Microsoft Word - the work of the devil

[Bozza]

Seriously, is this the most unintuitive piece of shit to grace a computer anywhere ever?

It takes 3 hours to write a document, and then another 13 hours to get the formatting right. Well, sort of right - you get close enough and just give up for fear of regressing back to an absolute mess.

Like playing football on Boxing Day - it shouldn't be this difficult, should it?

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

What would you still suggest as an alternative?

 

[bristolseagull]

Seriously, is this the most unintuitive piece of shit to grace a computer anywhere ever?

It takes 3 hours to write a document, and then another 13 hours to get the formatting right. Well, sort of right - you get close enough and just give up for fear of regressing back to an absolute mess.

Like playing football on Boxing Day - it shouldn't be this difficult, should it?

sounds a bit like you don't know how to use it properly....

 

[Bold Seagull]

I've been using both OpenOffice and LibreOffice and both are better than MS Word, and both are free. I'm leaning toward LibreOffice as it allows you to import password locked .pdf files and edit them - very useful.

 

[The Large One]

You're right - Word sucks. Use InDesign.

It's just words and formatting - and formatting on InDesign is a PIECE OF PISS.

 

[Camicus]

I use Open office free and works well

 

[Bozza]

On a laptop issued by my place of work, I have no choice as to what I use, alas.

I shall battle through and hope I make it out the other side. I may be some time.

 

[Simster]

Correct, [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION]. I have spent the last THREE days working on an issue involving pasting press standard graphs from Excel into Word 2010. It is absolutely wank, very much like the Windows operating system it tries to run on.

 

[Mellotron]

Correct, [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION]. I have spent the last THREE days working on an issue involving pasting press standard graphs from Excel into Word 2010. It is absolutely wank, very much like the Windows operating system it tries to run on.

Importing stuff from Excel to Word is always a horrific and ugly procedure.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Importing stuff from Excel to Word is always a horrific and ugly procedure.

Too true. If you weren't told, you would absolutely never have guessed they were from the same company.

 

[Mellotron]

Too true. If you weren't told, you would absolutely never have guessed they were from the same company.

Definitely. Want to drop a table from Excel into Word? Word will act like the table's come from another planet.

*awaits condescending comments from people who have learnt all the knacks you have to use to make it work, thus missing the entire point that it should be a very simple "drag'n'drop" type procedure*

 

[8ace]

Write the document in a text editor and then get some other chump to do all the fancy formatting in microsloth turd.

 

[Colossal Squid]

Word 2011 on my Macbook is driving me f***ing NUTS today.

Despite the fact that it is set to UK ENGLISH, the automatic spellcheck keeps altering words without warning, replacing S's with Z's and removing NECESSARY U's from words willy nilly.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Microsoft Word has to be the worst thing EVER! The most user-unfriendly system known to mankind ( and womankind).

Bloody thing's got a mind of it's own and I've always hated using it.

Luckily, the amount of letters etc that I have to do now are few and far between.

 

[Weretheweststand]

More like Microsoft products - the work of the devil

 

[sten_super]

Too true. If you weren't told, you would absolutely never have guessed they were from the same company.

As I understand it they are completely different teams within Microsoft (and were originally completely separate companies purchased by MS) which is why there is so little compatibility. Not that I'm giving them an excuse - it's piss poor. Surely this kind of cross-usage should be one of the benefits of belonging to a giant company?

Write the document in a text editor and then get some other chump to do all the fancy formatting in microsloth turd.

I have to do this with all of the text that we write or receive from others - 'wash' it through notepad before bringing it in to our house style document, even if it's from another Word document. PITA.

 

[fruitnveg]

Works fine for me

 

[jackanada]

Now entering my fourth year of not having any Microsoft products. Whatever other problems I have dealing with their shit is not one of them.

Om... Shanti

 

[father_and_son]

Importing stuff from Excel to Word is always a horrific and ugly procedure.

Don't! Copy from Excel and paste as Device Independent Bitmap. You lose the connection to original spreadsheet and it won't update automatically, but so much easier to work with and closer to wysiwyg than pasting an Excel Chart Object.

 

[RexCathedra]

Learn LaTeX. It'll take three months, but then you'll be able to do anything, and I mean anything, like parallel Greek-English-Coptic Bibles.