A word regarding Word

[rolanni]

I would just like to say to the person in ITS who informed me that Microsoft Word is the Very Best Program for secretaries to lay posters out with, and, no, the college was not going to allow me to purchase a "lay Out pro GRAM" (pronunciation and emphasis original to the conversation) so I could do my job in a reasonable manner?

I'd just like to say to this person -- Word. Sucks. Very. Large. Rocks. And I hope your stock in MicroSmurf plummets.

Thank you.

Comments

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I'm almost willing to bet that this translates to "we have the Microsoft educational package deal" and "I don't want to have to teach other secretaries how to do something." Neither of which is an excuse -- their job for the university is to find the best possible programs, and then to help users with them. But having done this work for a while, I know that's not a popular view -- most ITS (IT Support?) seem to think their job is to get by with the least possible effort.

You might suggest that this page http://www.download32.com/free-poster-layouts-software.html provides a number of free layout programs. Scribus also seems to be relatively widely mentioned http://www.scribus.net/