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The previous page # in GO TO should be highlighted.
That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically
overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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The previous page # in GO TO should be highlighted.
In versions 2003/2007 of Word it IS highlighted
-- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "RogerKni" wrote in message ... That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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The previous page # in GO TO should be highlighted.
Great, I'll upgrade! (Actually, I'll wait for the 2007 version, since it'll
be along so soon.) Making its upgrades more attractive is the reason MS should remove these other little gotchas I'm complaining about. "Pat Garard" wrote: In versions 2003/2007 of Word it IS highlighted -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "RogerKni" wrote in message ... That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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If you haven't looked at Word 2007 yet, you probably should (on a separate
computer) before you do any upgrading. It will be a shock. -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "RogerKni" wrote in message ... Great, I'll upgrade! (Actually, I'll wait for the 2007 version, since it'll be along so soon.) Making its upgrades more attractive is the reason MS should remove these other little gotchas I'm complaining about. "Pat Garard" wrote: In versions 2003/2007 of Word it IS highlighted -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "RogerKni" wrote in message ... That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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If you haven't looked at Word 2007 yet, you probably should (on a
separate computer) before you do any upgrading. It will be a shock. It will give him a chance to start a new long list and then post another 20-30 suggestions  RogerKni, posting like 20-30 things in as many threads for small issues really isn't well received by the people reading all those messages (none of us work for Microsoft by the way). You could have made our life a lot easier if you had aggregated all the bookmark stuff in one post for example and instead of posting them as suggestions, asked about it. Obviously consulting Help before posting is also appreciated. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "RogerKni" wrote in message ... Great, I'll upgrade! (Actually, I'll wait for the 2007 version, since it'll be along so soon.) Making its upgrades more attractive is the reason MS should remove these other little gotchas I'm complaining about. "Pat Garard" wrote: In versions 2003/2007 of Word it IS highlighted -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "RogerKni" wrote in message ... That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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So it is. I guess this was fixed behind my back, because I complained about
it for several previous versions. I virtually never used that dialog (and for that reason), but now perhaps I will. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarard-bigpond:net:au wrote in message ... In versions 2003/2007 of Word it IS highlighted -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "RogerKni" wrote in message ... That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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I've posted 13 suggestions, not "20-30." I regard your exageration as an
indication that other criticisms I've received have been similarly overstated. As for the separate thread issue, I went to the Invision forum-software site a year ago and posted four related suggestions in one thread, and was thoroughly ranked out for not putting them in seaparate threads, as "any idiot would know to do." So, I feel like I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. But I believe that, since these are separate suggestions and deserve to be separately voted on, I was right to submit them as separate threads. I'd have preferred to submit these to MS's old suggestion box (or whatever name they used for it), rather than post them on a forum, but MS has discontinued that site. I wish they'd revive it. I concede I have been careless in not going over all this to make it more bulletproof to criticism, and in nmot explaining the particular context of some of my suggestions. (For instance, about the cursor not appearing in the right hand Go To box after page is clicked in the left-hand box.) But I dispute the idea that that's a major flaw in what I've done. For example, regarding the spaces-forbidden gotcha in Insert Bookmark, it doesn't matter that I could have found the answer if I were more diligent. The bottom line is that it would improve Word's friendliness if that gotcha were fixed. These are all constructive suggestions. "Patrick Schmid" wrote: It will give him a chance to start a new long list and then post another 20-30 suggestions RogerKni, posting like 20-30 things in as many threads for small issues really isn't well received by the people reading all those messages (none of us work for Microsoft by the way). You could have made our life a lot easier if you had aggregated all the bookmark stuff in one post for example and instead of posting them as suggestions, asked about it. Obviously consulting Help before posting is also appreciated. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "RogerKni" wrote in message ... Great, I'll upgrade! (Actually, I'll wait for the 2007 version, since it'll be along so soon.) Making its upgrades more attractive is the reason MS should remove these other little gotchas I'm complaining about. "Pat Garard" wrote: In versions 2003/2007 of Word it IS highlighted -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "RogerKni" wrote in message ... That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Ah Suzanne - I might have said something useful at last!!!
`[:-} -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... So it is. I guess this was fixed behind my back, because I complained about it for several previous versions. I virtually never used that dialog (and for that reason), but now perhaps I will. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarard-bigpond:net:au wrote in message ... In versions 2003/2007 of Word it IS highlighted -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "RogerKni" wrote in message ... That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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The previous page # in GO TO should be highlighted.
