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I don't believe they ever will. While I was teaching uni I was horrified by the extent to which high schools had taught students that a word processor is no more than an electronic typewriter. I took some time out to show them some basics; how much time they could save and the hassles they would avoid with the simplest of word processor features, but my efforts were largely ignored with some dreadful excuses about it being too hard to learn, too time-consuming, or unnecessary. The habits had already been formed and I was too late. I said then and I still believe that the basics of using a word processor are so simple that they could, and should, be taught from the first years of high school. It's maddening, but until the first lessons are started when the minds are young enough to accept the concepts, they won't learn. Back in the 1930s Carnegie wrote "A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still."

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