No, MS Word, I don’t want to actually WRITE anything. I want to watch you “optimize font menu performance” until my soul is sapped and I don’t feel like writing anymore.
Seriously, Word 2004 opened faster in Rosetta. What kind of fucking useless upgrade is this?
Is this MS Office 08? If so, I’m awfully glad I haven’t updated yet.
“Open Office”
It’s worth almost double what you’ll pay for it!
I’m seriously thinking of installing a Win98 partition just to be able to write a project using AmiPro by Lotus. With AmiPro changing an attribute was easy.
If you want to do any formating with Word you have to go to the Menu, choose the attribute and then you get a window that you have to click OK in order to do anything else.
With Lotus you got a window that hovered above the document and any formatting change you made in that window was immediately show in the document itself. So you could change the formatting all you wanted at any time and still be able to edit the document without having to close the formatting window.
Office 2008 has that feature as well.
Wait a minute, I updated my Office 2003 with Office 2007; what’s this 2004 and 2008 stuff?
Ooh! Ooh! While we’re bitching about Word, is there any way to force it to quit defaulting to “reading” layout whenever I open a damn document? I hate it so much.
This is why I haven’t upgraded MSword for a long time. I’m still using MSword 5.1 for the Mac. Great little word processor – and you can actually fit the whole thing on a floppy disk if you exclude the spelling dictionary. But do include it, it’s very handy.
On the PC I use the wordpad and the Microsoft Works word processor that comes with oh, whatever the hell their last useful operating system was … the one before Vista or whatever they’re calling it. I have filters that let me import and export higher-level Word files when I need to.
Office Mac. Until recently, the latest version was 2004 but a bit more than a month ago they released 2008. 2008 was supposed to use the Intel chip structure and consequently be faster on new macs. I haven’t noticed it though.
Office Mac is created by a team at Microsoft that works fairly independently of the regular MS office team. They supposedly work on Macs but sometimes I wonder if they’ve ever even seen one.
Me too. There’s a tick box which disables this. From the help file:
Prevent Full Screen Reading view from opening automatically
You can prevent Full Screen Reading view from opening automatically when you receive a Microsoft Office Word document in e-mail.
In Full Screen Reading view, click View Options.
Click Open Attachments in Full Screen to turn off the feature, and then click Close to return to Print Layout view.
DrCube - sorry, meant 2007.
Of course, both Tiger and Leopard come with their own full-fledged dictionaries. Is there no way to use those in Word 5.1?
You are the best.
F1 is a wonderful button to learn how to push. learn it, live it, know it.
AKA - RTFM.
Not only that:
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[li]Take a few minutes and explore Tools>Options, Tools>Customize, and Tools>AutoCorrect Options (some of this may vary depending on version; I know Word 2000, 2002, and 2003). Change a few settings, experiment, see what works and what you like. Back up your docs first, of course.[/li][li]Beyond F1 there are excellent sources for learning and problem-solving about Word. To develop expertise I used The Word MVP Site (especially the Format section) and the Intermediate Users Guide to Microsoft Word – both may be a bit out of date now (I discovered and devoured them in 2002) but the principles and most techniques were current as of Word 2003.[/li][li]For problem-solving of the “Now what’s wrong?” variety I visit the Word forum at Woody’s Lounge. Some very smart, experienced, and generous people there, with expertise miles beyond mine.[/li][/ul]
I’m not saying any of this should be necessary just to do word processing, and I’m sure OpenOffice or GoogleDocs (or WordPerfect) are easier and less maddening. But for those of us who live in Word’s world, whether by choice or by fiat, an investment of time will pay off.