[GTALUG] Vi-keybinding for MS-Word

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2017-06-23 04:52 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
> 
>> http://dready.org/projects/viWord/
> 
> I came across that site.  It's binary download and 2005 vintage.  Too
> risky for my work computer.

It likely wouldn't work even if you tried. I have friends in a writer's
group dedicated to maintaining Wordstar keyboard compatibility in modern
word processors. Until about a decade back, MS Word could be made to
emulate almost any input scheme, perhaps something to do with legacy
WordPerfect compatibility kept in for legal and government use.

This worked until about 2007, when an upgrade took this facility away.
You could try using a pre-2007 version, but note that MS changed the
office document internals slightly in 2016. As almost everyone is on a
subscription track now, older versions of Word will break files in ways
that may require a complete manual re-key* to fix. Your corporate policy
will likely ensure that your employment depends on getting with the
programme.

 Stewart

*: especially multi-page tables in documents with track changes. That
gets positively Lovecraftian.