You say useful things quite often. This time you've said something useful to
me. g -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarard-bigpond:net:au wrote in message ... Ah Suzanne - I might have said something useful at last!!! `[:-} -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... So it is. I guess this was fixed behind my back, because I complained about it for several previous versions. I virtually never used that dialog (and for that reason), but now perhaps I will. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarard-bigpond:net:au wrote in message ... In versions 2003/2007 of Word it IS highlighted -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "RogerKni" wrote in message ... That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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A large part of the problem with the reception for your suggestions is that
this newsgroup was set up to assist people with problems through peer support. Volunteer users giving their time and experience to other users in need of quick help. Unfortunately, Microsoft, which hosts the newsgroup, tacked on to their web interface the idea of giving suggestions to Microsoft. You are right that as suggestions to Microsoft they are appropriate. In this case, putting them in a single post would have worked well for getting them across but would not have allowed individual ones to be "voted on." I don't know that anyone actually does vote on them; they don't through the news interface. Unfortunately, this idea of giving a new task to an already overburdened support system gives poor results to those who are providing the peer support. To them, your approach comes across like that of the new kid in school pointing out how much better things could be done, like they were in his old school. You are trying to help Microsoft make a better product, those who responded are trying to help people use the current version as well as possible. I was initially very annoyed at your posts. I still am, but at Microsoft and not at you. -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "RogerKni" wrote in message news  I've posted 13 suggestions, not "20-30." I regard your exageration as an indication that other criticisms I've received have been similarly overstated. As for the separate thread issue, I went to the Invision forum-software site a year ago and posted four related suggestions in one thread, and was thoroughly ranked out for not putting them in seaparate threads, as "any idiot would know to do." So, I feel like I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. But I believe that, since these are separate suggestions and deserve to be separately voted on, I was right to submit them as separate threads. I'd have preferred to submit these to MS's old suggestion box (or whatever name they used for it), rather than post them on a forum, but MS has discontinued that site. I wish they'd revive it. I concede I have been careless in not going over all this to make it more bulletproof to criticism, and in nmot explaining the particular context of some of my suggestions. (For instance, about the cursor not appearing in the right hand Go To box after page is clicked in the left-hand box.) But I dispute the idea that that's a major flaw in what I've done. For example, regarding the spaces-forbidden gotcha in Insert Bookmark, it doesn't matter that I could have found the answer if I were more diligent. The bottom line is that it would improve Word's friendliness if that gotcha were fixed. These are all constructive suggestions. "Patrick Schmid" wrote: It will give him a chance to start a new long list and then post another 20-30 suggestions RogerKni, posting like 20-30 things in as many threads for small issues really isn't well received by the people reading all those messages (none of us work for Microsoft by the way). You could have made our life a lot easier if you had aggregated all the bookmark stuff in one post for example and instead of posting them as suggestions, asked about it. Obviously consulting Help before posting is also appreciated. Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net -- 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "RogerKni" wrote in message ... Great, I'll upgrade! (Actually, I'll wait for the 2007 version, since it'll be along so soon.) Making its upgrades more attractive is the reason MS should remove these other little gotchas I'm complaining about. "Pat Garard" wrote: In versions 2003/2007 of Word it IS highlighted -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "RogerKni" wrote in message ... That way the user who hits Ctrl-G and enters a new number will automatically overwrite it. He should not have to manually erase the old entry. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Hi CharlesI didnt notice your post until two days ago. (Ive had a bad
crash and couldnt check back here until recently.) Ive discovered that there is a Send Feedback on Word option in the Help menu in Word 2004, which Ive acquired on the Mac, so Ill use that in the future. I congratulate MS on including such a mechanism. Ill also flesh out the suggestions Ive made here with the additional material Ive been spurred to create by the criticism Ive received. Maybe that fuller exposition will result in their being accepted rather than rejected! However, I too am annoyed at MS for funneling suggestion-box input into your product-support forum. It should have either set up a separate room on this site for such Suggestion-box input, or flagged it with prefix-text explaining its nature, to soften the reaction the regulars here to it. FYI, heres the link to the first in a pair of data-entry forms that I used: http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...4-91038e3eb1e9 ) The text there reads: *** Frustrated? Got a great idea? Want to see a new feature? The Microsoft Community is a public forum where you can submit suggestions for Microsoft products and see suggestions that others have made. Community participants vote for suggestions, and Microsoft uses the votes to help prioritize features in upcoming versions. Each month, Microsoft will respond to the suggestions with the most votes. Start by entering your suggestion below. We'll search for it in the community and if your suggestion already exists, you can add your vote to it instead of posting it again. Enter your suggestion in a brief sentence (4-10 words) Example: Outlook should let me change the meeting organizer. *** The above implies that one thread per suggestion was desired. Since I wanted to avoid repeating myself (a bad idea I now realize), I molded the rest of my suggestion, beneath the subject line, so that it was a continuation of iti.e., as though the subject line had been the first sentence. And I also made another decision that would have been OK in other circumstances, but not he I tried to maintain stylistic consistency between my lead sentence and the rest of my text. This resulted in an overly terse suggestion. I should have tested the waters first by making just a couple of suggestions. One other annoyance of MSs submission form is that, when it was unable to post a suggestion to the discussion group due to heavy traffic, it erased the users data. ======================= "Charles Kenyon" wrote: A large part of the problem with the reception for your suggestions is that this newsgroup was set up to assist people with problems through peer support. Volunteer users giving their time and experience to other users in need of quick help. Unfortunately, Microsoft, which hosts the newsgroup, tacked on to their web interface the idea of giving suggestions to Microsoft. You are right that as suggestions to Microsoft they are appropriate. In this case, putting them in a single post would have worked well for getting them across but would not have allowed individual ones to be "voted on." I don't know that anyone actually does vote on them; they don't through the news interface. Unfortunately, this idea of giving a new task to an already overburdened support system gives poor results to those who are providing the peer support. To them, your approach comes across like that of the new kid in school pointing out how much better things could be done, like they were in his old school. You are trying to help Microsoft make a better product, those who responded are trying to help people use the current version as well as possible. I was initially very annoyed at your posts. I still am, but at Microsoft and not at you. -- Charles Kenyon |
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Hi Roger,
Just by the way, since you also have a Macyou may be interested in Mac-specific newsgroups: See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups The Help | Send Feedback in MacOffice goes only to the MacBU (the group doing MacOffice), not to regular WinOffice. No idea whether feature ideas travel both ways in that setup. I think, because of the volume of users, a Help | Send Feedback in WinOffice would not really be so feasible. The newsgroup system ought to allow repeat requests to bubble up and actually get evaluated, but I've no idea whether it works in practice. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ On 9/26/06 6:11 PM, "Roger K" wrote: Hi CharlesI didnıt notice your post until two days ago. (Iıve had a bad crash and couldnıt check back here until recently.) Iıve discovered that there is a ³Send Feedback on Word² option in the Help menu in Word 2004, which Iıve acquired on the Mac, so Iıll use that in the future. I congratulate MS on including such a mechanism. |
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