Top 10 reasons students will love Word 2013

re: Top 10 reasons students will love the new Word

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re: Top 10 reasons students will love the new Word

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re: Top 10 reasons students will love the new Word

fatcat1111 — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:59:27 GMT

I just installed Word 2013. Regarding citations, my professors require students to use the Chicago style for the humanities, but Word 2013 only has the Chicago style for the sciences. In the past I was able to make my own citation style to handle this, but it sounds like now we are limited to only those that are "in the cloud" somewhere? Christ, I have a paper due in three weeks. I never should have upgraded. I really don't know what I'm going to do now.

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prabhakar2504 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:20:20 GMT

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re: Top 10 reasons students will love the new Word

davidacoder — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:29:37 GMT

Here are some reasons why students will not like Word 2013:

1) Equations still cannot be numbered. And this is the third release since the introduction of the new equation editor. I don't know a single subject area in a university setting where there is anything but marginal use of an equation editor that can't number equations. My students have to hand in homework with equations all the time, but they have to be numbered, it is a basic requirement in an academic setting. I think almost all like the new equation editor, but now end up either still using MathType or going to Lyx right away.

2) The ref manager is even more confusing than in previous versions. Say I have some reference in my master list that I want to cite in text. You would think I could do that by clicking "Insert Citation", right? But no, you have to go to "Manage Sources", copy the ref from the master list to the current list, and only then can you insert a citation to that reference via the "Insert Citation" button. This is entirely impractical, the right way to do this is that if I click "Insert Citation" a dialog pops up where I can search the master list, select something and insert this. EndNote, Mendeley and all the other programs do this right.

3) The edit options for citations are way too limited. For example, lots and lots of papers cite things like this: "according to Authorname et al. (2010) such and such". Can't be done in Word without spelling out "Authorname et al." by hand in the text.

4) You have twelve citations styles. That covers such a small fraction of that universe... I can see that you won't be able to do all the styles yourself. But you could provide a converter from CSL files, that would solve that problem instantly.

5) This is more a question: is the master reference list synced in the cloud?

6) If you were to provide a way to have more styles and even let me e.g. import CSL styles, the definition of the style should probably be included in the docx file so that when I send the doc to a co-author that her machine can format the document, and the styles library should sync via the cloud.

When Word 2007 introduced all these new features aimed at academics/students, I thought that was a great move. But since then, neither the equation editor nor the ref manager have gotten the kind of follow up you need to make them useful. It is all small things that need to be fixed, but as these tools stand right now, they really cannot be used for even basic student needs.

Btw., I would be VERY surprised if your telemetry told you anything else.