Let's play a game.
Don't say PowerPoint presentation, say slidedeck
Don't say Word, say text document
Don't say Photoshop, say image editing
Don't say Excel, say spreadsheet
Don't say...
Language is important. When corporate companies own the names of the tasks or the digital items you create, you have become a cog in their branding machine.
Great advice!
But are there no better word than "text document"? That is sort of already taken by plain text. A name for documents between text and DTP. Nothing else comes to my mind, though...
@Seetee @DrPen Yeah text document implies plain text.
The wiki page for docx refers to the type of files in question as "word processing documents", which seems accurate but is a bit of a mouthful. I suppose a compromise is to contract it to (lower case) "word documents" though that of course does not stand the line particularly clearly against the Microsoft software.
That is actually a good idea. It reflects common use and is easy to understand. I like it!
@distrowatch @jalager @Seetee @DrPen
I say “doc file” or “xls file” or “ppt file”.
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