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Why You Should Never, Ever Send Word Attachments to a Mailing list and Why Any Attachment Can Bite You
With no offense to Microsoft intended
Microsoft Word probably is the most used Word processor in the world. I haven’t looked at evidence, but I bet nothing else comes close. It comes “free” (sort of) with some computers and most businesses use nothing else.
By the way, I noticed recently that Microsoft offers a heck of a good deal for personal use: Microsoft 365 Family offers multi-platform (desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone) Word, Excel, and Powerpoint for $99 a year. It includes 6 licenses and gives a full terabyte of cloud storage to each license. That’s an extremely good deal if you need those apps or that storage.
Yet many of us do not need Word and probably shouldn’t use it.
Word is a high powered tool with many, many features. You don’t need it to type up a note for the refrigerator or to tuck into a birthday card. Free tools like NotePad, Text Edit and (Mac) Notes come with your operating system even if Word did not. Those tools start up more quickly, consume less RAM, and will seldom do anything unexpected to your work.
And there are some things you should never do with any of those tools.
