Comments from those that selected Word as one of their Top 10
Tools in 2008
"outlining and writing. I write by outlines, and I've
used Word since I bought a Mac II to write my PhD thesis on
(now, if Pages had outlining...)"
Clark Quinn
"I spend much of my time working in Word. The tracked
changes and compare functionality took a little while to work
out but I now find it indispensable. Storyboards and design
documents always go through many revisions and Word helps me
keep track of them all."
Rob Hubbard
"As PPT.
I've seen colleagues see the e-Learning 'light' (and
need for interaction) after being shown how to use
Forms and Comments" David Sugden
"Although, I use
GoogleDocs more frequently, I still prefer to do
most of my writing using Microsoft Word. However,
you never know in the future, as these online
processors continue to evolve and the Internet
becomes easier to access."
Zaid Algasoff
"For my electronic "To Do List" at
work. Every day, it is one of the first applications I
pull up. And it did help me to get through my
dissertation."
Benjamin Hamilton
"Still the standard and much improved with the new ribbon
interface"
Harold Shaw
""Depending on the project requirement, I use either
Microsoft Word or Powerpoint for developing the
storyboards for e-learning courses. I am impressed
with the look and feel of Microsoft Office 2007." Sathish Narayanan
"Still what I
do all my writing in (although I've started using Goodle Docs too)."
Kris Stanhope
"It is the place where my thoughts start to gain coherence."
Anastasia Prynikova
"Under everything I do are the many word
documents that I write. Never think of using anything else - so
it makes it a favourite, even if by default."
Judy O'Connell
Comments from those that selected Word as one of
their Top 10 Tools in 2007
General comments about Office
"Unlike many of my colleagues I have
never been a Microsoft hater. I use Office so much that
it has to be on the list. I really like the 07 suite
with its new interface and wouldn't swap it for
any cheaper
alternative. I
particularly like
the RSS feeds
facility in Outlook."Clive
Shepherd
"On an
average day I spend
a large proportion
of my time in either
Outlook for
emails,
PowerPoint for
creating storyboards
or Word for
documents. Never
thought of going
anywhere else. Some
features of it drive
me mad but it would
be daft now to start
again somewhere
else."
Vaughan
Waller
MS Office XP and Outlook 2003.
Grouped together because they are so interconnected.
These tools are chosen for me by my employer, but I
have no complaints - they do the job and I think
Excel is the finest application Microsoft ever
produced."
Karyn Romeis
"Whilst I'm not much of a PowerPointer, I use
Word
and Excel extensively. I
particularly like Word's
Outliner; and there are
many situations in which
some of Excel's
easy-to-learn "advanced"
features - like filters,
conditional formatting
and the like, save a lot
of time and effort."
Seb Schmoller
"I can’t imagine my work without Word, Excel and
PowerPoint"
Jorge
Goncalves
" For creating. The basic tools
to help conceive, plan, design, build learning products.
Have been the standard for me for 10 years"
David Meaney
"For writing, collating, preparing presentations,
tracking, reporting – online and offline – I still
haven’t found a way to avoid these tools"
Andrea Barrett
Specific comments
about Word
"As PPT. I've seen
colleagues see the e-Learning 'light' (and need for
interaction) after being shown how to use Forms and
Comments"
David Sugden
"what
I use the most for creating documents"
Lisa Neal
"Even being a true believer in agile
development, it is still necessary to describe the
framework of what we are developing. Previously, most
specs where made in Word, but comapping has taken over."
Ulrik
Juul Christensen
"Although,
we have online processors like Buzzword and GoogleDocs, I still prefer to do most of my
writing using Microsoft Word. However, you never
know in the future, as these online processors
continue to evolve and the Internet becomes easier
to access."
Zaid Algasoff
"I need Word mainly for printing web pages in
a more readable format: 2-column." I need Word mainly for printing web pages in
a more readable format: 2-column."
Matthias
Melcher
"if only i could export all the macros, and all the
autotext entries i've saved in word 2000, then i
could try a different word processor .. Expensive,
unless you have statewide educational licensing
deal."
Michael Chalk
