On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 4:00 PM David Arnold <davida@pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Ironically, around that same time, Word for Windows 2.0 was IMHO the peak
> of that product’s functionality, in that while it allowed the user to
> randomly apply styling to the text, it was the last version that made the
> template facilities an equal first-class citizen in the UI.  It was almost
> as easy to define and use “semantic” styles for formatting as it was to
> just do inline markup.  Version 6 (they went from 2 to 6 in one hop) bent
> the product firmly towards use by amateurs, with toolbar buttons for
> bulleted lists, etc, that hid the underlying use of styles, and thus
> avoided users incrementally learning how to do consistent documents.  From
> my perspective, every release since has made it worse.
>
>
Thank you for saying this.  I agree and I thought I was the only person who
felt that way.

Adam