And since you have no idea of my dealings with the disease,
I'd like to respectfully ask you to back off.
Certainly. And in return I will ask you to do the same. After all, you had
no idea about the original poster's dealings with the disease when you
posted your rather snotty reply in which included the reference to
Alzheimer's simply because the OP asked for some design help, but you still
did it! Practise what you preach, Joann!
Why is it that we give our children crayons, finger-paint, markers,
glitter glue, etc and encourage them to be creative but when I suggest
that we as adults do the same and forego templates, I am blasted
with negative comments.
There is a *very big* difference between encouraging people to be creative
and suggesting that they are at risk at contracting Alzheimer's disease if
they use a Microsoft template or if they need some help with design, as you
did Joann! If that's what you feel about templates then perhaps you should
address your remark to Microsoft, perhaps via your MVP Lead?
I'll make you a deal. I'll be creative and use templates only
as a skeleton for my projects. You can use templates to
your heart's delight and forego all creative spirit. Deal?
No deal! In fact I very rarely use templates myself and I personally prefer
to create my own designs from scratch. However, templates are still
occasionally useful to me and they are certainly extremely useful for people
with less artistic flair. Not everybody is good at the same things.
But if I wanted help with design, I would Google sites that help with
design concepts, not how to use a computer program. Once
I figured out what I wanted THEN I would figure out how to do
that with the program. (Which, by the way, is the purpose of this
newsgroup. We don't usually deal with the content of Publisher
projects.)
Well, Microsoft certainly does. That's why they provide templates. You
obviously disagree with Microsoft on that point. That's fine of course, you
are entitled to your own opinion, but this newsgroup is for people who use
Microsft Publisher, and part of Microsoft Publisher is the set of templates
that Microsoft provides. If you would personally prefer not to deal with
that aspect of Publisher then do not answer any questions relating to it.
Stick to what you know. And if, as it appears from your post, you believe
that people who use templates or who ask for advice on artistic content in
other ways are at risk of getting Alzheimer's disease then perhaps you
should consider addressing your remarks to the senior people at Microsoft.
If they agree with you they may even issue a Windows critical update that
removes the templates from all of their applications ;-)
By the way, according to your latest posts you seem to have doubts as to why
you often get "negative blasting" from other contributors, including from
some of your own MVP peers. Have a long think about it Joann. I'm sure the
answer will come to you eventually.
Maureen
