I have never come across such an ill thought out, unintuitive or illogical
piece of software.

David wrote:
I have never come across such an ill thought out, unintuitive or
illogical piece of software.

Aw, c'mon... tell us what you really think!

What I really think is that you're a troll.

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Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Is there supposed to be a question in here somewhere??

"David" wrote:

I have never come across such an ill thought out, unintuitive or illogical
piece of software.

The loser oops I mean "user" took the time to find a Microsoft Newsgroup,
Subscribe, and post a thread about something he doesn't like.

No one talks to you much, huh? Wonder why?

Hmmm...
"Treesy" wrote in message
...
Is there supposed to be a question in here somewhere??

"David" wrote:

I have never come across such an ill thought out, unintuitive or
illogical
piece of software.

Gosh, shows you how much I know.
I thought it worked really well (mind you, I had to read the directions).

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Rob
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"David" wrote in message
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I have never come across such an ill thought out, unintuitive or illogical
piece of software.

Yeah, I guess the millions of us that use and love (okay, maybe not *love*)
are wrong.

"RWN" wrote:

Gosh, shows you how much I know.
I thought it worked really well (mind you, I had to read the directions).

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Rob
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"David" wrote in message
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I have never come across such an ill thought out, unintuitive or illogical
piece of software.

Treesy wrote:
Yeah, I guess the millions of us that use and love (okay, maybe not *love*)
are wrong.



Millions of you use it because you're not given any other choice.

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There are other choices, Corel Wordperfect, Firefox, Safari, Lotus Notes..

Is there a point in here?

"Gordon" wrote in message
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Treesy wrote:
Yeah, I guess the millions of us that use and love (okay, maybe not
*love*) are wrong.


Millions of you use it because you're not given any other choice.

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HT wrote:
There are other choices, Corel Wordperfect, Firefox, Safari, Lotus Notes..

Is there a point in here?


Yes. For some reason, it seems that most organisations have gone for MS
Office. Why, I'm not quite sure......so that's why most people don't
have a choice. Private individuals certainly have a choice, but I should
think they are far outnumbered by those who use Office at work.


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I don't have to use Word, and in fact I moved to Word from other word
processing software (WordStar, XyWrite, WordPerfect). There are still some
features of those programs that I miss in Word. But by and large I feel I
understand the way Word works, and I'm comfortable with it. Most of the time
I just use it, some of the time I get frustrated with it, but more often I
am very pleased with it. I think most Word users have at best a love-hate
relationship with it, with love outweighing hate most of the time. I suspect
that's true with other programs as well (I certainly find it true of most of
the software I use--and not just software from Microsoft, either).

One of the things that most often makes the balance tip to the "love" side
for me is the extent to which Word can be customized to work the way I want.
I also love the fact that there is always uncharted territory to explore.
There are some features of Word that I may never need to use and
consequently never fully understand, but I am happy knowing that they are
there if I need them.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Gordon" wrote in message
...
Treesy wrote:
Yeah, I guess the millions of us that use and love (okay, maybe not
*love*)
are wrong.



Millions of you use it because you're not given any other choice.

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counting!)
gordonATgbpcomputingDOTcoDOTuk
to email me remove the obvious!

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Normal style is not set to Automatically update by default.

Actually, Terry, it is in Word 2002 (XP). Drove me (and
everyone else) absolutely nutty until we figured it out. It
was THE FAQ when the version hit the markets.

-- Cindy

I'm curious as to why I didn't experience it, then. I bought a new computer
with Office XP installed. I set it up from scratch (didn't import an old
Normal.dot), and I don't recall ever having to change this setting. My
charmed life again, I guess! g

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"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message
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Normal style is not set to Automatically update by default.

Actually, Terry, it is in Word 2002 (XP). Drove me (and
everyone else) absolutely nutty until we figured it out. It
was THE FAQ when the version hit the markets.

-- Cindy

Cindy

I take your word for it: XP is history now!

Terry

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: Actually, Terry, it is in Word 2002 (XP). Drove me (and
: everyone else) absolutely nutty until we figured it out. It
: was THE FAQ when the version hit the markets.
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: -- Cindy
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Hi Suzanne,

I'm curious as to why I didn't experience it, then. I bought a new computer
with Office XP installed.

Could be that an later SP is part of that installation? I wouldn't be
surprised if MS changed that default setting in an SP, somewhere down the
line... I don't KNOW this is the case, but they have to have become as tired
of the support questions as we did.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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I don't think an SP is involved because when I bought my computer Office XP
was brand-new--so new that Dell was still offering a choice of Office 2000
or XP (and I selected 2000 but got XP anyway, which I was annoyed about
initially but later grateful for).

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Words into Type
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"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message
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Hi Suzanne,

I'm curious as to why I didn't experience it, then. I bought a new
computer
with Office XP installed.

Could be that an later SP is part of that installation? I wouldn't be
surprised if MS changed that default setting in an SP, somewhere down the
line... I don't KNOW this is the case, but they have to have become as
tired
of the support questions as we did.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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