Fun with Word

[snail1]

In my current document in Word, the grammar check is telling me to hyphenate the phrase "better known". Ironically, when I do this the same check tells me to remove the hyphen.......
At least it did not crash my PC in an endless loop. Perhaps the take home message is to learn some grammar and not rely on Word and Mrs Snail.

Anyone else have any interesting software foibles?

 

[Mat]

My Word doesn't complain about that...

 

[snail1]

It might be the context I have it in. I just loled at it getting its knickers in a twist

 

[Adam]

Never heard MS Word and "Fun" being used in the same sentance before.

 

[geuben]

Never heard MS Word and "Fun" being used in the same sentance before.

You've obviously never played word98 pinball....ok that wasn't very fun either.

 

[iSam]

Stupid program, I hate it.

 

[Freeman]

Never had a problem with it myself. I only ever see people who don't know what they're doing getting in a stress over it.

 

[Illusion]

Outlook 2003 constantly pesters me to replace commas , with semi colons ;.

 

[jas72]

Outlook 2003 constantly pesters me .

fixed

 

[Bes]

Stupid program, I hate it.

Do you know of a better alternative (genuine interest)

 

[snail1]

I found OpenOffice to be fine for my personal use. The only real issue was the occasional import/export with Word.

 

[DJsean]

Sean

 

[Kristoph]

Open Office is pretty good. As snail1 says, sometimes get some formatting and layout problems when opening word files in Open Office and Open office files in Word.

I currently use it on my PC, and have Office on my laptop.

 

[Sp!ke]

Open Office is pretty good. As snail1 says, sometimes get some formatting and layout problems when opening word files in Open Office and Open office files in Word.

I currently use it on my PC, and have Office on my laptop.

The price makes it even better For the minimal amount of word processing and spreadsheet work that I do it's perfectly good.