Death to Microsoft Word

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 12th Apr, '12, 07:20

Whilst I do share some of the writer's pain, I have to ask why the hell they don't just use Notepad? It's my default note-taking program.

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baloo · Post by **baloo** » 12th Apr, '12, 07:24

Download notepad++

Best text editor around. Very powerful yet very simple.

And free.

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 12th Apr, '12, 07:28

Free is good

(I've finally, 4 months in, got a screenguard on my Galaxy Note so stylus-enabled once more. May become my new note-taking place once I get to grips with the scribbling.)

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 12th Apr, '12, 07:48

PSPad is fantastic. It can easily switch between standard text and various programming languages, which is important if you're working with computers that use such code.

And free.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 12th Apr, '12, 07:49

What I do dislike is people using Word Documents as finished documents, rather than printing/saving to PDF. e.g. many of our SOPs are in a Word Document format.

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 12th Apr, '12, 07:52

PDF makes perfect sense if you want to reduce your file size and also to protect the content.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 12th Apr, '12, 07:54

Protecting the content I always think is important, especially in Global SOPs. Reducing files size - depending on how log the document is, then not always seen a significant drop and hey, we're all on broadband now so 1MB files are not a problem.

Kooky · Post by **Kooky** » 12th Apr, '12, 08:00

You'd be surprised. Some places I deal with here are so last century

Jedi · Post by **Jedi** » 12th Apr, '12, 12:30

Fat Bob wrote:PSPad is fantastic. It can easily switch between standard text and various programming languages, which is important if you're working with computers that use such code.

And free.

Yes, I aree. It's the best!

nev · Post by **nev** » 12th Apr, '12, 16:55

I use both Notepad++ and PSPad, they're brilliant. I also use an XML editor called XMetaL for work, it's great but not free. It's been years since the last time I used MS Word. It just doesn't work for me because the stuff I write are published in different formats. MS Word is evil! I hate that it tries to format everything I write and there's just no way to turn off the auto-formatting.

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 12th Apr, '12, 17:03

nev wrote:I use both Notepad++ and PSPad, they're brilliant. I also use an XML editor called XMetaL for work, it's great but not free. It's been years since the last time I used MS Word. It just doesn't work for me because the stuff I write are published in different formats. MS Word is evil!

I use Altova XML Spy. Not free but very good for XML editing/converting etc

nev · Post by **nev** » 12th Apr, '12, 17:08

baloo wrote:I use Altova XML Spy. Not free but very good for XML editing/converting etc

Unfortunately I'm limited to only three editors currently supported by our CMS: XMetaL, FrameMaker, and Arbortext. I'm not complaining though, XMetaL is great. It's just prohibitively expensive for non-business use.

I like oXygen a lot too.

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