Except it’s not quite that simple. Is anything?
Just returned from a great holiday in the Austrian/Swiss
Alps where we travelled on the Bernina Express (three spectacular glaciers) and
the Glacier Express (but saw no glaciers on the Davos-Andermatt section). Okay,
so I’ve got a thing about glaciers. There are worse things to be awed by.
Like Microsoft.
Yep, I returned to find Windows 7 had updated. For reasons
too complicated to get embroiled in, I still use Word 2002. Hey, if I’d had the
choice I’d never have abandoned WordPerfect, but we all have our crosses to
bear. Windows 7 comes with Word 2010 Starter. I tried it when I bought the new
laptop. It attempted to wreck the formatting of my then work-in-progress so I
installed good ol’ 2002.
But due to the recent updates my system will not recognise
Word 2002, only Word 2010, and my files are a sea of orange icons – Argh!! It’s
enough to send me into the arms of Apple. If Microsoft would stop “acting in my
best interests” and merely work I wouldn’t be spending all tomorrow
uninstalling and reinstalling software.
Any odd sounds detected could be a gnashing of teeth.
Get a Mac, Linda. What more is there to say?
ReplyDeleteOh, you Mac converts! I get the same smug response from every side - LOL!
DeleteThankfully the system is now sorted, Word 2010 is no more, and the laptop purrs like a contented moggy. Bliss.