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Not hideous either, but Oh Microsoft, Why?
I mean, we did need to do a lot of figuring stuff out because we did a hard drive transplant. Fine. That's on us, and it worked.
I'm still setting up various programs and stuff, and figuring out which I can leave in the D hard drive and which I had really ought move to the C hard drive. (C is about 220 GM with about 40 of it free, while D is 2 TB, and I have impressed mneme, who now realized that, no, I am not fooling, a 1 TB drive really is too small for me. People do not believe me when I talk about my space requirements. 2 TB is the minimum. I'd feel more comfortable with 3. I'd like 4+ sure, but I will concede that 3 would do for a Very Long Time, and 2 will do for A While.)
I am trying to make the jump from Word 2003 to whatever version is on the new machine -- I think we're talking Office 2019? It's the I'm-a-person-not-a-business-and-I-want-to-buy-not-rent version. Unsurprisingly, I loathe a lot about the new version. So much unnecessary cheese moving and renaming, and just why does the file menu live in a sliding sidebar while the other items live on the ribbon?
There was much fighting with the software, but between mneme and I, we got Track Changes and Comments back well enough, and mneme assured me that one thing that took a long time to figure out a) was a thing that given the briefest of prompts from him, I did figure out mostly, and b) it was confusing as ^%&*(^ because the sub-menu listed three options in grammatically different ways, making it harder than it needed to be to figure out which one I actually wanted.
That left one thing I learned a workaround to. Previously -- in Word 2003 until some time later -- Word automatically numbered comments and showed those numbers. Why, oh why, oh Microsoft, have you decided we don't want to see these numbers? I WANT TO SEE THEM.
I am an editor. I when I go back and forth with co-workers and bosses on documents, referring to a comment by number is useful. Why is there no simple option to just show the numbers?
I found a workaround which involves a) formatting comment text so there are numbers AND b) using soft carriage returns within numbers, because if you don't, each paragraph, including empty carriage returns, gets numbered. This means, incidentally, that when I took a file, opened it in new Word, added the numbers, saved it, closed it, and opened it on my older machine with the older Word, each comment was numbered twice -- once by old Word's numbering system (which worked Just Fine), and once with my number. (Unsurprisingly, old Word's numbering is easier on the eyes.)
I see from my various searches that many other people want automatic numbering back.
I mean, we did need to do a lot of figuring stuff out because we did a hard drive transplant. Fine. That's on us, and it worked.
I'm still setting up various programs and stuff, and figuring out which I can leave in the D hard drive and which I had really ought move to the C hard drive. (C is about 220 GM with about 40 of it free, while D is 2 TB, and I have impressed mneme, who now realized that, no, I am not fooling, a 1 TB drive really is too small for me. People do not believe me when I talk about my space requirements. 2 TB is the minimum. I'd feel more comfortable with 3. I'd like 4+ sure, but I will concede that 3 would do for a Very Long Time, and 2 will do for A While.)
I am trying to make the jump from Word 2003 to whatever version is on the new machine -- I think we're talking Office 2019? It's the I'm-a-person-not-a-business-and-I-want-to-buy-not-rent version. Unsurprisingly, I loathe a lot about the new version. So much unnecessary cheese moving and renaming, and just why does the file menu live in a sliding sidebar while the other items live on the ribbon?
There was much fighting with the software, but between mneme and I, we got Track Changes and Comments back well enough, and mneme assured me that one thing that took a long time to figure out a) was a thing that given the briefest of prompts from him, I did figure out mostly, and b) it was confusing as ^%&*(^ because the sub-menu listed three options in grammatically different ways, making it harder than it needed to be to figure out which one I actually wanted.
That left one thing I learned a workaround to. Previously -- in Word 2003 until some time later -- Word automatically numbered comments and showed those numbers. Why, oh why, oh Microsoft, have you decided we don't want to see these numbers? I WANT TO SEE THEM.
I am an editor. I when I go back and forth with co-workers and bosses on documents, referring to a comment by number is useful. Why is there no simple option to just show the numbers?
I found a workaround which involves a) formatting comment text so there are numbers AND b) using soft carriage returns within numbers, because if you don't, each paragraph, including empty carriage returns, gets numbered. This means, incidentally, that when I took a file, opened it in new Word, added the numbers, saved it, closed it, and opened it on my older machine with the older Word, each comment was numbered twice -- once by old Word's numbering system (which worked Just Fine), and once with my number. (Unsurprisingly, old Word's numbering is easier on the eyes.)
I see from my various searches that many other people want automatic numbering back.