MS Office 2007 has been a refreshing change from the older version and I really liked how they made features previously hidden under some obscure menu or dialog box more accessible. I generally use Open Office because I'm an Ubuntu (Gutsy) user, but due to a battery life problem under Gutsy, I've been booting Windows (read Wincrap) a bit more than usual on my laptop. Back to MS Office: I was working on a resumé today, when a couple of things really started to piss me off.
Every time I make a text selection and hover the cursor over the highlighted text, a translucent formatting toolbar pops up making it difficult to select text right above the current selection. Another thing that really made me want to pull my hair out was that changing the style of a portion of text cannot be undone using the Undo button. Several times, I accidentally clicked the wrong Quick Style button and lost several minutes worth of careful formatting choices. To make matters worse, the style applies to text at all sorts of random locations besides the selected text. Argh! It's a resumé and every little thing takes so much effort to place! Using Word 2007 for this project was a cruel experience.
The last and probably most annoying thing about MS Word 2007 is that I am now forced to boot Windows whenever someone sends me a file saved in the new .docx format. I might just be reinstalling the old MS Office pretty soon. Or hopefully, someone will figure out why battery life sucks so much ass on the same hardware under Gutsy.
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