Part 22: I've now found that 5/20 common words that I have to define aren't found in Microsoft's shoddy dictionary. Have to invoke OSX dictionary, but of course, it means switching windows, which for Microsoft Office 2008, is most frustrating.
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Part 22: I've now found that 5/20 common words that I have to define aren't found in Microsoft's shoddy dictionary. Have to invoke OSX dictionary, but of course, it means switching windows, which for Microsoft Office 2008, is most frustrating.
this is developing into a running gag :) Nice work MS.
Yeah, it might just end. You know, I wrote 5/20 predicting that the dictionary portion would fail. Haha. I was at 4/20 words from a list that a group of middle school students should know and decided that probably one more would fail. It did.
It's funny that people have been putting up with such rubbish software for so many years. If I did't have to use exact templates, Pages (for my non-scientific uses) is far superior in fit, function, form and use. And it's one year older to boot.
Addendum 135b: When using multiple windows, saving in one window will often (about 40% of the time) move to the other window. How is that supposed to be productive? Really, I don't understand how Microsoft pulled this off as a paid product. No one ever should have to pay more than 100$ for such a piece of unfinished crap. It is very much like buying the AMP3 Pro 2 digital audio player for 169$ and finding that it freezes, hisses like mad, has pretty bad earphone pairing, and then the developer abandons it completely.
Microsoft's answer after 1-2 years in production? Bring out Office 2011 - very very poor form. This software should be fixed; no one should have to buy another software just to bypass the manifold issues here.
Rating: Slap it!
Never ending rant:
Been working one one file for about 40 minutes... saving every 2. Word crashed and guess what? nothing, not a thing was saved - at all. Recovery didn't work on 3 documents, but the one, the most important one is completely useless.
Microsoft: just get your horrid software working; I'd settle for the worst ergonomics and ignorance of OSX shortcuts as long as the software didn't eat my documents and about about total of 2 hours of work today.