{"id":2045,"date":"2009-03-18T19:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T10:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2009-03-18T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:27:00","slug":"template-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/18\/template-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Template This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one absolutely befuddled that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en\/us\/default.aspx\">multi-billion dollar company<\/a> that has had over two decades to iron out the details of its <s>poor excuse for a<\/s> enterprise-standard <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/word\/default.aspx\">word processor<\/a>, has never managed to come up with <em>one<\/em> single passable built-in template for business letters?<\/p>\n<p>And I am not talking about their &#8220;Fantasy&#8221; or even &#8220;Elegant&#8221; letter templates, which would make my niece&#8217;s MySpace page seem sober and sophisticated by comparison. No: I am referring to their most basic, no-frills, &#8220;Business modern&#8221; template, which still manages to look like the caricature of a &#8220;don&#8217;t&#8221; example in a primer on business etiquette and communication (pro tip: the fact that your monitor has colours, and possibly so does your printer, doesn&#8217;t mean you should try to stuff the entire rainbow in your official print documents).<\/p>\n<p>Time to start writing my mail with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LaTeX\">LaTeX<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one absolutely befuddled that a multi-billion dollar company that has had over two decades to iron out the details of its poor excuse for a enterprise-standard word processor, has never managed to come up with one single passable built-in template for business letters? And I am not talking about their &#8220;Fantasy&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insignificant-details","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2048,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}