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Can Microsoft be prosecuted for terrorism?
Greetings,
Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. I would be delighted to manually create everything without its "helpful" destruction. |
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Can Microsoft be prosecuted for terrorism?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org stevenjs wrote: Greetings, Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. I would be delighted to manually create everything without its "helpful" destruction. |
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problems with Outlining in Word2003 Can Microsoft be prosecutedfor terrorism?
Are you a columnist, or perhaps a blogger, required to turn out 5000
words per issue, whether you have something to say or not? (I must say, that appears to apply to Vanity Fair's James Wolcott every few months.) I think your question is about managing Outline styles in Word2003, and the MVPs here are incredibly helpful -- you're not exactly the first user to have problems with outlines -- and will gladly refer you to useful documents that were posted five years ago dealing with exactly these problems. But you have to indicate in your subject line that you actually have a question about using Word. On Jun 29, 8:04*am, stevenjs wrote: Greetings, Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. I would be delighted to manually create everything without its "helpful" destruction. |
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problems with Outlining in Word2003 Can Microsoft be prosecute
The damage is already done.
Which part of the 5000 words don't you get? All computing humanity is hostage. now that you've changed the title, can you answer the question? "grammatim" wrote: Are you a columnist, or perhaps a blogger, required to turn out 5000 words per issue, whether you have something to say or not? (I must say, that appears to apply to Vanity Fair's James Wolcott every few months.) I think your question is about managing Outline styles in Word2003, and the MVPs here are incredibly helpful -- you're not exactly the first user to have problems with outlines -- and will gladly refer you to useful documents that were posted five years ago dealing with exactly these problems. But you have to indicate in your subject line that you actually have a question about using Word. On Jun 29, 8:04 am, stevenjs wrote: Greetings, Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. I would be delighted to manually create everything without its "helpful" destruction. |
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To: Grammatim,
I found it ironic that this person's "virtual" dream job included being sadistic tortured by snaked-haired Gorgon software which slapped him and stuffed things down his throat. No doubt, as he stared into his monitor, he was turned into stone, thus unable to get anything done. But when I dream about women -- and Gorgon was a woman -- I don't anthropomorphize software as a female character in my dream. But each to their own, I guess. Steven Craig Miller "grammatim" wrote: Are you a columnist, or perhaps a blogger, required to turn out 5000 words per issue, whether you have something to say or not? (I must say, that appears to apply to Vanity Fair's James Wolcott every few months.) I think your question is about managing Outline styles in Word2003, and the MVPs here are incredibly helpful -- you're not exactly the first user to have problems with outlines -- and will gladly refer you to useful documents that were posted five years ago dealing with exactly these problems. But you have to indicate in your subject line that you actually have a question about using Word. On Jun 29, 8:04 am, stevenjs wrote: Greetings, Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. I would be delighted to manually create everything without its "helpful" destruction. |
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How is that a matter for helping you use Word? Save it for your blog,
which no one actually has to read. Graham answered the question -- just as I expected, with the information you need -- while I was composing my message. I'm surprised that he had the patience to wade through all the verbiage to discover what you were actually asking. On Jun 29, 9:23*am, stevenjs wrote: The damage is already done. Which part of the 5000 words don't you get? All *computing humanity is hostage. now that you've changed the title, can you answer the question? "grammatim" wrote: Are you a columnist, or perhaps a blogger, required to turn out 5000 words per issue, whether you have something to say or not? (I must say, that appears to apply to Vanity Fair's James Wolcott every few months.) I think your question is about managing Outline styles in Word2003, and the MVPs here are incredibly helpful -- you're not exactly the first user to have problems with outlines -- and will gladly refer you to useful documents that were posted five years ago dealing with exactly these problems. But you have to indicate in your subject line that you actually have a question about using Word. On Jun 29, 8:04 am, stevenjs wrote: Greetings, Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. I would be delighted to manually create everything without its "helpful" destruction.- |
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It was Sunday, too hot to go out for a walk and I was bored!
