Betalogue

Is there any other Mac OS X application on this planet where you can be in the process of typing text in a table:

and all of a sudden you get this:

?

It truly is remarkable. I have said it before and I’ll say it again: Microsoft Word 2008 is pure, unadulterated crap. It’s not worth the plastic used to produce the discs.

Meanwhile, my wife is still using Microsoft Word 2004 (because she needs some VBA macros for her work) and the application is crashing nearly each and every time she attempts to print a document.

What am I supposed to tell her? What am I supposed to do? How can any reasonable human being justify spending any amount of time trying to find ways to work about Microsoft Word’s endless list of bugs, flaws, and general insanities?

Based on my parents’ hair colour, I don’t expect to go grey any time soon. Then again, since I am still forced to use Microsoft Word on a regular basis for my work, I wouldn’t be surprised if I started going grey sooner than expected.

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at 2:37 pm and is filed under Microsoft. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.