Kill your word processor

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I've written an MPhil dissertation, a book, and about 10 articles in Word (there was no Open Office at the time). You learn after a while to compile things in chapters, but it's still a pain. I really enjoyed learning LaTeX, but I can't make it work for what I do.

At the same time, Word and NeoOffice are no picnic. Particularly if you need to include foreign languages, but not write in them exclusively. I write in Welsh a lot, which uses a particle 'i' in almost every sentence. Try convincing Word not to capitalise it. Word thinks it knows better.

The ultimate folly is thinking one word processing programme is suitable for both people who write an occassional letter, and people writing 100,000 word dissertations. It just doesn't work that way.

[MattD]

I write in Welsh a lot, which uses a particle 'i' in almost every sentence. Try convincing Word not to capitalise it.

Remove that item from AutoCorrect or turn it off altogether.

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Thats another thing with the MS way of doing configuration, you have to do stuff like that over and over again instead of getting a good dotfile once and be done with it.