Is there a wordsmith in the house?

That Microsoft software developers' hubris that they know what the user wants better than the user, and that users only have 2 digit IQs, has been an ineradicable infestation of all Microsoft products going back to Bill Gate's diaper days. I think that gang up there in Redmond really believes they're saving us from ourselves and making the world better, but god help any one of them if a user ever finds one of them alone on the street and the user finds out he's just met a Microsoft software developer. Except for burning the place down, I don't think there's a cure.

 

One of my least favorite applications is MS Word. I try to avoid it as much as possible, so I can't really help. I use a plain text editor (TextEdit) for most stuff.

 

Word beating out WordPerfect was worse than VHS beating out Betamax.

All the capabilities I want from a word processor:

1. Ability to insert, add, delete, move, copy and search text.
2. Ability to manually run spell check.
3. Headers and footers.
4. Tables.

Don't need auto-spell check, auto-paragraph numbering, auto-paragraph indentation ....

 

Switch to free OpenOffice on Linux; save and send docs in PDF, or any format. I also use Apple's OSX. Microsoft is frustration! Have not used any of it since 1998.

 

Hey, Hyo... if I had Word on this laptop, I'd give you the walk through for how to fix it.
Have you tried just right-clicking the offending word corrections, and then selecting "add to dictionary"? Tedious, yes, but you only have to do it once for each word, then it won't bother you again.

 

Somebody always beats me to it!

However, I will add that if you are still using Windows, you can use OpenOffice (you don't have to be running Linux to use it), and if you are using OS X you can use NeoOffice, which is simply a port of OpenOffice to the Mac. Both programs are free and both are open source. And both include analogs of the entire MS Office suite.

It is silly to allow Bill on your computer. I gave Bill the boot several years ago and will not permit anything from Microsoft onto my computer. It is all defective.

 

Since WHEN has Office 2007 gotten along with ANYBODY?!

I have an MSDN subscription, and I still refuse to use Office.

Others have pointed out the solution - run OpenOffice and go back to leading a fairly normal life

OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

Sharp readers will notice that Oracle has the lead now for OpenOffice, not Sun

 

Um, everybody is aware that Sun is now part of Oracle, right?

 

Bravo and well put, Daniel. You shame me with your rides, though. My other car, a 2002 Miata MX-5, is my big failing.

 

OpenOffice is my choice if I have to do those sort of tasks.

AmiPro was a great word processor. It had all of the style and formatting anyone would need, a great user interface, and everything worked as a normal person would expect. Sadly it was purchased by Lotus, who then reworked it as Lotus WordPro, and it was eventually killed by competition from MS Word. I would still use it if it ran on the current operating systems.

Tom

 

I agree 100%. Although I do run Windows because the computer has to run something, right? And I admit I have Office, because that's what clients I have work with. And I have Internet Explorer, obviously, because I'm using the Web.

But other than that, there are no Microsoft products on my computer.

 

:evil:

 

In that situation, my only advice to clients is this:

Heavy

and

Drinking

that will be $5,878.42 please

 

Microsoft = Hummer
Mac = Prius
Linux = full EV

 

If environmentalism is the criteria, we're all going to hell. But my Zap Xebra is one hell of a fun ride.

ound:

Change jobs.

 

I wonder if that is how the members of the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS"]SS[/ame] felt about their leader?* :madgrin:













* I'm invoking Godwin's Law. :madgrin: