Man Dislikes Word Processing Program

“When a standard tool requires this many workarounds, we need to find a new standard. Word wants to show that it knows the world isn’t merely about paper — you can make documents that have real, live hyperlinks in the text! You just can’t necessarily put those hyperlinks up on the Internet for anyone else to click on. Again and again, Word is defeated by the basic job of contemporary writing and editing: smoothly moving text back and forth among different platforms. The fundamental unit of Word is the single, proprietary file, anchored to one computer.”
 — Awl pal Tom Scocca has some opinions about Microsoft Word. Also, he knows the word “paraphasic” and is not afraid to use it.