Thinks of the beauty that was WordPerfect
Indeed.
But these days I stay with NotePad.
Man, you just get darker and darker, and the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.
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Connie Neil - Nov 26, 2008 12:03:10 pm PST #8160 of 25501
brillig
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.
Kevin - Nov 27, 2008 1:08:33 pm PST #8169 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
The 'ribbon' interface has been expanded to other applications in Windows 7, which is the successor to Vista, due out next year.