Monday, July 06, 2009

Other people love Microsoft Word almost as much as I do

About 6 years ago I wrote about Microsoft Word: Living with the Beast. Nothing has happened since to change my opinion of Word.

Recently some Word bug related to cross-references made a hash of a technical document I wrote. A quick Google turned up this pithy quote from an anonymous tech writer commenting on a newsletter post

Word annoyance: Cross-referencing « CyberText Newsletter

[JR, comments]… Microsoft Word 2007 is a steaming pile of flaming maggot [censored] coded by a bunch of monkeys typing random keys on their keyboard and hoping it compiles…

Join the club comrade.