[wplug] Microsoft Word 2002 sucks

[Jay]

I could not fix it.  I had to rewrite the paper using Cut-N-Paste



On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:17:05PM -0400, Kramer, James M - MSHA wrote:
> Excuse me for venting.  My organization recently upgraded to Window 2000 and
> Word 2002.  Word 2002 sucks.  Its logic of operation is so convoluted that
> it is driving me insane.  This morning I finished a simple technical report
> with a few pages of text and several figures at the end.  The document would
> not print-It kept hanging.  It keeps trying to recover an older version of
> the document.  Prior to this, I emailed a copy of the document to people in
> my group.  When you try to open the document, it asks the question do you
> want to save changes to the original.  This software is excessively
> complicated.  All I want do is type a simple research paper not publish the
> Encyclopedia Britannia to the web.  I sure hope that Open Office does not
> try to incorporate all the bells and whistles that Word 2002 has.  It is way
> over designed.  I was perfectly happy with the excessively designed Word 97.
> I spent the entire afternoon trying to print the document.  I need to come
> in tomorrow and try again.  What a Royal waste of time.  Thank you for
> letting me vent
> Jay
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