The Word program which is part of Microsoft Office 2003 makes the simple task
of inserting or drawing a horizontal line across the page of a document
cumbersome at best, extremely frustrating at the worst. Why does Microsoft
have to make that simple task so difficult? Clicking on the Line icon on the
Drawing Toolbar brings up a box where one is to "Create your drawing here,"
when all I asked it to do was create a line.

And to make matters worse, when I attempt to use the help feature, it takes
me to Office Online, and presents me with information I don't want. This
software does so many different things, and is so complicated, they lost
sight of being able to do simple things like being able to insert a simple
horizontal line in a document.

Microsoft, get with the program.

You can disable the drawing canvas on the General tab of Tools | Options.
And you can set Help not to search online even when you have a connection.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Frustrated with Microsoft" Frustrated with
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The Word program which is part of Microsoft Office 2003 makes the simple
task
of inserting or drawing a horizontal line across the page of a document
cumbersome at best, extremely frustrating at the worst. Why does
Microsoft
have to make that simple task so difficult? Clicking on the Line icon on
the
Drawing Toolbar brings up a box where one is to "Create your drawing
here,"
when all I asked it to do was create a line.

And to make matters worse, when I attempt to use the help feature, it
takes
me to Office Online, and presents me with information I don't want. This
software does so many different things, and is so complicated, they lost
sight of being able to do simple things like being able to insert a simple
horizontal line in a document.

Microsoft, get with the program.

Microsoft has the worst help that I could ever imagine. Millions of scenarios
that are not even close to what you ask about when you query them. Sheish!!
Microsoft needs people in the company who can think in real world terms!

"Frustrated with Microsoft" wrote:

The Word program which is part of Microsoft Office 2003 makes the simple task
of inserting or drawing a horizontal line across the page of a document
cumbersome at best, extremely frustrating at the worst. Why does Microsoft
have to make that simple task so difficult? Clicking on the Line icon on the
Drawing Toolbar brings up a box where one is to "Create your drawing here,"
when all I asked it to do was create a line.

And to make matters worse, when I attempt to use the help feature, it takes
me to Office Online, and presents me with information I don't want. This
software does so many different things, and is so complicated, they lost
sight of being able to do simple things like being able to insert a simple
horizontal line in a document.

Microsoft, get with the program.

The amazing thing is _not_ that it is difficult to draw a line in Word, but
that you can do so at all. It is, after all, a word processing program, not
a drawing program.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Frustrated with Microsoft" Frustrated with
wrote in message
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The Word program which is part of Microsoft Office 2003 makes the simple
task
of inserting or drawing a horizontal line across the page of a document
cumbersome at best, extremely frustrating at the worst. Why does
Microsoft
have to make that simple task so difficult? Clicking on the Line icon on
the
Drawing Toolbar brings up a box where one is to "Create your drawing
here,"
when all I asked it to do was create a line.

And to make matters worse, when I attempt to use the help feature, it
takes
me to Office Online, and presents me with information I don't want. This
software does so many different things, and is so complicated, they lost
sight of being able to do simple things like being able to insert a simple
horizontal line in a document.

Microsoft, get with the program.

Charles Kenyon wrote:
The amazing thing is _not_ that it is difficult to draw a line in Word, but
that you can do so at all. It is, after all, a word processing program, not
a drawing program.


can I get an amen to that!!!

that said, I found the line drawing to be a little difficult to
understand too.