Help !K Again!

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, servinashadows at ... wrote:
>
> If anyone out there has done what Carol did and updated to Word
2007, I have run into that problem at my job.? Because I work in an
English Department at a midwestern university, and instructors were
complaining about 2007, I found a way to change the default in 2007 to
97-2003 defaults.? E-mail me off list if you want those instructions.? 
> 
> Lynda

Thanks, Lynda. I do that, too, because most of the people I share
documents with use older versions. But I still miss Word 2000, which
was *much* simpler to use, geared toward simply formatted, "typed"
manuscripts (which most publishers still prefer) instead of colors,
images, and fancy fonts.

"Styles"? I'll take "Normal," thank you, even for titles and heads.
Just double-spaced, twelve-point Times New Roman with no boldface or
fancy formatting that the typesetter will have to undo. (Unless, of
course, the publisher *requires* special formatting, as with the
manuscript I'm currently editing, which have to be submitted and
copyedited one at a time, annoying as that is to me.)

Even worse, every time I add a comment or query to a long manuscript
in a recent version of Word (2002, 2003, 2007), the stupid Review Pane
has to update itself. Imagine the long wait when I have, say, three
hundred comments in a 600-page manuscript! I don't have the time or
the need to take a coffee break or a shower every time the stupid
program has to adjust itself. (Yeah, I can try to edit the chapters of
long projects one at a time and paste together a whole document that
way, but I shouldn't have to!)

If you (generic "you") need all that fancy stuff, go ahead and
upgrade, giving yourself about a day to adjust to the changes from
Word 2002 or 2003 and several days, if you're upgrading from Word 97
or Word 2000. But if you just want to type documents that resemble the
ones we used to compose on a typewriter (minus the extra space after a
period), keep your old version. JMO, as Alla says! Or JMVSO--just my
very strong opinion!)

My apologies for the rant, but Microsoft should have left Word 2000
alone (it works perfectly for *word processing*) and developed a
different program for people who want to publish brochures and
whatever else the "improved" Word is good for.

BTW, Potioncat, if you haven't solved your monitor problems yet, we
can talk about that again offlist when I get through with this project.

Carol, still waiting for today's chapter and not happy about it