From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 15: 8: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C331237B416 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:08:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30098 invoked by uid 100); 29 Nov 2001 23:07:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15366.49103.230.32590@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:07:58 -0600 To: Roger Merritt Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS-Word (Was: Feeding the Troll) In-Reply-To: <42510374@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roger Merritt types: > 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! > > > Maybe so, but I can't think what kind of formatting you might have in mind Try following the standards for writing an RFC with MS-Word. Last I heard, not even MS could do it. They had to write a post-processing tool to get it right. > 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? ApplixWare has all the tools you need to do that, and then some. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message