designers use Word?
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- OSFA0
I love it when an account exec asks you to help them with Word.
- inkpink0
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
- mydo0
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.
- d_rek0
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 correctrandommail
- fyoucher10
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..
- elahon0
It's a damn letter. It doesn't have to win any design awards or anything. Pages is fine.
- fugged0
wow, people still write letters?
- ukit0
I use....a pen