Comments on: Rant: Never Upgrade http://www.murraywilliams.com/2004/06/20/rant-never-upgrade/ Random notes on life, coding and politics Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Carole E. Mah http://www.murraywilliams.com/2004/06/20/rant-never-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Carole E. Mah Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.murraywilliams.com/wp/?p=14#comment-9 The Word upgrade isn't as bad as those other two sound. We had to do the Word upgrade at work in order to be able to use Entourage with our stupid Exchange server for email. I haven't noticed any crashing, or slowness, and the only thing that irks me about it is the same thing that always irks me about it -- it tries really hard to 'help' you by indenting things you don't want indented, "correcting" your spelling, and transforming all URLs into these annoying links. I am aware that one can turn these features off in the Prefs, but they still annoy me SO much. And OpenOffice stopped working when I upgraded to Panther, so it pretty much has to be MS Word. The Word upgrade isn’t as bad as those other two sound. We had to do the Word upgrade at work in order to be able to use Entourage with our stupid Exchange server for email. I haven’t noticed any crashing, or slowness, and the only thing that irks me about it is the same thing that always irks me about it — it tries really hard to ‘help’ you by indenting things you don’t want indented, “correcting” your spelling, and transforming all URLs into these annoying links.

I am aware that one can turn these features off in the Prefs, but they still annoy me SO much.

And OpenOffice stopped working when I upgraded to Panther, so it pretty much has to be MS Word.

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