Nicole Kobie is PC Pro’s Futures editor. Her first draft of this column was 300 words too long, but she managed to edit it down without crying at the software. @njkobie
Most of the documents I write and edit are relatively short: this column is about 860 words, online news stories tend to be 1,500 or so, features are 3,000 and up. As my editors will tell you, likely with a look of exhaustion on their faces, I tend to file more words than requested.
But the document I
