Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly
efficient ways of gathering information.

The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for
critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to
anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and
actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it takes
too much time.

B/
 
It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to
start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to
become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or
lists?
 
The day I need a template for a grocery list, I'm handing in my mom card.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

JoAnn Paules said:
It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to
start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to
become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates or
lists?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Brian Mailman said:
I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being
called Generation M, for "multi-tasking."

Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly
efficient ways of gathering information.

The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for
critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to
anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and
actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it takes
too much time.

B/
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Woo hoo!!!

The day you ask for any template, I'm tossing my computer out of the window.
I figure if *you* can't do something without a template, I don't stand an
ice cube's chance in hell at being able to do it.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
The day I need a template for a grocery list, I'm handing in my mom card.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

JoAnn Paules said:
It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template to
start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to
become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates
or
lists?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Brian Mailman said:
JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote:

The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if we
tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor
assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and
pop
those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use
the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word".

I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being
called Generation M, for "multi-tasking."

Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly
efficient ways of gathering information.

The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for
critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to
anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and
actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it
takes
too much time.

B/
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My point is not that they don't *want* to think, but that they don't
think they have to. They're not lazy, though. They just don't
understand why they should take the *time* to think.

Thinking takes time. Time they could have multi-tasked 7-8-9 different
things. There's always someone to ask for the answer. Someone has
already thought, why not just access The Stream (borrowing from an Outer
Limits episode)? It's not that they want someone else to do their
homework for them, this *is* their version of doing their homework.

B/
 
What really scares me is that your comments make sense.That means I must
have missed my meds.
 
Agreed.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

JoAnn Paules said:
What really scares me is that your comments make sense.That means I must
have missed my meds.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Brian Mailman said:
My point is not that they don't *want* to think, but that they don't think
they have to. They're not lazy, though. They just don't understand why
they should take the *time* to think.

Thinking takes time. Time they could have multi-tasked 7-8-9 different
things. There's always someone to ask for the answer. Someone has
already thought, why not just access The Stream (borrowing from an Outer
Limits episode)? It's not that they want someone else to do their
homework for them, this *is* their version of doing their homework.

B/
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Well, I'm not very creative and definitely not a designer, so I find it
helpful to find *examples* to copy, but I am not looking for a readymade
template, especially given the poor quality of most of the ones I've seen.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

JoAnn Paules said:
Woo hoo!!!

The day you ask for any template, I'm tossing my computer out of the window.
I figure if *you* can't do something without a template, I don't stand an
ice cube's chance in hell at being able to do it.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
The day I need a template for a grocery list, I'm handing in my mom card.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

JoAnn Paules said:
It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no
Click to expand...
template
to
start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to
become of their children if there's no one left to create new templates
or
lists?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote:

The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything
Click to expand...
if
we
tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor
assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and
pop
those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to actually use
the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word".

I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being
called Generation M, for "multi-tasking."

Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly
efficient ways of gathering information.

The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted for
critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to
anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and
actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it
takes
too much time.

B/
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Examples are different. Personally, I like examples and often search for
them. Templates are a completely different critter.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Well, I'm not very creative and definitely not a designer, so I find it
helpful to find *examples* to copy, but I am not looking for a readymade
template, especially given the poor quality of most of the ones I've seen.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

JoAnn Paules said:
Woo hoo!!!

The day you ask for any template, I'm tossing my computer out of the window.
I figure if *you* can't do something without a template, I don't stand an
ice cube's chance in hell at being able to do it.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
The day I need a template for a grocery list, I'm handing in my mom card.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

It seems as if today's youth don't want to think. If there's no template
to
start with or no ready-made list of features, they are lost. What's to
become of their children if there's no one left to create new
templates
or
lists?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote:

The point Mike was trying to make was that you won't learn anything if
we
tell you the answers to your homework. I doubt that your instructor
assigned this task so that you could post it in an MS newsgroup and
pop
those responses into a paper. I suspect he/she wants you to
actually
use
the program and "evaluate throughly the software of MS Word".

I think it's part of the always-plugged-in-generation, what is being
called Generation M, for "multi-tasking."

Cell phone, text messaging, IM program, web search... all incredibly
efficient ways of gathering information.

The problem to my mind is that the gathering is being substituted
for
critical analysis--when you can just ask any question at any time to
anybody and receive an answer, IMMEDIATELY, you cease stopping and
actually thinking whatever problem through for yourself because it
takes
too much time.

B/
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