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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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Writer of speculative fiction from the wide open spaces. Rural liberal. Dispenser of horse cookies to the fancy-stepping Marker-boi. Former special ed teacher who's forgotten more about cognitive assessment than most people knew. #SFWA
Word's version of Reveal Codes is nowhere near as robust as WP's. And the subdocument merge program in WP was much stronger than Word's.
Track Changes is the big strength in Word, at least for me.
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Yeah, if you were in the legal world during a certain period you definitely became WP-proficient.

And a background in WordPerfect also works for killing problematic stuff in Word before importing it into a formatting program. Sigh. I MISS WORDPERFECT.
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Oh ghod yes. I *loved* Reveal Codes.
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Heh. That said, there *are* stock hauler truck races...but those are at fairgrounds, not on the road. And sometimes I've gotta wonder about semis passing each other on the freeway.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If only they could be customized...the "Chicken Nuggets" one would be perfect for someone I know who is raising a barrel racing horse with the show name of...Chicken Nugget (why? to get attention when they do their run. It's the culture, I guess).
And yes, he's a palomino....
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What explodes that argument for me is that the most downloaded of the anthologies I'm in on that pirate site--are CHARITY ANTHOLOGIES.

Fundraisers for good causes, in other words. Which just goes to show how depraved those thieves are.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Just want to fangirl because I loved Inventing the Renaissance. That said, it's kicked off a slow-mo deep dive into the Borgia era because the parallels...
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Of course.
(I miss alt.devilbunnies)
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anthony Trollope turned out 2000 handwritten words a day before going to work at the British Post Office.
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Reposted by Joyce Reynolds-Ward
Don't forget Glen Cook. Worked on a GM assembly line until retirement.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Reposted by Joyce Reynolds-Ward
I couldn't afford to move to Denver in 2021 when my job at the time did. The reality is many of these metro areas have largely caught up with "high cost coastal" metro areas in recent years.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM