I hate WORD...

[alfreda89]

So I am doing a very important document -- a critical document. My resume. I need three columns of bullet points, and don't really want to toss in three lines of actual columns. So I just yanked out a bullet symbol, and built the columns using tabs.

Then I go to draw a straight line of underline. Every time one of the lines goes over BY ONE CLICK to the next line, Word regretfully informs me that it HATES the document, is killing it, and wants to send a report.

I think we're up to four times now, and Microsoft is getting heartily tired of the Error Reports.

* STABBITY * STABBITY * STABBITY *

Time for a lunch break.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It really is the most frustrating programme. What I hate most is when it turns my scene breaks into Proper Technical Document Breaks. Because, y'know, there is only one kind of writing... Headdesk.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

You are not alone. I don't link my chapters together, and that's part of the reason. I'm ready to try linkage on the current book, but dreading it.

[abwarwick.livejournal.com]

why don't you create a table?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

For 1/8th of a resume? Because I thought Word would swallow me whole. I use the basic program a lot, but not some of the advanced uses. I just don't have a lot of need for the bells and whistles. I need a good text manipulation program.

[abwarwick.livejournal.com]

are you using MAC or PC?
I thought the same as you, but my advisor talked me into using tables -- and it is a lot easier to do the spacing.

For MAC, go to Table, click on insert table, and then decide on how many columns you want. when you fill in a row, hit tab, and a new row will be created.
To get rid of the borders, select the table, then go to format - borders and shading, and select 'none'

for PC, it's very similar.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

If it gives me any more static, I'll give it a shot on my PC. Thanks for sending the instructions!

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

The troll has discovered computers. (Perhaps a small picture of a gargoyle stuck to a corner of the screen and another on the keyboard!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I have some great gargoyle pics of a neighbor's gargoyle -- maybe I should make one of them into a screensaver!

[lingster1.livejournal.com]

This is why I stick with WordPerfect.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I was once married to an IBM man who insisted on PC/Word Perfect. I should have put up more of a fight!

I love Word for other reasons

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

but not for formatting.

The main reason is that I can view a lot of different kinds of files and determine if I can turn them into coherent databases or if the people sending them to me for that task are smoking crack at work.

I also use it to write fiction, a very basic task. I usually turn auto spell and auto grammar off because they are irritating when writing fiction, especially fantasy fiction.

My main hate is that Word 6.0 for the Mac was perfect, but they kept f-king with it to make it spiffier and etc.

Do NOT ask anyone who does desktop publishing or manages a printing service to take a word .doc that has been used to do "layout" to do it. It does not work. Neither does MS Publish. The criteria, vectors and etc. are wrong and the programs that capture and make things printable just cannot do it.

Re: I love Word for other reasons

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Yes, I strip all the control stuff out of Word in a text file before going to WordPress, so I know what you mean about using it for layout. THOUSANDS of formatting codes that just makes things worse when you try and use Dreamweaver to strip the code out.