Quick question about Word.

[Patience]

Hi all, I hope you don't mind me using this forum like this but we have a slight issue at work and I thought you guys are probably likely yo know the answer to it.

My colleague was asking which version of word allows you to select multiple aresa of text holding down the Ctrl button. Is it 2002? We use 2000 at work (I don't - I hate Word and stick to Excel) and we would like to upgrade. Not specifcally to highlight multiple areas, but in general.

Thanks!

 

[Richard Schollar]

Hi

It certainly works in Word2002.

I loathe Word.

Richard

 

[Patience]

Thanks Richard. I'll let her know.

I managed to persuade them to upgrade me (and me alone in the company) to Excel 2003 from 2000 so manybe we need to launch a new assault on our IT department.

Word is horrid. In fact so horrid I could probably credit it with making me an accountant.

 

[SydneyGeek]

Word's not that bad!

Unless you want to
1. Sort a large table
2. Include calculations in that table
3. Automate anything (they made most of the object model a mystery)
...you know, do stuff.

Still, for creating reports and long documents it's hard to beat. Where Word goes wrong is when people who don't understand Excel or Access hand you this kludgy Word table with the comment "It's all in there!", and you spend half an hour / day / week (select which one applies) trying to turn the soup into data. That isn't necessarliy Word's fault -- they used the wrong tool for the job, and the tool obliged.

Denis

 

[Richard Schollar]

Denis, next you'll be claiming that PowerPoint isn't an evil tool of Satan...

 

[SydneyGeek]

Denis, next you'll be claiming that PowerPoint isn't an evil tool of Satan...

OK, here goes

Powerpoint is about the most abused part of Office. Again, not really PP's fault but I have sat through some real trash masquerading as a presentation.

Still, if you have a presentation in bullet form in PP, and you want to flesh it out in Word, try File > Send To > Microsoft Word. Select to just send the outline and you'll have it in Word, ready to annotate. Each slide title is Heading1. Subsequent levels become Heading2, etc.

You can push a Word outline the other way too.

So... getting out the cross and garlic for Word probably means you will for PP too, 'cos they work together pretty well :wink:

Got anything else?

Denis

 

[Richard Schollar]

Got anything else?

Denis

Oh man, I just know you probably get all sweaty when you think about Visio...

 

[SydneyGeek]

Oh man, I just know you probably get all sweaty when you think about Visio...

How did you know?

All those evenings spent trying to find just the right chair for the floor plan...
Actually, you can do quite a lot with it in code. Visio was bought by MS because they licensed VBA, put together a decent object model which suddenly made it programmable, and they were just down the road from Redmond. I've used it since Version 5, and have 2003 installed on my PC and 2007 available if I want it

Now, there's nothing like a good bit of HTML and CSS to keep me up half the night trying to get my latest layout to work in all the browsers

Yeah, I'm sick...

Denis