hsapiens: strutting human skeleton (Heroes -- Hiro "I Will Save You!")
hsapiens ([personal profile] hsapiens) wrote2009-12-15 01:37 am
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Yatta!

I have a new computer! (Well, a new CPU.) It runs Windows 7 -- and I'm favorably impressed. It's well-designed, it runs ALL of my favorite freeware downloads, it runs the 32-bit software I already own, and it runs all of my hardware of varying ages. Sad that this is a surprise but I'm grateful nonetheless. If I can just figure out how to make Windows Explorer show me the file extensions, I'll be a happy camper. (I'm sure I'll get used to the loss of menus in various applications but I'm slow at adapting to this particular change.)

I cannot say the same for Word 2007. What in the world did they do the menus? More importantly -- WHY?!? It took me far too long to figure out how to find, "Save As..."

In a perfect world, I'd have purchased a 27" iMac, a brand new license of Photoshop CS4 for Mac for it, and had two huge monitors. (I dream of having all the Photoshop palettes on one screen and my graphic on another.) Alas, money was the determining factor so I chose to go with a Windows box. I'm not unhappy, though, as my new toy is zippy and works with my very nice quality speakers, my printer, my monitor, my array of external hard drives, and my iPod.

[identity profile] shadownyc.livejournal.com 2009-12-15 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the new computer. At work we use PCs so I'm more than familiar with WORD 2007 and ITA with your concerns.
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[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com 2009-12-15 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. My last desktop was purchased in 2000 so I'm enjoying all these new fangled USB 2.0 connections. :)

I'm glad to hear it isn't just me having issues with Word 2007. It didn't help that I activated it just to work on a resume to send out last night -- and was completely lost. Not the time one wants to discover they've messed up the program. I'll be pulling out my old Works 2003 package and installing it.