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}}Word processing {{tag|software}} that never quite managed to sort out auto-paragraph numbering but nonetheless sweeps all other office word-processing software before it. | }}Word processing {{tag|software}} that never quite managed to sort out auto-paragraph numbering but nonetheless sweeps all other office word-processing software before it. | ||
Refuseniks may prefer [[Microsoft PowerPoint]] (if trained in [[middle management]]) or even [[Microsoft Excel]] (if accountancy) as a canvass for composing documents. But the days of purpose-built alternative word-processing software packages, like | Refuseniks may prefer [[Microsoft PowerPoint]] (if trained in [[middle management]]) or even [[Microsoft Excel]] (if accountancy) as a canvass for composing documents. But the days of purpose-built alternative word-processing software packages, like Lotus Notes or WordPerfect or even the admirable but, preternaturally doomed open-source application OpenOffice are long gone. Google Docs might survive, but only because it purports to fill a very different need. And, Google. | ||
===Formatting=== | ===Formatting=== | ||
Despite [[Word]]’s universality and longevity and their supposedly superior analytical powers, few [[legal eagle]]s have the first clue how the devil [[Microsoft Word]] formatting works. They see the printed output of a | Despite [[Word]]’s universality and longevity and their supposedly superior analytical powers, few [[legal eagle]]s have the first clue how the devil [[Microsoft Word]] formatting works. They see the printed output of a document that looked all right to them on screen as some kind of ineffable magic — if it works — or the spurious ministrations of the capricious imp that inhabits their {{strike|typewriter|keyboard}}, when (as is inevitable) it does not. | ||
It goes without saying that the more nuanced skills — multi-level list numbering, consistently applying pre-defined paragraph and character styles and the effective manipulation of tables — are beyond all but the most space-aged legal brain. But many struggle with the idea of a page break or a tab stop, and instead lean on the space bar or return key letting it coast out randomly into the middle of the page, or down until it runs off the bottom and only a new page. | It goes without saying that the more nuanced skills — multi-level list numbering, consistently applying pre-defined paragraph and character styles and the effective manipulation of tables — are beyond all but the most space-aged legal brain. But many struggle with the idea of a page break or a tab stop, and instead lean on the space bar or return key letting it coast out randomly into the middle of the page, or down until it runs off the bottom and only a new page. | ||