Article: Unlocking word's secrets: you paid for all those features; why not use them?(Outfitter)(Column)

In my last couple of columns, I've railed against the commercial software machine for producing bloatware and forcing companies to pay high prices for stuff they don't need. There is another side to the coin of this rant: A lot of these supposedly unnecessary functions are really very useful. The problem is, nobody knows about them because they aren't documented anywhere. Also, office workers get into a groove using the bare minimum of their tools and convince themselves that they don't have the time to learn quicker ways to do their jobs with the software they have. (The truth is, they don't have the time not to learn.)

Unfortunately, feature bloat and skinny ...