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megan walker - Nov 26, 2008 11:59:07 am PST #8159 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

::Thinks of the beauty that was WordPerfect. Cries.::


Connie Neil - Nov 26, 2008 12:03:10 pm PST #8160 of 25501
brillig

Thinks of the beauty that was WordPerfect

Indeed.

But these days I stay with NotePad.


Vortex - Nov 26, 2008 12:06:16 pm PST #8161 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

::Thinks of the beauty that was WordPerfect. Cries.::

Reveal codes!

holds hands with MW, sniffs.


Connie Neil - Nov 26, 2008 12:07:53 pm PST #8162 of 25501
brillig

Reveal codes!

A thing of beauty and a joy forever.


megan walker - Nov 26, 2008 12:18:32 pm PST #8163 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I'll never forget the day I was trying to do my usual grad-school paper style of:
1) title page
2) page with quote or picture
3) start of paper text (with no number)
4) second page (numbering starts with 2)

In Word.

I was on with the help line at Microsoft for almost an hour before I (emphasis on I) finally figured out how to do it.


NoiseDesign - Nov 26, 2008 12:19:03 pm PST #8164 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

No love for Word Star?


Consuela - Nov 26, 2008 12:42:01 pm PST #8165 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that I loved Word 4.0. Which was... 1990, or thereabouts. It did everything I needed it to, in about three different ways, but wasn't this bloated unintuitive mess we now have. I still miss it. Once upon a time, I was able to set styles and have them work; no more.


NoiseDesign - Nov 26, 2008 12:54:08 pm PST #8166 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I actually still kinda fondly miss PFS:Write. I used that on my Apple II for years. Then Appleworks, but I seem to remember liking PFS more.


Gris - Nov 26, 2008 2:49:42 pm PST #8167 of 25501
Hey. New board.

I like LaTeX. And am rather fond of Pages, for most of my duties. Neither of them lets me do a really good merge from an arbitrary spreadsheet, though, so Word serves a major purpose for me.


evil jimi - Nov 26, 2008 3:38:19 pm PST #8168 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Microsoft have a conversion program available. You install it, and it will allow you to open and edit the Office 2007 files in earlier versions of the applications.