![]() ![]() It’s been more than fifteen years since I’ve had to deal with getting documentation printed and bound and I’m just fine with that. I write a lot of technical content and think that perhaps the popularity of today’s content management systems are taking a larger part of the presentation layer role than ever before. To make this happen, Salesforce needs to stick behind Quip, not do what they did with Do.com which shutdown in January 2014 (Do.com came out of the Salesforce acquisition of Manymoon). There’s indeed a case to make if documents stay in an application like Quip or Paper that presentation could become secondary or not even needed at all. The advent of Quip and now Dropbox Paper make me wonder about the future of document templates. ![]() Here’s another taste of the Dropbox Paper UI minimalism: I see Quip and now Dropbox Paper better suited to the task because both word processors take away the confusion/intimidation of red track changes while keeping track of changes and enabling you to roll back changes when and if necessary. While in the past, I used to push using track changes with Microsoft Word for collaborating on document reviews. I’ve been working from home for a majority of the past four years, so I do a lot of collaboration. Word templates are a lost cause with some users.Microsoft Word has grown inordinately complicated for the average user.Some lessons I learned about Microsoft Office: Sprinkled during that time were some articles I wrote about Microsoft Office based on my frontline experiences. Before that, I was a technical reviewer for some commercially published Microsoft Office books. I even spent time on a team supporting the rollout of a new version of Microsoft Office to a major federal agency. While I applaud some of the advancements that Microsoft has brought to Microsoft Office over the years especially when it comes to SharePoint and OneDrive integration, I still have to say that Microsoft Word has grown too cumbersome for the average users.īy default, as a technical writer, I’ve had to answer my fair share of Microsoft Word questions over the years from my co-workers around me. Working as a technical writer has meant I’ve often had to make Microsoft Office and Microsoft Word in particular work for myself. ![]()
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