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alexpgpI'm using Word, of course.
What the strength analysis hath given in terms of simplicity of wording, it hath taken away with a vengeance in terms of formatting and graphics. Word has crashed on me more times than you can expect to occur in your typical demolition derby, and for some reason, has decided to abandon rules for displaying pages (pages that are supposed to be shown in landscape mode are shown in portrait, though the setting for the page says landscape).
And silly lamb that I am, I keep forgetting to hit Ctrl-S after, say, every third keystroke. As stupid as that sounds, it's the only way to get anything accomplished with this miserable software.
This is getting tedious.
Cheers...
P.S. I'm beginning to think I was a little too generous with the crack about "every third keystroke" (not often enough). Then again, once I realized - silly bumpkin! - that the paste operation was the key to my problem ("Paste a text box or graphic, crash the app."), life became easier... kind of. Farblegarg.
What the strength analysis hath given in terms of simplicity of wording, it hath taken away with a vengeance in terms of formatting and graphics. Word has crashed on me more times than you can expect to occur in your typical demolition derby, and for some reason, has decided to abandon rules for displaying pages (pages that are supposed to be shown in landscape mode are shown in portrait, though the setting for the page says landscape).
And silly lamb that I am, I keep forgetting to hit Ctrl-S after, say, every third keystroke. As stupid as that sounds, it's the only way to get anything accomplished with this miserable software.
This is getting tedious.
Cheers...
P.S. I'm beginning to think I was a little too generous with the crack about "every third keystroke" (not often enough). Then again, once I realized - silly bumpkin! - that the paste operation was the key to my problem ("Paste a text box or graphic, crash the app."), life became easier... kind of. Farblegarg.
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Date: 2005-04-18 12:41 am (UTC)Do you patch sometimes? ;-)
Is your computer being kept well enough? ;-)
Sorry for asking that, but I am yet to recall a single crash of Word... and I do type a lot.
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Date: 2005-04-18 01:19 am (UTC)And I like to think I keep the machine pretty well tuned, cleaned, and free of nasties.
In my experience, problems like this tend to crop up in association with individual files whose contents appear to have been "shoehorned" in by their originators, containing non-editable objects, etc.
Cheers...
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Date: 2005-04-18 04:19 am (UTC)Was wondering what do you have to do to Word to make it burp. :)
I thought the AutoSave feature is very handy, because I'm just too lazy to press Ctrl+S all the time after an edit! :) Pretty much sure you know about it too - so thought why do you even have to press Ctrl+S manually? :)