Journal TechnoLust's Journal: MS Office 2003: When did they start THIS shit? 11
I gave up on MS Office after Office97 and have been using OpenOffice for a while now. (And StarOffice8 on my solaris boxen at work.) Today I was on my windows box and needed to do the cool little "hold down ATL while dragging and select a rectange" then delete that rectangle. Office let me highlight and I hit delete... and nothing happened. I hit delete again. Still nothing. I hit backspace... nope. I finally cursed Microsoft aloud then tried CTRL-X which worked. WTFSoF? So I highlighted (without ALT) a word and pressed delete and STILL NOTHING HAPPENED. That was when I noticed down in the status bar and little text message saying "Delete Block? (Y)es (N)o" or something like that. If I hadn't wanted to delete it, I wouldn't have pressed the muthafuckin' delete key. If I pressed it accidentally, I'd hit the damned Undo button. Thanks MS, you just doubled the amount of work it takes me to delete a word. Good job numbnuts. Now, where's my OpenOffice installation CD?
Maybe revision control was on (Score:2)
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Vi Vi Vi (Score:2)
http://www.winvi.de/en/ [winvi.de]
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That said, thank you, TL, for that alt-select trick! I didn't know about that one!
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noob (Score:2)
Don't you have google on your internet? (Score:2)
Open Office... (Score:1)
because for the first time I have a damn word processor/spreadsheet that does WTF -=I=- tell it to, not what some damn programmer THOUGHT I wanted it to do...
Thank you, thank you, thank you!