Re: Sodding Word
- From: Tim Streater <timstreater@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:46:18 +0100
In article <0001HW.C2D951870098E106F060B648@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:21:26 -0400, Steve Firth wrote
(in article <1i29qjl.zgchiw13zbchxN%%steve%@xxxxxxxxxxxx>):
From time to time Word has shown signs of working, although never as a
whole. For a brief period, Word for Windows 2 I think, it was almost
usable with the ability to flow text correctly around images and to
include documents at print time. It broke because including an external
document then screwed up page numbering and at that time Word did not
support custom counters.
The best version of Word was v 5 for Mac.
The current implementation is, on balance, about the worst ever.
Not even close. Word 97 holds the all-time title, just for its (in)security
features.
For example... let's say you're like a certain company I recently did some
work for. You have literally hundreds, no, _thousands_ of machines all
running WinNT 4. (I kid you not. NT 4. Jesus wept.) Most of them have Office
97 installed. Someone mentions to higher-higher that Microsoft has this
wonderful new OS available; higher-higher figures that now would be a good
time to move to WinXP. (I'm not joking...)
The IT department assembles a few test images, runs through all the apps in
use in the company, and pronounces everything ready for end-user testing. The
images are installed on end-user machines. The end-users love XP (in
comparison to NT 4, who wouldn't?) but report major problems with Office 97
in general and Word 97 in particular. They can't save files. They can't print
files. They can't run spellcheck. They can't create or modify styles.
Those of you who know Word might notice a common thread with those problems:
the Normal template. In Word 97, that file is in a subfolder inside the WinNT
(or Windows) folder. Under WinNT, normal users can access that folder. Under
Win 2000 and XP, accessing that folder requires admin privs. IT never noticed
because they'd done their testing using their accounts, which, of course, had
admin privs. (You may judge the quality of the IT dept, MCSEs all, by that
little item...)
Fortunately I know little about Office97 or Windows in general - but is
it not possible to define the location of the Normal template?
Presumably not or you would have mentioned it, but I would find it
surprising. Otherwise, how do they change the paper size, default
language, font, etc etc ??
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