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 > > <--- Gordon Smith ---> > > <[email protected]> > > Telephone: > > United Kingdom: Free Phone: > 0800 8620538 > > Mobile: > +44 7907 823971 > > Europe and other non-specified: > +44 1642 688095 > > United States Of America And Canada: > +1 646 9151493 > Or: > +1 209 436 9443 > > Vic. Australia: > +61 38 8205930 > Vic. Australia > +61 39 0284505 > > Fax: > +44 1642 365123 > > Follow Us On Twitter: > <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> > > Skype: > <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> > > ------------------------------ > > On 30 May 2013, at 20:21, Dane trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > ======================================= > > To post to this group, please send your message to: > [email protected] > The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber > options page, located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at > either of the following websites: > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- > > > [email protected] ********** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- [email protected]
