So I fired up 's Writer and recreated my thank-you card there. The graphic came out more smoothly, but predictably, the photograph looked even worse.įrustrated, I wondered how another word processor would compare to Microsoft's. Then I tried to print it from Adobe Reader to see if the quality would be any better. I exported the document to portable document format using Microsoft's Save As PDF Add-In for Office. I could have sent the card anyway, but it just wasn't crisp enough for me. I knew that Word's image compression must be to blame, because I can get sharp and beautiful photo prints using Adobe software. When I printed the document, I was annoyed to see that the photograph was fuzzy and the lines on the graphics rough. The card, which I created in Word, included several lines of text on the front, plus a photograph taken by an NPI staff member and a high resolution SVG I had illustrated in Inkscape and exported to PNG. This weekend, I was preparing a thank-you card to send to a friend who has long been a source of inspiration and strength for myself and the rest of the Northwest Progressive Institute team.
Like millions of other users, I have the latest version of Microsoft Office running on my computer, and while I like the interface, I've become more and more dissatisfied with Word's performance. (Word is not offered for Linux, though it is possible to install and run it on Linux using Wine). Most installations of Word can be found on machines running Windows, but the software is also available for Mac. New computers built by major manufacturers like Dell or Hewlett Packard (HP) often come bundled with Microsoft Works Suite, a cheaper version of Office that includes Word. Microsoft Word is everywhere: on library workstations, on school/college machines, and in workplaces large and small. The era of the typewriter ended long ago, and typing speed is considered by many people to be more important than good penmanship.įor over a decade, the king of word processing has been Microsoft Word, perhaps the most well known and widely used component of Microsoft Office. These days, whether for work, home, or school, most people in America use a computer for word processing.
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