JDWTopGuy's Journal: A frustrating Experience with Microsoft Turd, er, Word

Okay, so I'm helping a friend with her computer today. She has the tendency to somehow get a bunch of blank lines in the header of her Word documents, and of course when that happens I have to fix it.

So me, I sez to my self I sez, "Why not make a macro, stick it in the menu and then she can fix it herself!" A brilliant idea, so I record the macro. Easy as cheesecake. Then I go Tools->Customize and drag the macro to the Tools menu, rename it "Remove Header", and ta-da. I'm done, right?

So I go through a ton of her files and use the macro to fix the ones that need fixing. So far, so good.

Then I quit Word and restart it so I can show her how to do it... and the menu item is nowhere to be found. I tried a ton of things and I simply couldn't get the stupid menu item to stick.

I hate Word.

Meanwhile...

[Feztaa]

meanwhile I am exporting my resume to PDF from openoffice so that any potential employer that I email it to can read it without difficulty... mwahahahha :)

You have to save the macro!!

[Organized Konfusion]

did you update normal.dot with the macro?

Re:You have to save the macro!!

[JDWTopGuy]

Yes, the macro got saved but the menu item didn't.