WHAT THE MOTHERFUCKING FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS PIECE OF SHIT PROGRAM?
Why the fuck does it freeze all the goddamn time? I am so sick of this shit. Every cocksucking time I am trying to write another worthless fucking essay, this useless pile of steaming shit freezes on me.
I learned after the first time. Now I save immediately after putting a title on my paper. I save after every paragraph or two. But, without fail, this crap freezes just as I’m about to save and I lose a couple paragraphs. Autosave doesn’t seem to work. I have it set to save every 2 minutes but I must type pretty fucking fast to manage to lose so much between saves. Normally it freezes as I’m finishing up a sentence and about to save so all I have to do is open the file again and copy what I just wrote.
Not now though. Oh no. Not fucking now. I just finished the last 3 paragraphs on this worthless essay for my worthless liberal arts class. I scrolled up to read from the beginning and the fucker froze. I can’t scroll down to copy what I just wrote. I’m exhausted and still have another stupid essay to write for this same class before midnight tonight. I don’t have time for this shit. I can barely remember what I typed the first time!
It doesn’t help that this is yet another essay on a subject we already covered. It’s getting damn hard to not plagiarize myself and now I have to try to remember how I ended the essay.
And I have a toothache. And a headache. My boyfriend is sleeping. My puppies are sleeping. Hell, even the fucking fish seem to be sleeping. Me? Nope. No sleep for me. I have to rewrite my ending so that I can go and write ANOTHER FUCKING ESSAY ON PLATO!!!
If Word’s giving you that much trouble, why not download OpenOffice, or use an online service like Google Docs or Zoho?
While none of them are as powerful as Word, if you’re just writing a plain old university humanities essay, they will do basically everything you need.
If you already have a Gmail account, Google Docs is probably the easiest.
Just sign into your Google account, then click on the Documents link in the top left of the page. Then click on the Create New button, select Document, and you’re away.
The interface will be familiar to anyone who’s used Word, and as i said, as long as you don’t have any incredibly complex formatting requirements, it will do everything you need, including footnotes.
So far I haven’t even needed footnotes. But, with 5 online classes, I have to write a whole shitload of essays.
I’ll give Google docs a try…after this current assignment is done. My brain is fried and I need sleep, which means I’m barely going to have time to do the second essay. I’ll look into it on Wednesday.
So, I’m assuming that my documents will be saved in Google docs the way my email is saved in gmail - yes?
Oh, forgot to say - thank you for the suggestions. My sanity is very quickly running away from me after 9 weeks of this philosophy shit. I can’t wait for this semester to be over so I can burn my copies of Republic and The Prince. If Google docs can help me retain what little remains of my sanity, I might actually make it to next semester (when I have to take psychology - motherfucker!)
Yep. It’s all really easy. You can export the online documents as a Word file, a PDF, or a bunch of other formats.
And really, if Word is giving you as much trouble as you say, it will probably be just as easy for you to go straight to Google Docs for your current assignment. It really does take only a minute to get up and running. Certainly, from the sound of it, you will spend less time getting started on Google Docs than you will having Word freeze up on you while trying to write your paper.
Thank you. I’m going to need it. I don’t even know why I’m having so much trouble. I’m supposed to be analyzing 3 quotes from Gilgamesh. Not only did I actually like the damn poem, I am usually very analytical. Not today though. The second half of the assignment is comparing Machiavelli to Plato and I think they were both pompous windbags. I’m very much not looking forward to it.
Turn off the Autosave. The damn thing EATS resources. There are some other tricks to get Word to not freeze every 10 seconds, but that’s the big one. Plus it’s the only one I remember right now.
Too bad more people don’t use WordPerfect. I don’t know if the latest is, but it used to be much more stable than Word and the Reveal Codes feature ensures you never have the mystery format problems Word saddles you with.
Word sucks big hairy moose balls. The only reason it has such a grip on the WP industry is because it used to be loaded on every single PC sold. It’s a resource hog, it’s unstable as hell, it’s numbering styles are living nightmares, and it has a bad habit of changing things to what it thinks it ought to be instead of what you actually want.
I wish I’d’ve had Google Docs in school. It’s very nice, even just to have the stuff online and always available.
The only real problem with taking your existing paper* to Google is that there may be some formatting problems. You might would rather just copy from Word, and paste into Google docs, and fix it that way, rather than uploading the file and letting it be converted. It’d be quicker, probably, too.
*Word automatically backs up your document every 10 minutes or so, and will let you recover from that backup next time you start. If, of course, that’s not also something that’s wrong with your installation of Word. And, if I were you, I’d still look into fixing Word, even if all you do is uninstall and reinstall it. There could be some class that comes up where you need it. Plus, assumedly, you did pay for it.
