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Hi all,
I am new here and I am furious with Microsoft Word!!! RANT I am a die-hard Linux user and I am being forced to use MS Word because the University wants all documents in that format *grumble*. Anyway, I have no idea what version of word I am using because the interface is completely nuts. Gone is the nice little "version" pull-down that plainly and simply tells you what software version you are using! Also, why is it so darned complicated??!!! It seems to be taking me 10 minutes to do with the wretched GUI what it would take me 1 minute to do using the command line in Linux. Furthermore, the GUI layout is completely different from every other word processor I have ever used. How come I can do things so fast in freeware like OpenOffice, but it takes me ages in MS Word?? I have nearly smashed the mouse ... /RANT *ahem* Anyway, here is my question: Please note, I can do this in 2 or 3 seconds in OpenOffice on Linux ... I can't do it AT ALL with MS Word, I've been trying for half an hour. It is so simple it makes me want to cry. All I want is level two headings numbered 1, 2, 3, etc and paragraphs under them numbered 1.1, 1.2 .... 2.1, 2.2, etc and I want it so that when I use tab or tab+ctrl it adjust the indent and numbering appropriately. Any ideas? If there is no simple way, I will go back to OpenOffice and submit my work in PDF format. I hate windows, word, office, you name it, if it is called "Microsoft", I hate it!!!!! This post is brought to you from Firefox Ok ... My rant is truly over! To perhaps make things clearer, here's what I want to do, were I to do it in XHTML: HTML Code:
ol li style="heading1"Kitchen/li ol li style="heading2"blue cupboard/li ol style="bodytext" lipot/li lipan/li liskillet/li /ol /ol li style="heading1"Kitchen/li ol li style="heading2"blue cupboard/li ol style="bodytext" lipot/li lipan/li liskillet/li /ol /ol !-- etc, etc, etc -- /ol Last edited by XmisterIS : April 14th 09 at 11:09 AM Reason: Give clarity |
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"XmisterIS" wrote in message
... Hi all, I am new here and I am furious with Microsoft Word!!! RANT I am a die-hard Linux user and I am being forced to use MS Word because the University wants all documents in that format *grumble*. Err Open Office will save in MS Word format. -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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"XmisterIS" wrote in message
... Hi all, I am new here and I am furious with Microsoft Word!!! RANT I am a die-hard Linux user and I am being forced to use MS Word because the University wants all documents in that format *grumble*. So will Abiword - save to *.doc format that is. -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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Your problem is with the University not Microsoft and you are
unrealistically expecting to be instantly up to speed in an application that bears little resemblance to what you are used to and haven't taken the time to learn. However OpenOffice, while bearing little resemblance to Word operationally will produce Word format output, so use that if you are happier with it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org XmisterIS wrote: Hi all, I am new here and I am furious with Microsoft Word!!! RANT I am a die-hard Linux user and I am being forced to use MS Word because the University wants all documents in that format *grumble*. Anyway, I have no idea what version of word I am using because the interface is completely nuts. Gone is the nice little "version" pull-down that plainly and simply tells you what software version you are using! Also, why is it so darned complicated??!!! It seems to be taking me 10 minutes to do with the wretched GUI what it would take me 1 minute to do using the command line in Linux. Furthermore, the GUI layout is completely different from every other word processor I have ever used. How come I can do things so fast in freeware like OpenOffice, but it takes me ages in MS Word?? I have nearly smashed the mouse ... /RANT *ahem* Anyway, here is my question: Please note, I can do this in 2 or 3 seconds in OpenOffice on Linux ... I can't do it AT ALL with MS Word, I've been trying for half an hour. It is so simple it makes me want to cry. All I want is level two headings numbered 1, 2, 3, etc and paragraphs under them numbered 1.1, 1.2 .... 2.1, 2.2, etc and I want it so that when I use tab or tab+ctrl it adjust the indent and numbering appropriately. Any ideas? If there is no simple way, I will go back to OpenOffice and submit my work in PDF format. I hate windows, word, office, you name it, if it is called "Microsoft", I hate it!!!!! This post is brought to you from Firefox Ok ... My rant is truly over! To perhaps make things clearer, here's what I want to do, were I to do it in XHTML: ol li style="heading1"Kitchen/li ol li style="heading2"blue cupboard/li ol style="bodytext" lipot/li lipan/li liskillet/li /ol /ol li style="heading1"Kitchen/li ol li style="heading2"blue cupboard/li ol style="bodytext" lipot/li lipan/li liskillet/li /ol /ol !-- etc, etc, etc -- /ol |
