[muglo] MS Word woes ?!
- From: Ilbert Walker <walker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:24:48 -0500
Kathryn
I'm just a novice in these things , but from reading your cri-de-coeur,
it strikes me that you might save yourself a lot of hassles by
switching word processors?
Have just discovered this alternative WP - Meliel, for academics which
seems to be getting rave reviews from ex Word users
http://www.redlers.com/mellel.html
Might be worth exploring - and then dumping Word!
From my own recent experience in switching to Panther (and losing all
my URLs, Address Book and Email ) I recommend lots of backing up and
treading carefully, where even angels fear to go ! :-)
With current SW problems I have with Safari and Mail, under Panther, I
find it useful in deciding whether I'm a dummy, by finding others with
like problems - by attending the Apple Support Discussion groups ( some
are so negative I'm amazed that Apple allows them! ) and also to access
VersionTracker
http:/www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ , and read the Users comments on
any Mac Software . Reassuring - if not inspiring ! and perhaps better
than pressing the delete key 39 times !! :-)
Good luck
Ilbert
On 12 Jan 2004, at 2:42 AM, Kathryn-Jane Hazel wrote:
> Hi Eric:
>
> I've installed lots of RAM; I now have 640 MB, and I had my computer
> password reset, so I can install new software. But I am still having
> problems.
>
> I had an episode of kernel panic once again when I left the PowerBook
> in sleep; this was after I had re-connected my USB hub (it's an Adesso,
> model AUH-103).
>
> I disconnected it but still had strange stuff happening, such as the
> scattered screen when I exited MSWord before putting the computer to
> sleep (Take a look at the pictures on the www.blackcider.com site; that
> is what's happening, and this is after my logicboard was replaced).
>
> Other stuff that happens is I opened up my MSWord files and they were
> blank, except for a tiny screen in the top left-hand corner that looked
> like the kind of screen when you open up an Excel file, except there
> was nothing in it either. This was after getting a message that the
> Excel application had quit - just as I was waking my computer from
> sleep. (I had been using Excel the night before.)
>
> The other glitches are that sometimes it is extremely difficult to
> select copy to move it within a document, and other times it works
> fine; sometimes I can't de-select copy, despite clicking on my mouse
> six, seven, a dozen times; sometimes I can add words to my dictionary,
> and other times not; sometimes page layout shows my documents in
> WYSIWYG, and other times in tiny unreadable type; strange dialogue
> boxes pop up unbidden; documents that I want to save to disk keep
> opening up, no matter how many times I try to close them; and on and
> on.
>
> This is the laptop from hell. Although these may seem like small
> irritations, they are adding hours and hours to my work, because small,
> simple tasks like moving copy take me minutes instead of seconds
> because of the problems with selecting and de-selecting, and having to
> close these @#$%^&* dialogue boxes and trying to save files to disk
> which keep opening up and/or giving me messages such as "Do you want to
> revert to the saved document?".
>
> My external floppy disk drive is a macally, as is my mouse; my printer
> is a Brother HL-1435. These are the only external devices I use, and I
> now connect them one at a time rather than use my USB hub, which is
> also irritating and time-consuming.
>
> I haven't installed OS 10.3.2 yet, but if this keeps up, I will. If I
> do that, though, do I need to save my bookmarks and e-mails? I
> understand that to do that I have to import them - whatever that means!
> (I'll get help for that, too.)
>
> Is MS Office 10.1.5 really that much better? You say that it isn't as
> satisfactory as Word 98, which I also liked, but alas, can no longer
> use.
> I will upgrade to that if it is worth it - I'm desperate!
>
> Anyway, I am very pessimistic about what can be done with this machine.
> Fortunately I have AppleCare for another three years, but I don't
> know
> if I can stand it for that length of time. (I just tried to select a
> letter in a word I had misspelled and it took me 39 tries before it
> would do it).
>
> I did not have any of these problems until after I upgraded to OS
> 10.2.8, which is why I am wary of upgrading to 10.3.2.
>
> I hope there is a solution. If there isn't, will Apple give me a new
> PowerBook - or will they say it's a software problem, so tough luck?
>
> Cheers (sort of),
>
> Kathryn
>
>
>
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