I'm no judge, I don't use it, I've only ever passed on information.

On 31/05/2013, at 7:00 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Actually, Windows 8 is not too bad, not nearly as bad as I have heard others 
> suggest it is.  Having used it for some time now on my HP Pavilion G6 
> machine, I am finding it very stable indeed.  Something which I find 
> refreshingly pleasant for anything Microsoft.  I am still amongst those who 
> advocate a total rewrite for the next version of Windows.  That said, I've 
> been hoping for that ever since the days of Windows 95, and I've been 
> disappointed on each occasion by just how much Microsoft has papered over the 
> cracks in every subsequent build.
> 
> Apple and other developers have actually done that with their operating 
> systems and it is high time Microsoft followed suit.  I think I'm going to 
> have to renew my MSDN membership at some point so that I can at least have my 
> say on the forum.
> 
> Anyway, I will let the group know how things go.  As a result of my playing 
> around with Office 2010 I've discovered that if I right-click or use the 
> applications context key with a portion of text selected, I can then apply a 
> style to that text by typing in the name or part of the name of the style.  I 
> can also select most of that from a list, which is actually a very nice idea. 
>  Having edited a file on the Mac using Nisus Writer Pro, I'm having to clean 
> it up a lot to remove unwanted invisible characters and line feeds, so that I 
> can neatly organise the items using Word.  The files don't appear to be in 
> any way wrongly formatted under Nisus, but interestingly enough Pages doesn't 
> show me any format info either.  I won't discuss OS X apps here because it's 
> off topic.  But I have to admit that selecting styles and processing various 
> elements of documents seems to be far cleaner under Word 2010 and later than 
> I ever remember it being under Office 97, 2003 or 2007.  It'll be i
 nt
> eresting to see what happens when I try with Word 2013.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
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> On 30 May 2013, at 20:21, Dane trethowan <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Don't know how you'll go with that, I know a lot of users who use
>> Thunderbird but not under Windows 8, holding off the install of Windows 8
>> until the major upgrade - free of charge to Windows 8 users by the way
>> <smile> - is released, some radical changes are to be made which affect
>> accessibility and appearance.
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