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Considering that you can't find anything, I'm guessing you are using Word
2007. Version information can be found by clicking the 'Office orb', 'Word Options', 'Resources', 'About'. Alternatively, in Windows, you can just right click the executable, and pick properties. There you can find detailed version information about the executable. The easiest way in Word 2007 to do what you want is to on the "Home" tab in the "Paragraph" group, click the "Multilevel List" button. You can either define your own or use one of the predefined ones (there is one with your requirements). Switching levels can be done by clicking the "Increase Indent" and "Decrease Indent" buttons right next to "Multilevel List" button. Default you can use the combinations Alt+HAO and Alt+HAI but you can of course assign shorter shortcuts if you want. Yves "XmisterIS" wrote in message ... Hi all, I am new here and I am furious with Microsoft Word!!! RANT I am a die-hard Linux user and I am being forced to use MS Word because the University wants all documents in that format *grumble*. Anyway, I have no idea what version of word I am using because the interface is completely nuts. Gone is the nice little "version" pull-down that plainly and simply tells you what software version you are using! Also, why is it so darned complicated??!!! It seems to be taking me 10 minutes to do with the wretched GUI what it would take me 1 minute to do using the command line in Linux. Furthermore, the GUI layout is completely different from every other word processor I have ever used. How come I can do things so fast in freeware like OpenOffice, but it takes me ages in MS Word?? I have nearly smashed the mouse ... /RANT *ahem* Anyway, here is my question: Please note, I can do this in 2 or 3 seconds in OpenOffice on Linux ... I can't do it AT ALL with MS Word, I've been trying for half an hour. It is so simple it makes me want to cry. All I want is level two headings numbered 1, 2, 3, etc and paragraphs under them numbered 1.1, 1.2 .... 2.1, 2.2, etc and I want it so that when I use tab or tab+ctrl it adjust the indent and numbering appropriately. Any ideas? If there is no simple way, I will go back to OpenOffice and submit my work in PDF format. I hate windows, word, office, you name it, if it is called "Microsoft", I hate it!!!!! This post is brought to you from Firefox Ok ... My rant is truly over! To perhaps make things clearer, here's what I want to do, were I to do it in XHTML: ol li style="heading1"Kitchen/li ol li style="heading2"blue cupboard/li ol style="bodytext" lipot/li lipan/li liskillet/li /ol /ol li style="heading1"Kitchen/li ol li style="heading2"blue cupboard/li ol style="bodytext" lipot/li lipan/li liskillet/li /ol /ol !-- etc, etc, etc -- /ol -- XmisterIS |
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You should quit you position with the University. Imagine the gall to want
documents to be opened in Word. They should mandate that everyone switch to Linux. They are just a bunch of naricists. "XmisterIS" wrote: Hi all, I am new here and I am furious with Microsoft Word!!! RANT I am a die-hard Linux user and I am being forced to use MS Word because the University wants all documents in that format *grumble*. Anyway, I have no idea what version of word I am using because the interface is completely nuts. Gone is the nice little "version" pull-down that plainly and simply tells you what software version you are using! Also, why is it so darned complicated??!!! It seems to be taking me 10 minutes to do with the wretched GUI what it would take me 1 minute to do using the command line in Linux. Furthermore, the GUI layout is completely different from every other word processor I have ever used. How come I can do things so fast in freeware like OpenOffice, but it takes me ages in MS Word?? I have nearly smashed the mouse ... /RANT *ahem* Anyway, here is my question: Please note, I can do this in 2 or 3 seconds in OpenOffice on Linux ... I can't do it AT ALL with MS Word, I've been trying for half an hour. It is so simple it makes me want to cry. All I want is level two headings numbered 1, 2, 3, etc and paragraphs under them numbered 1.1, 1.2 .... 2.1, 2.2, etc and I want it so that when I use tab or tab+ctrl it adjust the indent and numbering appropriately. Any ideas? If there is no simple way, I will go back to OpenOffice and submit my work in PDF format. I hate windows, word, office, you name it, if it is called "Microsoft", I hate it!!!!! This post is brought to you from Firefox Ok ... My rant is truly over! To perhaps make things clearer, here's what I want to do, were I to do it in XHTML: ol li style="heading1"Kitchen/li ol li style="heading2"blue cupboard/li ol style="bodytext" lipot/li lipan/li liskillet/li /ol /ol li style="heading1"Kitchen/li ol li style="heading2"blue cupboard/li ol style="bodytext" lipot/li lipan/li liskillet/li /ol /ol !-- etc, etc, etc -- /ol -- XmisterIS |
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Marsh wrote:
They are just a bunch of naricists. What's a "naricist"? |
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I made a major typo and meant narcissist. Just a sarcastic comment.
