Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:46:33 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> Subject: Re: MS-Word (Was: Feeding the Troll) Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20011129164633.007a97b0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20011128225654.Q98706-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> References: <3438.208.216.122.52.1007006101.squirrel@y3k.shacknet.nu>
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At 11:12 PM 11/28/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Microsoft Word is a pathetic excuse for a word processor. There are still >things that cannot be done in Word that could be done in Word Perfect for >DOS! <snip> Maybe so, but I can't think what kind of formatting you might have in mind -- obviously it's something I've never used. It might be something I'd like, but I have about everything I can use now and a whole bunch left over that I have no need for. But let me put the question this way. I use M$ Word to create a form letter for each one of our 120 students, twice a term, giving their grades. The grades themselves are kept in an Excel spreadsheet, which uses formulas to convert from a raw percentage score to a letter grade, and then to a numerical grade from 1 to 4, which is then multiplied by a value at the top of the column and summed at the end of the sheet to give me hours earned, Grade Point Average, etc. All these values are linked to my mail merge which also uses conditional fields to decide what to print depending on which alternative courses the student took. Now I won't say it was easy to get this all working, but now that it *does* work I can't afford to give it up. Can WordPerfect or any other word processor that you know about do the same job for me? As it is now it takes me an afternoon to enter all the grades and teachers' comments and the next morning I can give the head teacher the grades for all our students. I'd cheerfully drop Word, although I don't particularly dislike it, if I found a substitute. -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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