Microsoft Word is made of evil
Jun. 13th, 2011 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesse... but I just bought and installed it, because I'm doing this very strange* editing job for the summer, and I needed access to "Track Changes." Okay, fine, it's just for this one job, I'll keep using OpenOffice for my own fiction/nonfiction/teaching, because I like open-source and because I can't stand all the damn pictures in Word 2007. Pictograms, not actually clearer than words!
As soon as I install and open the damn thing, most of the documents I have open in OpenOffice proceed to freak the fuck out. The type has gone all squishy and illegible - except for documents written in Garamond, i.e. all of my teaching stuff. I have not yet established if they'll go back to normal when I close the Devil Program. Meanwhile, if anyone has tips that will allow me to keep the program without it infesting my machine - it turned itself into the default application with which to open text files! all by itself! I don't want it to do that! - I'd be v. appreciative.
*kind of a "you know you're from Northern Michigan when" gig - my graphic designer mama and editor auntie are working on a locally-written self-published cookbook for dressing, prepping, and serving stuff you've hunted down and shot. Auntie got too busy, so I get the editing of the thing. At least, unlike the pair of them, I eat meat; they're both vegetarians. I now know way more than I ever wanted to about skinning deer and, I quote, "boning out shoulders." Ugh.
As soon as I install and open the damn thing, most of the documents I have open in OpenOffice proceed to freak the fuck out. The type has gone all squishy and illegible - except for documents written in Garamond, i.e. all of my teaching stuff. I have not yet established if they'll go back to normal when I close the Devil Program. Meanwhile, if anyone has tips that will allow me to keep the program without it infesting my machine - it turned itself into the default application with which to open text files! all by itself! I don't want it to do that! - I'd be v. appreciative.
*kind of a "you know you're from Northern Michigan when" gig - my graphic designer mama and editor auntie are working on a locally-written self-published cookbook for dressing, prepping, and serving stuff you've hunted down and shot. Auntie got too busy, so I get the editing of the thing. At least, unlike the pair of them, I eat meat; they're both vegetarians. I now know way more than I ever wanted to about skinning deer and, I quote, "boning out shoulders." Ugh.
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Date: 2011-06-14 12:30 am (UTC)I bet that Word 2007 is using a template that doesn't play well with your Open Office documents, but I *really* don't understand templates.
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Date: 2011-06-14 01:02 am (UTC)Ctr-A/Command-A (for a mac) works across all the software I know, thank heaven!
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Date: 2011-06-15 11:24 pm (UTC)I'm not sure what version of Windows you're using, but if you open any folder on your computer with text documents in and right-click on one of them, you should see an 'Open With' thingy. From there, if you follow it, you should get a choice that says 'Choose Default Program' and from there you can set OpenOffice back to your default.
I sort of find it amusing that two vegetarians are working on a book of dead-animal recipes. That may make me a terrible person. But yuck, skinning deer. I am fine with meat as long as I do not have to hunt it down and kill it myself. Or remove the parts that are not edible. >_>