Heppelmann provided an analogy of a Microsoft Word document and a printer.

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He began using a Microsoft Word document to keep track of everything he experienced, which he would post whenever he could get access to the Internet.

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The LSM-100 is also equipped with LG's Optical Character Recognition technology, which converts scanned text into a Microsoft Word document that can then be edited and manipulated as the user sees fit.

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And while Google Docs online spreadsheet and word processing software is stripped down (when compared with Office), it does make it easier for workers to share a single online document and collaborate on it with colleagues--something that gets complicated fast when multiple copies of a Microsoft Word document are blasting around the office.

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First, I created an identical word-processing document, with text in various styles and a photo, and then exported it to Microsoft Word on a PC and Mac.

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Microsoft recommends that the tool is used before people publish any Word document.

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That package includes online e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and document sharing, much like Microsoft's cash cow Office suite.

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When he's giving someone feedback on a document -- whether it's on a PowerPoint Deck or in Microsoft Word -- it's much more tedious to mark it up on a keyboard, Gutsche said.

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