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I knew MS word was stupid, but...

I have seen Microsft Word do some very stupid things. I have been infurated by the stupidest behaviour imaginable.

But sometimes it manages to be so amazingly idiotic that it still surprises me....


I was 19 pages into a technical report that I am submitting to the public consultation on the upcomming Communications Bill, when clippit helpfully said:

http://www.David.Robinson.org/mp3board/word.png


I always want to say "Yes - if you're so clever, you write it!"

David.

EDIT: Sorry - is this too far off topic?

I knew MS word was stupid, but...

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I knew MS word was stupid, but...

Reply #2 –
hahaha I love it

I knew MS word was stupid, but...

Reply #3 –
lol, very funny

I knew MS word was stupid, but...

Reply #4 –
lol!!!

I got Office XP Pro (ED discount) recently and I thought clippy was gone, unfortunately when I clicked Help>>Show Office Assistant that little SOB attacked me!!!

The next thing I did was hide him, but he wanted revenge.  Without fail the little turd attacked me several more times, at least twice per doc. That pissed me off, so I started up the Office uninstaller, located Office assistant and removed it. I defeated Clippy

Personally, I much prefer StarOffice/OpenOffice Writer & Calc compared to their M$ counterparts. Much more stable and pleasurable to use.

I knew MS word was stupid, but...

Reply #7 –
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Originally posted by Trelane
Many people have probably seen this, but it's worth a chuckle: http://www.visar.com/AssistedSuicide.gif


Everyone might have seen that, but it still one funny pic.

I knew MS word was stupid, but...

Reply #9 –
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Originally posted by Trelane
Many people have probably seen this, but it's worth a chuckle: http://www.visar.com/AssistedSuicide.gif




...you may start laughing but it was new to me...

Thanx for posting the link... 
 

I knew MS word was stupid, but...

Reply #10 –
on a related note: I misplaced my word 95 cd (yes, its that old.  what reasons are there to upgrade?  works fine in win2k too), and needed to get an essay typed up in a hurry.  Cue the Staroffice download... 

Installed it, ran it, typed my essay; finished, began to spell-check it.  Found and error, clicked replace...  clicked replace...  clicked replace again.  No response.  The damn thing stopped responding and had to be closed with task manager!  I type fast, and it had been two hours since my last save, too.  Thanks Sun, great way to chase me back to MS.  btw I finished typing the essay in wordpad; I've NEVER seen wordpad crash