designers use Word?
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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?
- ckentish0
Google Docs
- ckentish0
I handcode all my letters in notepad
- formed0
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.
- 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
- Remixt0
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.
- fugged0
i wish stamps made me feel funny after i licked them. i'd probably write more letters.
- i_monk0
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.
- wristtattoo0
i used Word once.
- Mimio0
I use Word & Excel every day.
- dMullins0
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....vaxorcist
- word docs allow "keyword search"
Its what HR use to sift through the piles.alicetheblue