Microsoft Office 2003, Oh How I Loathe Thee
Let me count the ways.
#1: I can never use you to type up blogs ahead of time so that I can take advantage of your spell-check and grammar features. Every time I copy text from you and then post into a blog form, a bunch of gibberish is the result.
#2: Every time I copy and paste text from one of your documents into another, the indentation of several paragraphs is changed. These changed paragraphs seem to be determined randomly. It is quite irritating. A 100 page document becomes a 104 page document because of the changes.
#3: You seem to believe "laying" and "lying" are the same words, and sometimes tell me that I'm incorrectly using them. When I want someone to be telling lies, you tell me they should be laying down.
#4: Your help file is unhelpful. The search feature is able to locate everything except what I want to know. It took me half an hour just to figure out the small blue question mark hidden at the top right of the screen is the button for accessing the help menu.
#5: The new user interface is more complicated than it needs to be. I was happy with the simple drop down menus and popups. Why does everything need to be in a frame? Every time I try to find a feature, I feel like I'm Indiana Jones trying to solve a puzzle by randomly pushing hieroglyphic buttons to see what happens.
#6: You appear to have lost the ability to embed images into documents, not just link to them. At least, the help file doesn't make any mention of where this function went. This makes it harder for me to write my encyclopedia project.
#7: I had trained your predecessor to recognize the correct spellings of a wide range of mythological characters. Now I have to train you. Blah.
#8: While reading through my manuscript, I continue to find errors that I am absolutely positive that I fixed on a previous edit. Seriously, what the hell?
#9: In one document, you told me 'dieing' was a real word. It was not until I posted that paragraph into another word file that I realized I misspelled it. Why do you have no consistency with your spell check feature?!
I ended up purchasing you because my other hard-drive is incompatible with my new motherboard (SAS!) and I didn't have the Office XP CD anymore. As soon as I am able, I'm going to replace you with 2007, or whatever will be the newer version when I'm able to afford another word processor. Perhaps even Office XP if that one sucks as much as you do.
#1: I can never use you to type up blogs ahead of time so that I can take advantage of your spell-check and grammar features. Every time I copy text from you and then post into a blog form, a bunch of gibberish is the result.
#2: Every time I copy and paste text from one of your documents into another, the indentation of several paragraphs is changed. These changed paragraphs seem to be determined randomly. It is quite irritating. A 100 page document becomes a 104 page document because of the changes.
#3: You seem to believe "laying" and "lying" are the same words, and sometimes tell me that I'm incorrectly using them. When I want someone to be telling lies, you tell me they should be laying down.
#4: Your help file is unhelpful. The search feature is able to locate everything except what I want to know. It took me half an hour just to figure out the small blue question mark hidden at the top right of the screen is the button for accessing the help menu.
#5: The new user interface is more complicated than it needs to be. I was happy with the simple drop down menus and popups. Why does everything need to be in a frame? Every time I try to find a feature, I feel like I'm Indiana Jones trying to solve a puzzle by randomly pushing hieroglyphic buttons to see what happens.
#6: You appear to have lost the ability to embed images into documents, not just link to them. At least, the help file doesn't make any mention of where this function went. This makes it harder for me to write my encyclopedia project.
#7: I had trained your predecessor to recognize the correct spellings of a wide range of mythological characters. Now I have to train you. Blah.
#8: While reading through my manuscript, I continue to find errors that I am absolutely positive that I fixed on a previous edit. Seriously, what the hell?
#9: In one document, you told me 'dieing' was a real word. It was not until I posted that paragraph into another word file that I realized I misspelled it. Why do you have no consistency with your spell check feature?!
I ended up purchasing you because my other hard-drive is incompatible with my new motherboard (SAS!) and I didn't have the Office XP CD anymore. As soon as I am able, I'm going to replace you with 2007, or whatever will be the newer version when I'm able to afford another word processor. Perhaps even Office XP if that one sucks as much as you do.