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		stretchwithme on Jan 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Automation is reaching more companies Yes, the process of retyping a page was automated to the backspace key! heck, it wasn't just retyping the page you wanted to change. It was all the pages after that too! When I first used a word processor, it was so liberating.

thwarted on Jan 19, 2022 [–]

The automation with a word processor is not the input (the typing), it's the page layout and reflow, and being able to edit and get WYSIWYG before committing to the printed page.

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