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[farla]

I have a new laptop. (Better still, a new laptop without having my old one break first!)

There is exactly one thing I don't like it, which is that it comes with a webcam. A webcam is one of those things that I would pay extra to avoid. And it comes with a manual volume control! That was probably my most important consideration. There's also a neat toggle for on/off wireless, which I wanted but wasn't expecting to get. On top of all this, it was cheap, probably because I'm not supposed to want these things.

Navigating the programs is an exercise in horror. I didn't really realize how much I'm avoiding standard products until I saw what sort of stuff is coming preloaded. It's enough to make me want to replace the whole operating system on general principles. The new version of Word believes hitting the enter key means you want a double return! No, Word, if I wanted that I'd hit the key twice, like God intended! And I can't even find the undo button to tell it to stop autocorrecting what I type. It's too busy being shiny to actually function. I used Internet Explorer once, just long enough to find and download Firefox, and in that time my eyes began to bleed. Currently, I'm installing OpenOffice.

I just need a few more tweaks (stop grouping things on the taskbar, Pute-chan) and things should be perfect. Well, aside from the fact it's running Vista.

Now I'm off to see how many Youtube videos I can run at once.

Comments

[purple-drake.livejournal.com]

Is this Word 2007 you're talking about? I wanted to kill it dead when I realised I had it on my laptop and couldn't get 2003. D: I have no idea why they changed half the things they did.

In any case, if it is, then here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx

You can download a flash file which basically shows you where everything is in comparison to the 2003 program (assuming you know the 2003 program well). And then when you get used to it, you won't be all, 'wtf what do I do?!' when you come to a public computer with 2007 (which is the one and only reason why I stuck it out).

As for the double return thing, it's because for some reason the default spacing is now 10pt in between lines. D: I didn't even know you could set the default to zero, I've just been changing it manually every time I start a new file.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've used 2003, either. Come to think of it, I don't even know what the last Word version I used was - the last computers that we reliably used Word on have both been dismantled for years. We had the version that came with XP...

...wow. When I try to work it out, it's really been a long time.

[bay115.livejournal.com]

You probably got Microsoft Works Word then, not Microsoft Word when you first got the computer with XP. Microsoft Works is a similar and cheaper version of Microsoft Office. I remember buying my laptop years ago and it had Microsoft Works installed in there. I was fine with it for a while but for some reason they're not able to catch most of basic grammar (and I suck at grammar). O.o

[purple-drake.livejournal.com]

IIRC, all versions of XP I've ever used came with Word 2003 ... but then, as far as I'm concerned XP and Professional are interchangeable, so our computers may well have had the latter instead and I just can't remember. Whatever the differences are, I don't know them; that could well be one of them.

In any case, Farla, you could always try downloading the file and seeing if the version of Word represented in the program looks familiar; if not, then I guess that question's answered.