I think that's what people said when the quill and inkwell were first threatened by the fountain pen, actually. :-)
Go ahead and chase geese around all you want in search of the perfect feather, and I'll continue to enjoy my keyboards. I hardly ever write anything longer than a label by hand anymore. This has caused my handwriting skills to diminish over the years and my fine motor control to atrophy to some extent, but on the upside, I don't get the serious hand cramps that I used to when writing long papers with a pen. I gleefully pitched my last typewriter (an expensive IBM it was, too) as soon as I got a decent laser printer, and I have no regrets.
The formatting issues with outlines, bullets and so forth in MS Word are basically long entrenched bugs that everybody just accepts as "normal" nowadays, to the extent that Microsoft is now afraid to fix them for fear of making the behavior of their software "incompatible" with older versions. You really shouldn't blame your own level of experience or expectations for what was originally some hack's sloppy programming (probably even before Microsoft acquired the Word product from the original authors). There are better and easier to use text editors out there, so feel free to shop around a bit.
I think that's what people
I think that's what people said when the quill and inkwell were first threatened by the fountain pen, actually. :-)
Go ahead and chase geese around all you want in search of the perfect feather, and I'll continue to enjoy my keyboards. I hardly ever write anything longer than a label by hand anymore. This has caused my handwriting skills to diminish over the years and my fine motor control to atrophy to some extent, but on the upside, I don't get the serious hand cramps that I used to when writing long papers with a pen. I gleefully pitched my last typewriter (an expensive IBM it was, too) as soon as I got a decent laser printer, and I have no regrets.
The formatting issues with outlines, bullets and so forth in MS Word are basically long entrenched bugs that everybody just accepts as "normal" nowadays, to the extent that Microsoft is now afraid to fix them for fear of making the behavior of their software "incompatible" with older versions. You really shouldn't blame your own level of experience or expectations for what was originally some hack's sloppy programming (probably even before Microsoft acquired the Word product from the original authors). There are better and easier to use text editors out there, so feel free to shop around a bit.
- GDS