People should learn to adapt and learn rather than complaining. It is not un "Gordon" wrote: Marsh wrote: They are just a bunch of naricists. What's a "naricist"? |
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Oh yes, I have tried saving to MS Word format in Open Office. Open Office will display the resulting file correctly, however in MS Word it looks like a wretched abomination. A wretched filthy abomination and nothing less.
Yes, the world would be a better place if we all used Linux! In fact, the world would be a better place if we used a bank of interchangeable syndicated XML feed formats with memory efficiency being provided by an automatic tag indexing system (like a "tag palette"). They shall have their documents in PDF format and damned be their eyes and teeth if they don't like it. Last edited by XmisterIS : April 15th 09 at 02:24 PM |
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Your solution for making the world a better place is in fact the cause of
the problem. By decoupling the data (xml) from the way the data is displayed (html with css, rtf, plain text, ...), you allow for different programs to display the data in a different way. The success of PDF is mainly because it tightly integrates the content and its formatting. It has serious downsides of course: hard to update, predefined page size (and thus unaware of the paper size of your printer), .... You have to choose what you want, ultimate freedom to manipulate your data, or always the same "correct" display. You can't have both. On a side note, I find it funny that you argue that OpenOffice displays Word documents correctly, while Word does not. You are turning the world upside down. Microsoft invented and implemented the format (probably at the same time and thereby letting one thing influence the other) while OpenOffice only came much later with its implementation. Although they have done a tremendous job considering the lack of documentation on some parts, you can't expect OpenOffice to be 100% compatible with Word. Yves "XmisterIS" wrote in message ... Oh yes, I have tried saving to MS Word format in Open Office. Open Office will display the resulting file correctly, however in MS Word it looks like a *-wretched abomination-*. A *-wretched filthy abomination-* and nothing less. Yes, the world would be a better place if we all used Linux! In fact, the world would be a better place if we used a bank of interchangeable syndicated XML feed formats with memory efficiency being provided by an automatic tag indexing system (like a "tag palette"). They shall have their documents in PDF format and damned be their *-eyes-* and *-teeth-* if they don't like it. -- XmisterIS |
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A naricist is someone who is in love with himself and can't spell. (But what
does spelling matter when you're so darned good looking?) p.s. Marsh--good points! "Gordon" wrote: Marsh wrote: They are just a bunch of naricists. What's a "naricist"? |
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I figured since "nares" = "nostrils," perhaps a naricist was someone who
looked down his nose at others, or a nose picker, or someone who gets up others' noses. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "CTURNER82" wrote in message ... A naricist is someone who is in love with himself and can't spell. (But what does spelling matter when you're so darned good looking?) p.s. Marsh--good points! "Gordon" wrote: Marsh wrote: They are just a bunch of naricists. What's a "naricist"? |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
... I figured since "nares" = "nostrils," perhaps a naricist was someone who looked down his nose at others, or a nose picker, or someone who gets up others' noses. ROTFL! -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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Or maybe someone who picks other peoples' noese.
(Yuck) -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I figured since "nares" = "nostrils," perhaps a naricist was someone who looked down his nose at others, or a nose picker, or someone who gets up others' noses. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "CTURNER82" wrote in message ... A naricist is someone who is in love with himself and can't spell. (But what does spelling matter when you're so darned good looking?) p.s. Marsh--good points! "Gordon" wrote: Marsh wrote: They are just a bunch of naricists. What's a "naricist"? |
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JoAnn Paules wrote:
Or maybe someone who picks other peoples' noese. (Yuck) Like a plastic surgeon? :-) -- SteveH |
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SteveH wrote:
JoAnn Paules wrote: Or maybe someone who picks other peoples' noese. (Yuck) Like a plastic surgeon? :-) No, in that case you pick your nose and the surgeon puts it on. B/ |