In article <22EA196E-A4A3-4558-A0B0-CA3EBBFE84C8@microsoft.com>, Marty
Markoe - eMicrophones, Inc.
<MartyMarkoeeMicrophonesInc@discussions.microsoft. com> wrote:
Mark Conrad posted nasty stuff to a poor unsuspecting MVP -
> > Now stop beating around the bush and tell me how to submit
> > a formal bug report to Microsoft, PLEASE.
>
> I'm guessing a simple macro will solve your problem so
> post what is happening and see if you
> receive a solution?
Hi Marty, nice hearing from you.
Not as easy as that, I do not communicate well with MVPs or
anyone else spouting the $MS party line.<g>
I was just using that NewLine issue to vent my frustration,
mainly with Microsoft, but also with Nuance.
If I got into
http://www.msspeech-forum.com it would just
result in a big fight, because someone there would invariably
defend Microsofts approach and that would set me off.
You know what I mean, MS has the decided tendency to make the
rest of the world do stuff the MS way, rather than leave the
choices to the user.
Take paragraphs for example, there are at least 3 ways to
handle them:
My dog has fleas,
and so do I.
My wife beats me, (indentation, very popular)
but only on weekends.
My dog has fleas,
and so do I.
(separate by a line)
My wife beats me,
but only on weekends.
1) My dog has fleas. (number the paragraphs,
and so do I. as in scientific journals)
2) My wife beats me,
but only on weekends.
Now Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, has decreed that the
"separate by line" method will be imposed on the world by
almighty Microsoft.
It is this general tendency to take control out of the hands
of the user that I resent. Apple does it a little, but not
nearly as much as Microsoft does.
Then the darn MVP had the gall to tell me that everything
would be taken care of because $MS had further decreed
that all document apps will have automatic word-wrap!
Not so, as anyone can tell you when they run into those
weird browsers that have several long lines, and the poor
viewer ts required to scroll horizontally to read the lines.
So what to do about Microsoft's overly aggressive attitude of
"do it my way, or no way at all".
Sure, I could make macros, lots of different macros for 43
different medical specialties who do things differently from
each other.
All I have to do is learn 3 different variants of Visual Basic,
the WinWrap Basic V6 still favored by Dragon,
the Microsoft VB Script 5,
and Microsoft VBA 6. grr, grrr
A year of hard application should put me in the business of
selling macros.<g>
Heck, I might as well learn C, because variants of Visual
Basic have little use on the Mac platform.
Of course, everyone pats $MS on the back for their foresight
in taking choice out of the hands of the users, because that
spawns a whole new industry of people who can sell macros
to users, macros that would not be needed if the user had
more choices.
End of Rant ;-)
Mark-
--
As you can see, I am an opinionated hard-headed old geezer,
who is probably dead wrong in a lot of my assumptions.
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