![]() If you opt to do your first drafts with a Number 2 pencil on a legal pad while sitting in a tepid bath, or you just love Bean, I fully endorse your choice, even though I don't share it. This is as idiosyncratic and fundamental as personal preferences in underwear and shoes and the choice of sugar or no sugar in your coffee - very much a matter of taste and comfort and individual style. But as a working writer I like my word processor the way I like it. ![]() Generally speaking, I'm willing to do a lot of accommodating to someone else's defaults and design concepts in computer apps. Or, in some cases, more accurately, just not for me. I faced just two significant adaptations: the first, and most substantial, to the latest release of Word itself, the second to a brand-new file format within Word.Įn route to this juncture I had tested most of the word processors and writing environments available for the Mac, and found them wanting. Nonetheless, they force a number of adjustments on users, most of whom (unlike me) have spent years learning to work with previous versions of these apps and now must revise their ways of thinking and working, sometimes drastically, if they elect to upgrade. All of these changes, and others, pertain to making Office '08 a fully cross-platform set of apps, surely a laudable goal. docx (Open XML) format - just when I'd gotten into the habit of saving all my new text files as Word rtf (and converting all my old ones to that format) so that anyone could open them. I got my feet seriously wet in Word X just in time to greet the release of Office 2008, the first Universal Binary release of Office for the Mac, making it the first version to run on Intel Macs as a suite of native apps not requiring Rosetta. In late 2007 I found my way more than belatedly into Word X (from Office for Mac 2000), a version already one iteration out of date - considerably so, since Word 2004 had succeeded it some three years back. Out of consideration for those of you with better things to do, right here at the start I intend to make relatively short a very long tale, enabling you to bypass the backstory entirely if you're busy or think me windy. ![]()
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