MS Word is...
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... a pile of steaming doggy doos. I hate it! I really hate it! Document over ten pages - it crashes. Two documents open - it gets confused and, yes, crashes. Styles get re-applied, altered and/or corrupted with NO user intervention. A three-week old's kack filled nappy is a more enjoyable experience.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
XL 2007 is the best of the Office package, and once you get used to it, I think it is the best version yet. Word does suck a little though. (Have you tried using spreadsheet data to form an address listing in word? Oh Boy, bring gin!)
------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens
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Office 2003 on XP SP2. At home I use staroffice and it's much kinder to me.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
That approach works fine for me until I have to save something in .doc format when sometimes things like diagrams unexpectedly vanish. I guess when everyone starts using .odf for their documents that will change. Russ
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... a pile of steaming doggy doos. I hate it! I really hate it! Document over ten pages - it crashes. Two documents open - it gets confused and, yes, crashes. Styles get re-applied, altered and/or corrupted with NO user intervention. A three-week old's kack filled nappy is a more enjoyable experience.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
I like Office 2007, actually. One nice and very useful feature is the Live Preview of changes. You have to agree to that, at least.
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... a pile of steaming doggy doos. I hate it! I really hate it! Document over ten pages - it crashes. Two documents open - it gets confused and, yes, crashes. Styles get re-applied, altered and/or corrupted with NO user intervention. A three-week old's kack filled nappy is a more enjoyable experience.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
I've never had a problem with Word 2007, except understanding the styling rules.
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Are you talking about Word 2007? It crashes on me every time I close it, and I absolutely hate that freakin' ribbon.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I absolutely hate that freakin' ribbon
Is that what they call that stupid bar across the top that sucks up half the screen and contains nothing I want to do to my document? As of this writing, though, I have to admit that it hasn't crashed. But since being forced to upgrade, I've been using a pencil and paper a lot...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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XL 2007 is the best of the Office package, and once you get used to it, I think it is the best version yet. Word does suck a little though. (Have you tried using spreadsheet data to form an address listing in word? Oh Boy, bring gin!)
------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens
Dalek Dave wrote:
Oh Boy, bring gin!
Every hour of every day I share the sentiment. To be honest it’s not due to kackie whatevers, it’s just that gin works![^]
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Oh Boy, bring gin!
Every hour of every day I share the sentiment. To be honest it’s not due to kackie whatevers, it’s just that gin works![^]
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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Hey... I live in Gropecunt Lane! :suss:
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There is still a Grope Lane in Shrewsbury. It runs from where the market was once held, around the churches of St Alkmund's and St Julian's Figures! :laugh: :laugh:
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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... a pile of steaming doggy doos. I hate it! I really hate it! Document over ten pages - it crashes. Two documents open - it gets confused and, yes, crashes. Styles get re-applied, altered and/or corrupted with NO user intervention. A three-week old's kack filled nappy is a more enjoyable experience.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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... a pile of steaming doggy doos. I hate it! I really hate it! Document over ten pages - it crashes. Two documents open - it gets confused and, yes, crashes. Styles get re-applied, altered and/or corrupted with NO user intervention. A three-week old's kack filled nappy is a more enjoyable experience.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Amazing how they manage to sell millions of copies of a program that crashes over 10 pages, those poor lawyers with their lengthy contracts having to cram them down to less than 10 pages, explains the fine print I guess.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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... a pile of steaming doggy doos. I hate it! I really hate it! Document over ten pages - it crashes. Two documents open - it gets confused and, yes, crashes. Styles get re-applied, altered and/or corrupted with NO user intervention. A three-week old's kack filled nappy is a more enjoyable experience.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
I have to wonder what exactly you're doing to have meltdowns at the 10 page level. I've (very infrequently) had problems with 100+ page documents where the styles somehow get unstable and result in weird things happening or crashes, but never on anything smaller, IIRC all but one case of this I've seen has been from a single company base document (I'd use 'template' except it's .doc not .dot). Unfortunately the fix I've always used is to email it to the program administrative assistant to fix it. I'm not certain exactly what she does, but based on the amount of time it takes, and explanations of how she fixed minor problems that were seen prior to a blowup, I think she's completely replacing and reapplying the styles in the entire document. Changing formatting by editing the "header N" styles instead of taking text with the "header N" style and applying additional changes to it seems to reduce the occurrence of this problem. I'm picking on the headers because word's handling of numbered headers has always been a little screwy.
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Office 2007 blows. Outlook 2007, used in the most basic way, lost all my mail. I do not use it. It's a fitting companion for Vista.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Christian Graus wrote:
Outlook 2007, used in the most basic way, lost all my mail.
Is the PST corrupt? I've not seen it actually loose anything yet and I know a number of folks who have 6+ gig PSTs.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.