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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.
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.
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I don't like it at all. Seriously. Oh, and having a new file format that isn't backwardly compatible with the most recent version of the app? Yeah, THAT was smart. :P
Oh, and congrats on the new computer. :)
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I'm beginning to understand why Office Home and Student is so cheap. It isn't because MS is trying a new pricing strategy; it's because otherwise they wouldn't sell it at all.
One of the reasons I am trying to figure out how to make Windows Explorer show me file extension (other than I'm a control freak and I want to know what the hell it is I'm opening) is so that I can verify I haven't saved a file in the *.docx format. I'm all of a sudden a LOT more understanding of my former colleagues in Germany who couldn't manage to send me files in the standard *.doc format.
Thanks. I wanted an iMac. I want to continue moving towards Mac. Alas, this was not the right time.
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It's just stupid.
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I've been pricing Office 2003 on eBay and find it's absurdly cheap. Cheap enough I worry about ending up with pirated software. *sigh*
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It won't give me Access, sadly, but I own a copy of Access 2000 and that's good enough for my current purposes. I really wanted to stop this pastiche of programs I have going but I don't see myself paying to keep Office 2007. Maybe I'll change my mind as I get used to it but the difficulty in saving files so that everyone else in the world can read them is quite annoying.
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In the start menu, type in "show file extensions." A folder options thing should pop up and you can uncheck a box that says "Hide extensions for known file types."
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