You are sadly mistaken if you think you are paying Terry's salary, or that
you are a client of his company. None of us here work for Microsoft; this is
a peer-support forum (we're all volunteers), and many of us receive no
salary at all from anyone (I'm self-employed, and I believe Terry is
actually test-driving retirement).
Not only are we not employed by Microsoft; we are not necessarily defenders
of Microsoft or any of its applications (we are frequently as dissatisfied
with them as you are). But we are here to try to help people use the
software they've forked out the money for, and we do that by answering
questions. When there is no question--only a rant--there's really not much
we can do to help.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
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"A. Vella" wrote in message
...
Dear Suzanne's friend,
I confused the two Scottish names/surnames, that is true but you did not
answer any of my points. There may be several reasons - not just the ones
I
mentioned as examples - why a person might have to upgrade. Moreover I
never
said i wanted to write just letters though, in any case, Word is not
supposed
to be a DTP program.
If you did not understand my reference to the Japanese greeting you have
no
idea what we're talking about. I suggest you go back to your video game
and
let someone more mature (Bill Gates himself perhaps?) interact with your
company's clients.
Whether you like it or not we ARE the people forking out the money from
which your salary comes from.
"Terry Farrell" wrote:
Dear Intertroll
Suzanne did not reply to Gordon: she replied to Graham. Her answer was
perfectly satisfactory. Would you upgrade your car without looking at
the
specs of the new car? So why blindly upgrade to Office 2007 when you are
happy with Office 2003 and all you want to do is write letters?
I suggest that any version of Office is overkill for writing letters and
that the free WordPad (or many other free text editors) would suffice
for
letter writing.
I don't see that Suzanne greeted anyone in Japanese either.
--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP