designers use Word? 3030 Responses

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• randommail

  Since Word and Pages are equally bad products to use, I just use InDesign to write letters.

  Does anyone here use Word/Pages to type letters? Is there an alternative to InDesign?

  Feb 19, 10, 9:31 a.m. – Permalink

• ckentish

  Google Docs

  • Their it is...– ideaist1/3

    +1– fugged2/3

    THIS– dMullins3/3

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:31 a.m. – Permalink

• ckentish

  I handcode all my letters in notepad

  • looool– bigtrickagain

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:32 a.m. – Permalink

• formed

  I use Word all the time. Copy/paste, drag/drop is super easy, then export to PDF.

  It looks messy, though, and I wouldn't use it for much beyond compiling notes.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:34 a.m. – Permalink

• OSFA

  I love it when an account exec asks you to help them with Word.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:34 a.m. – Permalink

• inkpink

  I think Pages is actually pretty good. Wouldn't want to actually design with it, but for proposals etc.

  Google Docs I like the idea but performance is sometime a little unpredictable, and have had trouble with the exports to .doc format.

  • usually end up bringing Google Doc into Pages for cleanup.– inkpink

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:34 a.m. – Permalink

• mydo

  word is difficult to use because over the years they couldn't change key functions people were used too. eg, ctrl+shift+S DOES NOT = SAVE AS. aghhhh.

  apart from that, it's brilliant with a bit of care you can quickly create large documents, input data and images far quicker and easier than you can in any other design program. Just sucks if you want to do stuff that only designers care about.

  Don't even get me started on powerpoint.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:41 a.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  Jesus... you type letters out in indesign? InDesign is a typesetting and composing program not a word processing application... It doesn't really hold a candle to the ease at which you can start typing a document up. Now, formatting that document to look nice in word is a different story...

  • yes, as a designer, I require my documents to be typographically correct– randommail

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:43 a.m. – Permalink

• ESKEMA

  TextEdit > Indesign
  only use Word to open clients documents.

  • <– hans_glib1/2

    I even use TextEdit to open client"s word docs– ntimm2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:49 a.m. – Permalink

• fyoucher1

  I use Word if I absolutely have to (ie. what the acct execs use or ask for) but avoid that and Pages because they take too long to open and you just don't have great control over layout. Otherwise I use the notepad editor that comes with Path Finder for just the plain text stuff and to come up with the copy first ... and when I need to make a nice document I just use Illustrator (just b/c I don't know how to use InDesign) and export a PDF....for proposals, estimates, invoices, contracts...stuff like that..

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:53 a.m. – Permalink

• elahon

  It's a damn letter. It doesn't have to win any design awards or anything. Pages is fine.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 9:59 a.m. – Permalink

• fugged

  wow, people still write letters?

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:12 a.m. – Permalink

• iheartfun

  

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:21 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  I use....a pen

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:21 a.m. – Permalink

• Remixt

  Word is the ENEMY. Sure, as a tool, it has it's LIMITED uses, but it's general suckage is infinite. I always find it hilarious when people looking for freelance designers say "must know Word." The fuck outta here w/ that...

  As for letters, yeah, I still write em.... W/ pens, on paper. Then you stick em in envelopes. Attach those little square pictures, in the top right corner? That you had to lick, back in the day? Yup.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:26 a.m. – Permalink

• fugged

  i wish stamps made me feel funny after i licked them. i'd probably write more letters.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:29 a.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  Text Edit does everything I need. If I need to do anything more complicated with the text, InDesign does it better than Word ever could.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:31 a.m. – Permalink

• wristtattoo

  i used Word once.

  • Dreamweaver spell checks– wristtattoo

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:32 a.m. – Permalink

• Mimio

  I use Word & Excel every day.

  • I pity you.– boobs

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:34 a.m. – Permalink

• eieio

  openoffice.org

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:35 a.m. – Permalink

• dMullins

  Speaking of Word. What's the deal with job postings that require a Word résumé for design work? I use PDF, if a company doesn't have a PDF reader, GTFO.

  • word resume request = a bad sign....prepare for idiocy and people who just don't get it....– vaxorcist1/2

    word docs allow "keyword search"
    Its what HR use to sift through the piles.– alicetheblue2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 19, 10, 10:39 a.m. – Permalink