tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141313224798481619.post3342943160833562025..comments2024-01-11T15:14:09.152-05:00Comments on Romance Writers Behaving Badly: Tip Top Grammar TipsCailin Bristehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16210469124316577849noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141313224798481619.post-39850440159802434352011-08-04T12:09:17.139-04:002011-08-04T12:09:17.139-04:00I hear you Savanna. I've worked with MS Word s...I hear you Savanna. I've worked with MS Word since 1990. 21 years. Learned a whoooooole bunch of tricks in that amount of time. Could make Word do anything I wanted. Loved it. <br /><br />WARNING: Rant ahead<br /><br />Microsoft decided to pitch it in the trash and come up with a completely redesigned format (Word 2007). They threw things on the menus up in the air, and however they landed, that's how they got put on the new "ribbons" -- basically sidways menus. No more File, Edit, View, Insert menus, just little boxes with pictures that take up the upper part of the page. They made the default font "Calibri" - whose bright idea was that? They hid everything I loved about the old version in obscure locations.<br /><br />So I'm keeping 2003 until it refuses to run on anything anywhere, or they go back to a version that makes sense. This one's nuts. If I used it (poor hubby is stuck with it) I'd spend half the day trying to find things that used to be a button click. If it ain't broken, don't screw with it! Invariably, the people who rave about the new version never used the old one. <br /><br />Someone will post now and tell me how wrong I am, and how much better the new version is. That's okay. They probably didn't spend 20+ years getting to know a good co-worker they could trust to do what they needed, only to have that co-worker supplanted by an idiotic interface that plays guessing games with you. That dependable co-worker is what Word 2003 is to me. I'm hiding mine until they pry it out of my cold dead keyboard.<br />****** rant ending ******Kayelle Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02833531229634787728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141313224798481619.post-56984027161524893852011-08-03T14:37:09.075-04:002011-08-03T14:37:09.075-04:00Excellent, Kayelle. I have to say my mind turns to...Excellent, Kayelle. I have to say my mind turns to mush at times over the whole comma and dash thing. <br /><br />I do put a space when I use ... in blog posts because it looks much better. Of course, in a mss I have to try to remember to leave out the space. <br /><br />Using the computer was supposed to make writing easier, faster. In some ways that's true... but, in other ways it's a damn headache that eats up time... unless, of course, you're savvy and know how to program it the way you want. I'm not.Savanna Kougarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15698138048388102279noreply@blogger.com