oh yeah. I was really angry about it at the time. Now, this not being my computer, I suppose it is possible that she set a global style somewhere, but the fact is that a fairly geeky obsessive compulsive *with an Office certification* was unable to figure out how to turn it off. I suppose it didn't help that I was getting imaginatively Irish over it and getting louder all the time, but still. It ain't supposed to be that hard.
The "you're" with Outlook problem I have had repeatedly and as recently as today, and it pisses me off all over again every time. Lord knows I'm capable of a typo, but that isn't one I would make and it is, in fact, one that particularly annoys me when I see it. Especially "corrected" into my work emails. Nothing like looking more ignorant than you already are. Thank you, Microsoft. I suppose this thread will inspire me to go and find that one since I have control over it, and turn it off, but *that* pisses me off all the more. There are better things to do with my time. I have an editorial meeting in eight minutes. Somewhere outside a sunset is happening, and somewhere out there Sam is insufficiently annoyed. Why should I be stuck reading help files over a problem that someone in Redmond only imagines that I have? How much better spent my time would be, oh, asking you what you think about Gonzales' lawyer taking the Fifth. Is all still well with your view of the world? Never mind, you don't have to answer that. Dana >The Office button thing did take some getting used to. But I think they >are trying to stop using words like file. > >A file sounds technical. It's a document now, or a workbook, or a >presentation. It isn't a file anymore. > >As for the autocorrect thing, I haven't seen anything happen that I >don't wouldn't want to happen. Have you really had that one example. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 7:52 PM >To: CF-Community >Subject: Re: [Computer] Beat Windows Vista Business Edition > >thank you both for pointing that out. I will tell the person who has >this behemoth on her laptop. > >I guess, though, that I just don't see a benefit to the the upgrade, and >certainly not one to justify that type of struggle. I don't want styles >to automatically "correct" my outline. I don't want the Spellcheck in >Outlook to relentlessly change "your user name" to "you're user name" in >my work emails. I just want a little word processor where I can >peacefully make a list without worrying about word wrap but also without >having to say noooo... I really *do* want this to be Roman numeral III. > >My question is, what is so much better about hiding the menu and putting >"Save as" under some hieroglyph for "Home" instead of under "File" where >they have very suggessfully trained users to expect it? It flies in the >face of usability as it has been explained to me, and if it does >something better it, this soomething does not appear to be something >that I do with Office. > ></rant> > >>> -----Original Message----- >> >>Yeah - what he said. ;^) >> >>I'm LOVING Office 2007. Bring on more WYGIWYS software! I'm through >with >>WYSIWYG! >> >>Of course I can't use it at the actual office (we're still on Office >2000 >>enterprise wide). >> >>It is a jarring change - but I found that after about a week I was >starting >>to "feel" it. Once you start picking up the underlying concepts a lot >of >>things become very natural (like this). >> >>I was really annoyed that I couldn't have my "Styles" gallery on the >right >>hand side like I'm used to... until I noticed the little chevron on the >>gallery elements that let you add them as explorer bars. Once I found >that >>most of my problems with it went away. >> >>My only real gripe is that MS seemed to pay lip service to Outlook and >>nothing more. It got some of the makeover (the message editor features >the >>Ribbon) but was left pretty much untouched at the core. I'm not that >upset >>- I still love Outlook (once I configure it correctly) but there are >some >>issues that have been outstanding for 10 years now (why can't I backup >and >>restore my email accounts!) >> >>Still, Word is a freakin' dream for me. >> >>Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231374 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
