Category: the Rant Board
I had a semi bad day today at work. Not sure what version work has of Word. But everything was going well when I needed to wrap a image w/text in a document as we were making fliers for my interest groups for this month. Well here I go in the help file, and look up wraping image. I found the right topic but it says to select image, go into the format menu and select auto wrap. Well I spent 2 friggin hours as I was the only one in the office at the time looking for the item in the format menu! So after just playing around with the program I found the command. Select image, click on format menu, select pictures, select wrap tab. Yeah all that time I could've been helping a consumer and I managed to get the document done. Oh well it happens. So I know we're gonna reuse the format on the fliers for my interest group announcements so no more struggles but you'd think that Microsoft would know what they're talking about in the help file and in the program, instead of putting people on a wild goose chase for 2 hours.
That's microsoft for ya.
James.
P.S.,
Raping image... heh.
yeah, raping immage! Lol. That's... interesting. lol
I prefer doing a Google search for the problematic term rather than using the application's hel menu, it's often better, just figure out a phrase that describes what you want to do and type it into Google and often you get better results. This being said those types of stupid little things and problems comprise 90% of my job, hehe, programming is very frustrating business.
Cheers
-B
I don't like word much anyway. It's too fancy for mel ol! I like notePad or WordPad, bu sometiems i have to use Word for school to make things look right. But I too look questions up on Google and don't use help files. Caitlin
thing is 50/50 chance works ISP is gonna be down. Don't ask why as I'm clueless. But ya wildbrew I def. use google for all my help needs for word. But when you have no access to the net then you're stuck. Note pad is nice, however you would need to do it via html as it doesn't provide things like bullets, images etc.
Yeah. For my jotting purposes, NotePad is good, but if I have to format and do fancy stuff Word is definitely what I use. Heh. Caitlin
Wraping (which sounds like raping) image and the hel (which might as well be hell) menu; pretty funny typos today. I hate Word too, especially because the autoformatting stuff is such a pain to turn off.
I don't know about you guys but like ... they don't have proper list views or soemthing, they have these weird list box things and they like dont' work fo me lol.
Microsoft id a user feedback survey on what new features eople would like to see in MS Word. Turns out 65% of the suggestions for new features they received were features already in the system but no one knew about them .. says a lot for the quality of Word's documentation don't it . I'm not a big fan of the program, I think it's gotten out of hand, it's too big for 90% of what you need to do. I stick with notepad and UltraEdit (programming editor) for most of it only use Word for the fancy stuff and when I need to use templates etc.
It took me ages to figure out how to block paragraphs in word. The thing's just too cluttered and difficult to use! lol...
I use word because that is what I learned computers with. I recommend word if you are recording sensitive information because you can set passwords for your files. The down side is that it doesn't work with jaws. Jaws doesn't read the text accurately.
I have no problems with word and jaws. now notepad, is a differant story!
word doens't work with jaws? sorry? how does it not work with jaws? I understand there are some issues with office 2007 and jaws, but I have no problems with jaws and office 2003
It doesn't read the text accurately, meaning that when I use reading commands, it reads the document as though letters or words are missing, but they are really there. It also will say blank, when there is really text there. It mostly reads this way with documents I type. It does the same when filling out forms with iE 7. I use jaws version 7.0.
8.0 might work better. I haven't tried it yet, though
Dang! I wish I could upgrade. I used the demo of jaws 8.0, and it works flawlessly, and on the other hand, jaws 7.0 is crap!
Today I went to download a sylabus for one of my classes and got a message saying it needed to install a component. Then when I did it gave me an error message saying it couldn't find it. I think it has something to do with my teacher using ms office 2007 and me using 03. I also am having the problem with jaws not reading word documents correctly, as if letters are missing. Like it reads 2007 as 207 and it's not because I typed it wrong.
Well, it's a jaws thing that I really hate. What jaws version do you use?
If Word isn't being read correctly by JAWS, it might be one of the following:
Thanks a whole lot for the tips. I like office 2003. Do not get office 2007!