14 Jan
2022
14 Jan
'22
7:53 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 4:00 PM David Arnold <davida(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Ironically, around that same time, Word for Windows 2.0 was IMHO the peak
of that product’s functionality, in that while it allowed the user to
randomly apply styling to the text, it was the last version that made the
template facilities an equal first-class citizen in the UI. It was almost
as easy to define and use “semantic” styles for formatting as it was to
just do inline markup. Version 6 (they went from 2 to 6 in one hop) bent
the product firmly towards use by amateurs, with toolbar buttons for
bulleted lists, etc, that hid the underlying use of styles, and thus
avoided users incrementally learning how to do consistent documents. From
my perspective, every release since has made it worse.
Thank you for saying this. I agree and I thought I was the only person who
felt that way.
Adam