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: How is that a matter for helping you use Word? Save it for your blog, which no one actually has to read. Graham answered the question -- just as I expected, with the information you need -- while I was composing my message. I'm surprised that he had the patience to wade through all the verbiage to discover what you were actually asking. On Jun 29, 9:23 am, stevenjs wrote: The damage is already done. Which part of the 5000 words don't you get? All computing humanity is hostage. now that you've changed the title, can you answer the question? "grammatim" wrote: Are you a columnist, or perhaps a blogger, required to turn out 5000 words per issue, whether you have something to say or not? (I must say, that appears to apply to Vanity Fair's James Wolcott every few months.) I think your question is about managing Outline styles in Word2003, and the MVPs here are incredibly helpful -- you're not exactly the first user to have problems with outlines -- and will gladly refer you to useful documents that were posted five years ago dealing with exactly these problems. But you have to indicate in your subject line that you actually have a question about using Word. On Jun 29, 8:04 am, stevenjs wrote: Greetings, Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. I would be delighted to manually create everything without its "helpful" destruction.- |
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I do admire your torturing the dead metaphor into absurdities almost
matching OP's presuppositions! And in so many fewer words! On Jun 29, 10:19*am, StevenM stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote: To: Grammatim, I found it ironic that this person's "virtual" dream job included being sadistic tortured by snaked-haired Gorgon software which slapped him and stuffed things down his throat. No doubt, as he stared into his monitor, he was turned into stone, thus unable to get anything done. But when I dream about women -- and Gorgon was a woman -- I don't anthropomorphize software as a female character in my dream. But each to their own, I guess. Steven Craig Miller "grammatim" wrote: Are you a columnist, or perhaps a blogger, required to turn out 5000 words per issue, whether you have something to say or not? (I must say, that appears to apply to Vanity Fair's James Wolcott every few months.) I think your question is about managing Outline styles in Word2003, and the MVPs here are incredibly helpful -- you're not exactly the first user to have problems with outlines -- and will gladly refer you to useful documents that were posted five years ago dealing with exactly these problems. But you have to indicate in your subject line that you actually have a question about using Word. On Jun 29, 8:04 am, stevenjs wrote: Greetings, Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. 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Oh lighten up, folks. It was an amusing rant.
"grammatim" wrote: I do admire your torturing the dead metaphor into absurdities almost matching OP's presuppositions! And in so many fewer words! On Jun 29, 10:19 am, StevenM stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote: To: Grammatim, I found it ironic that this person's "virtual" dream job included being sadistic tortured by snaked-haired Gorgon software which slapped him and stuffed things down his throat. No doubt, as he stared into his monitor, he was turned into stone, thus unable to get anything done. But when I dream about women -- and Gorgon was a woman -- I don't anthropomorphize software as a female character in my dream. But each to their own, I guess. Steven Craig Miller "grammatim" wrote: Are you a columnist, or perhaps a blogger, required to turn out 5000 words per issue, whether you have something to say or not? (I must say, that appears to apply to Vanity Fair's James Wolcott every few months.) I think your question is about managing Outline styles in Word2003, and the MVPs here are incredibly helpful -- you're not exactly the first user to have problems with outlines -- and will gladly refer you to useful documents that were posted five years ago dealing with exactly these problems. But you have to indicate in your subject line that you actually have a question about using Word. On Jun 29, 8:04 am, stevenjs wrote: Greetings, Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. 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Really??? What was amusing about it? It wasted about 5 minutes of my
