Formatting Fun
Typing and word processing is one of the elemental functions of a computer, correct? Correct. It’s what most of us do, day in, day out, on our desktops or laptops. It’s that or aimlessly searching for new shoes, old schoolfriends and shoot ’em up games on the internet.
That’s why I can’t understand the major gap that exists in current software. It’s 2012, we have voice recognition software, mobile phones thousands of times more powerful than the first ever computers… apple mac support london can fix pretty much anything, including your toaster. And yet it’s still really difficult to find a great word processing program.
Sometimes when I’m battling with Word I feel like grabbing a manual typewriter like the lady above! We’ve covered the odd spell check goof it’s prone to, but it’s the formatting that drives me mad.
The scenario usually plays out like this: I’m typing. Let’s say it’s at work. If it’s at work it’s probably a report of some kind. It’s most probably a little bit dull, and I’m hoping to finish it as soon as possible. Maybe it’s 4.30pm. Perhaps it’s a Friday. I’m really, really hoping to get out of work on time tonight. I’m going to add a little more tension: it’s my best friends birthday tonight and we have to be on a train from Waterloo to party-town at 5.35pm. I’ll never hear the end of it if I miss it. I need to get this done.
But Word has other ideas. I want to have several paragraphs inset from the main body of the report, all aligned. Word says no. Word wants them inset at several slightly different distances, and wants to make it impossible to make them line up.
I want to add (or delete) some text to one of the paragraphs. Word doesn’t like that. Word adds random spaces to the rest of the paragraph that then have to be laboriously removed.
Ad infinitum. Word has it’s own bizarre formatting rules that it works by that are seemingly known only to itself.
No surprise, I end up sweating and hunched over my keyboard at 7 minutes past 5, still formatting away. I make the party train (I don’t want to be too mean to imaginary-scenario-me) but only by the skin of my teeth. Ah, Word…
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