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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2009-02-19 11:17 pm

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ooo, and the second fun thing of the week? Powerpoint being set by default to adjust text to fit the text box... So I go to set the font of some text to size 28, and it momentarily sets and then changes to something smaller. Like "Ha ha, you thought you could just DO that, huh? No, I'm afraid I don't agree with your formatting decision. Just gonna... fix that for you. There. Isn't that better?"


I found it in the settings and turned it off, but it was definitely a stabbity stabbity moment.


And I won't even go into how Office 2007 can supposedly save presentations to be 2003 compatible but for certain settings that appears to involve making lines of text into images that will not be editable by someone with the older software...
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[identity profile] phawkwood.livejournal.com 2009-02-20 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Bill knows what you should be writing... trust Bill...

I don't like the new office, 'cuse there's no way I've found as yet, to make it look like the old office. I have no budget or time for IT training for my chiefs (the primary users of Office at my department) and the new UI is so radically different from the old that they (neo-Luddites that they are) are completely lost. The tech savvy can figure it out, the no-so-tech savvy just get frustrated.

New things are neat and wiz-bang, but they don't always serve the user best.