precious time!! And, I never found the question!! But, I guess that was his point all along - he wanted us to read his rant while searching for the question. "Helen" wrote: Oh lighten up, folks. It was an amusing rant. "grammatim" wrote: I do admire your torturing the dead metaphor into absurdities almost matching OP's presuppositions! And in so many fewer words! On Jun 29, 10:19 am, StevenM stevencraigmiller(at)comcast(dot)net wrote: To: Grammatim, I found it ironic that this person's "virtual" dream job included being sadistic tortured by snaked-haired Gorgon software which slapped him and stuffed things down his throat. No doubt, as he stared into his monitor, he was turned into stone, thus unable to get anything done. But when I dream about women -- and Gorgon was a woman -- I don't anthropomorphize software as a female character in my dream. But each to their own, I guess. Steven Craig Miller "grammatim" wrote: Are you a columnist, or perhaps a blogger, required to turn out 5000 words per issue, whether you have something to say or not? (I must say, that appears to apply to Vanity Fair's James Wolcott every few months.) I think your question is about managing Outline styles in Word2003, and the MVPs here are incredibly helpful -- you're not exactly the first user to have problems with outlines -- and will gladly refer you to useful documents that were posted five years ago dealing with exactly these problems. But you have to indicate in your subject line that you actually have a question about using Word. On Jun 29, 8:04 am, stevenjs wrote: Greetings, Don't let the headings throw you, as a usability analyst and interface designer practicing here in NYC, I assure you they are understated. I have found myself for the past two months in a virtual "dream job," in every respect that is, except that I am forced to use MS Word 2003 for documentation. The company is finally about to replace this Gorgon with software that does not subject its users to "software terrorism," but it has been a harrowing time indeed. Perhaps I am ignorant of some secret trick for turning off all of the terror tactics which MS Word employs, though not for want of searching its so-called "Help." If so, please tell me how to stop ALL of MS Word's automatic "you don't know what you want so I'm going to slap your face and shove what I think you want down your throat" features. You see, I am creating multiple outlines with screen shots and text. And Word seems to have a perverse, sinister and sadistic mind of its own. I try to separate the end of an outline, and restart it as a new outline. Word then spends five minutes destroying every outline in the document, then will not allow an undo, destroying the document. What ever could its designers have been thinking? Was it ever even actually "designed" by anyone? If such criminally obtrusive and unusable software is indeed a creature of design, and the world's adoption of it as a word processing standard is slavish obeisance to OS monopoly, then truly, de profundis, I despair of humanity. I use the word "terror" advisedly. I make a change to one of eight or ten separate outlines, say increasing the indent to the next outline level, and whoa, the hour glass pointer appears and persists interminably while I wait helplessly to see whether the software will destroy all my work up to that moment, result in unacceptable delays, earn disfavor higher up, cost me my dream job, render me unable to make monthly payments, and culminate in financial ruin, homelessness, and death. Though by no means predictable, most often the result of one keystroke, like a tab in the outline, when Word finally does render its twisted idea of my idea, is to transform the entire 8 or 10 outlines into one demon outline with fff) at my tab insertion point instead of the a) I expected and deserved. When this occurs, many, many times a day, I am jerked and abused through a gauntlet of emotions ranging from fear, terror, disgust, rage, and speechless bewilderment. Again, and again, and again. Now, it will no longer allow an undo, "too many edits" it perversely advises, leaving the document destroyed. Having software yank one's emotional chain is grossly abusive and arguably criminal, holding you at pointer's gun point while you wait breathlessly in a paralysis of fear to know your fate is nothing short of terrorism. Native, all-American terrorism practiced by one of the country and the world's leading corporations: Microsoft. In its world-standard Word product. I discovered, quite by accident, that (in most cases), the Cntrl Z or the undo command will cause the software to reverse its fascistic zeal and un-destroy my document, occasionally leaving me with something akin to what I desired and expected. This is the terrorist saying, 'well, I didn't actually harm you after all, did I?' As if terror were not terror if there is no bodily harm. Now it has escalated to bodily harm, disallowing undo, and destroying the document permanently. What disturbs me at least as much is that outrage against this treatment is not ubiquitous, is in fact absent, though mass demonstrations in the street would be a most appropriate response to corporate adoption of this insidious corporate terror. I dispair of a humanity that could adopt such junkware as a de facto WP standard, that could allow it to exist at all. If anyone knows how I can completely disarm the terror this application is programmed to inflict, please do let me know. 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