![]() I'd waited long enough and did not want to deal with a BS PC). I mean how friggin' hard could it be to get a plain dark screen with text on it. ![]() Whoa.what a major Mother-effin' pain in the ass and I had to jump through hoops, you have to create a table on the page and change the background color and woe unto you if you just want to cut and paste some text somewhere else. So I gave up dammit.and now I've come back to the promised land Hallelujah. Posted by Skygazer at 8:18 AM on JanuI didn't realize there were others out there who felt this way.We should start a Yahoo club. I'm going to have to try this out.Īs someone who cut his teeth on WP 5.1, I can say that it is only through sheer self-discipline and bizarre social engineering with other writers (where the writers cannot leave until they've done their work) that I've managed to write anything at all (and specifically I speak of Microsoft Word here). Yes, there's that full-screen mode in Word. Particularly when I am aware of the distractions that lie beyond the window. ![]() ![]() (This was the only way I could finish a large project a few years ago: taking the whole damn thing on paper with me into a cafe, sans laptop, and working on it for hours by pen.) This is probably why I do a lot of rewriting by hand because there is absolutely nothing distracting that trusty conduit between the text and my brain.Īnd particularly when the window can be easily disabled through one keystroke or one can easily Alt-Tab between windows. I am not certain if these two programs entirely solve the problem, unless it's incredibly difficult to escape from the text editor and retreat to the other windows. But there's something to be said about the psychological differences between working with a word processing program that you must call up from a command line and one that can be fired up from a shortcut. I can only speak for myself here, but I wonder if other writers have seen the focus of their writing shift because of these software environmental conditions. ![]()
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