Sorry, we won't even go there.  It's the other way around, just like
an automatic could never compete with a standard.

But here, in this msg, we're talking about preferences.  That's a
different issue altogether so we won't go there.  In my case, I prefer
speed, accuracy and power.  We're working on manuals and Word is a
program that tells one what _it_ wants to do and you have to be an
advanced processor to wrest control away from Word.  If its styles
were reliable, I'd lean more in favour of it, but there are at last
count, and ONLY WHAT I HAVE COME ACROSS, over half-a-dozen things Word
_cannot_ do that Word can.

Nope.  Word YET doesn't have a leg to stand on.  There are only TWO
things that it has any advantage over WP:

- due to much better marketing practices, whatever those might have
been, Word is universally available so everyone can share documents

- for the _absolute_ beginner, Word pablum-like approach is much
better.  For a person just starting out, this is a great advantage.
but the instant you go beyond the basics is where Word is a serious
problem.

I'll lick it yet.  I have, at home, over 600 programs that I use to
one degree or other.  I know the components of all 3 major commercial
suites and I write my own databases in Filemaker Pro, etc., etc.

Word is just not a well-coded program, that's it, that's all.

But I absolutely COULD NOT live without Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint.
They are aweseome!  It's just Word that's the weak link in the chain.
I know, I work in the field a lot.  No-one has used Word to the degree
my current job has so I'm learning new aspects of it that I was happy
to not know up till now <lol>.  Word 2000 has certainly come a long
way and I have it at home.  I do use it for certain things over WP,
just not for complex docts as Word just doesn't do the job WP does.

Thanks.  Have a great day everyone.

Thank you.