Don'tcha just love Word 97...
Tuesday, October 14th, 2003 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanHmm.
For some reason over the past couple of days my office computer has decided that it will display a margin on the left-hand side of my word documents while I'm typing.
To begin with I found this disconcerting but now I've got used to it. And it's especially reassuring that every time I hit return, the computer writes normal in the margin.
How nice.
Quite what is normal, your guess is as good as mine, but it's nice to know that something is in this turvy-topsy world of ours.
Of course, it's difficult to decide just how much trust I can put in this machine. It has its own quite definite but inappropriate ideas on how to format so much of the stuff I type on it. I mean with indents and paragraph numbering in particular, it likes to do its own thing.
And there's something about deleting half a paragraph from the middle of a document. It's as if the processor thinks to itself in a sort of Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen way "I know you've done all this work in 12 point Ariel, but now you've trimmed out those five sentences, I really think the rest of the paragraph would look simply stunning in 10 point Times New Roman."
Well it doesn't, thanks for asking. It looks bloody stupid.
And what's with this making me chase indents around the page when I'm trying to line up text?
Don't think it will work on me, cheerfully writing 'normal' in the margins.
For some reason over the past couple of days my office computer has decided that it will display a margin on the left-hand side of my word documents while I'm typing.
To begin with I found this disconcerting but now I've got used to it. And it's especially reassuring that every time I hit return, the computer writes normal in the margin.
How nice.
Quite what is normal, your guess is as good as mine, but it's nice to know that something is in this turvy-topsy world of ours.
Of course, it's difficult to decide just how much trust I can put in this machine. It has its own quite definite but inappropriate ideas on how to format so much of the stuff I type on it. I mean with indents and paragraph numbering in particular, it likes to do its own thing.
And there's something about deleting half a paragraph from the middle of a document. It's as if the processor thinks to itself in a sort of Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen way "I know you've done all this work in 12 point Ariel, but now you've trimmed out those five sentences, I really think the rest of the paragraph would look simply stunning in 10 point Times New Roman."
Well it doesn't, thanks for asking. It looks bloody stupid.
And what's with this making me chase indents around the page when I'm trying to line up text?
Don't think it will work on me, cheerfully writing 'normal' in the margins.
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Date: 2003-10-14 10:26 am (UTC)The ten point font thing drives me potty.
I even set the default font to being something else and it still does it.
Grrrr.
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Date: 2003-10-14 10:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-10-14 11:11 am (UTC)hrm...
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Date: 2003-10-14 05:04 pm (UTC)If I knew how to do all that stuff I doubt I'd be lumbered with Microsquash in the first place! ;-)
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