Comments on: Time Spent Authoring Report in Microsoft Word

By: Thisisnotausername

Thisisnotausername — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:04:11 +0000

Dang straight!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:22:09 +0000

…also time spent thinking about how you were on your Mac at home using Pages to create an even better document in a third of the time

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:21:10 +0000

must add for time spent restraining yourself from chucking your mouse across the room

By: dr-spangle

dr-spangle — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:51:57 +0000

You have some crappy computer if OpenOffice causes it to crash… Firefox takes longer to load than OpenOffice…

By: Keith Johnson

Keith Johnson — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:24:27 +0000

Whether you use MS-Word or Open Office, there is always the issue of pre-formatting, to some extent. This is just the way it is with Word Processing software, unless of course you want to write your own Word Processing software, or use a program like Notepad, etc. Be glad there are all the options available in both Word and Open Office that allow you to produce some really great documents. You might not agree with me now, but I am sure that at some future point you will – when you see how both Word and Open Office are amazing platforms to create documents with all kinds of cool components – pre-formatting is especially good to help those that have no clue to word processing. For those of us who understand it, just change the settings, right?

By: Roflberry McLovin

Roflberry McLovin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:23:55 +0000

Why don’t you noobs just do the easy way like I do. Just stare at the screen until it shows you the document you wanted to write with the formatting you wanted in final draft, with impeccable spelling and grammar, flawlessly fact-checked and cross referenced. EZFTW

By: khendar

khendar — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:39:32 +0000

Bingo. Takes under a minute to turn autoformatting off.

Or just use Notepad if it bothers you that much

By: NHK

NHK — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:51:53 +0000

There’s also a robot on mine o.O

By: thepahtone

thepahtone — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:16:53 +0000

It needs another big slice for closing the clipboard

By: Christy

Christy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:51:57 +0000

Hilarious

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:21:27 +0000

It’s only expensive if you’re dumb enough to buy it.

By: docutopian

docutopian — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:07:05 +0000

SO true.
Still figuring out–still swearing.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:59:30 +0000

I am sssoooooooooooooooooooooin agreement…

By: callumny

callumny — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:47:30 +0000

Time spent actually learning to use Word… 0%

Just turn off autoformatting if you don’t like it.

On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, and then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
Select or clear the options you want.

You can also turn off Clippy. Could you take 10 seconds to click on the “Help” menu and find out how to do this? Why don’t you just use a fucking typewriter?

By: vervain

vervain — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:05:42 +0000

Actually, it IS that simple and you CAN turn everything off.

It’s just that no one bothers to learn how, just like they couldn’t be bothered to learn how to do things like bullet lists, headings, etc.–which is why Microsoft decided it would be “helpful” for the program to do those things automatically. Ironic, huh?

By: cjk

cjk — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:49:59 +0000

LyX as best replacement for writing.

By: NewdestinyX

NewdestinyX — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:25:37 +0000

If it were that simple — no one would be empathizing with this graph. The fact is you ‘can’t’ turn off all aspects of autoformatting in Word.. That’s the reason it’s such a PAIN.. Once a “heading” is established it can’t be easily deleted.. You’re just stuck..

By: Joolz

Joolz — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:50:22 +0000

Add “barbels” to your dictionary and you’re set.

By: Joolz

Joolz — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:49:18 +0000

Oh jeez. I still haven’t found where they put some of the functions. Whose idea WAS that?

By: Rybe

Rybe — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:24:04 +0000

By far the most accurate graph on the entire website

No…stop it…why did the entire paragraph indent?! NO! GO BACK HOME! I DON’T WANT A BULLET THERE STOP IT RAGGLEHABGS *crash as computer flies out window*

By: grossenburger

grossenburger — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:39:43 +0000

Sex with Clippy. *masterbates*

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:34:27 +0000

Except Wordpad doesn’t have a double-space function, so you have to do
it yourself, and that wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that IT
DOESN’T TELL YOU WHERE THE LINE ENDS, so you have to repeatedly
check the Print Preview to see when you go over.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:32:27 +0000

Anakin, join the Dark Side! I can save Padme, I promise not to call you Ani,
and I’ll give you cookies!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:30:43 +0000

I don’t think it would be quite that much. In fact, you could shrink that to around 10% of the time and add 50% for “Choosing a font you like”, and a bit for “Fixing the AutoCorrect changes that you know are wrong”. You have no idea how hard it is to write about how fish use their barbels when it keeps changing it to “barbells” (They are two different words; barbels are like whiskers, barbells are for weightlifting.)

Also, why Notepad pwns with its minimal functionality.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:26:39 +0000

You guys realize you can change Clippy to something else? There’s a dog,
a cat, a red circle, a crappy windows logo, the Earth, Einstein, and on some
computers, there is a wizard.

You can also download more that people have made (I’m going to get one
of a Metroid)

By: podgirl

podgirl — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:06:19 +0000

“I see you’re trying to get laid. Can I help?”

By: snafutti

snafutti — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:55:56 +0000

separate graph, honey. separate graph with lots of swears.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:48:41 +0000

I see what you did there. +1

By: yakov!

yakov! — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:41:32 +0000

Don’t forget Trying To Figure Out 2007.

By: raelalt

raelalt — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:56:17 +0000

Yes, individually and each format option seems to be in a different menu.

By: raelalt

raelalt — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:54:52 +0000

This is so right on! This is why I went back to Word Perfect.

By: Asagaya

Asagaya — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:11:09 +0000

Precisely the reason why I just started to do all my reports in high school in HTML/CSS. Tell the printer not to print page information, and you’ve actually got a decent report if you have any knowledge of either. (Though if you can use CSS, you probably know HTML, too. Otherwise, you’ve gotte yourself more backwards than you think.)

After I got used to it, I was actually able to churn out papers faster.

The only problem is Notepad doesn’t have spell-check, so I have to rough draft in MS-Worthless anyway or take care of errors myself.

By: vervain

vervain — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:44:43 +0000

Y’all know you can turn the autoformatting fuction OFF, right?

By: Athanar

Athanar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:00:56 +0000

It’s mostly because Microsoft Office autoformats everything for you whether you want it or not. That’s why I hate it so much. (I use WordPad.)

By: likeswordshatesWord

likeswordshatesWord — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:30:21 +0000

Word.

By: Joolz

Joolz — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:07:08 +0000

OMG! The story of my life!

By: Glenda

Glenda — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:49:57 +0000

Try the remove hidden data tool. You’ll have to google for the URL, but it strips out edit and owner info.

By: ClickClickNow

ClickClickNow — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:19:30 +0000

I live for these graphs.

How long till the next one?

*pout*

By: fluffy

fluffy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:00:50 +0000

I’ve never been on the other side. Is it the dark side? Do they give you cookies?

By: adskfjö

adskfjö — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:46:48 +0000

i lol’d

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:30:44 +0000

FTW!

By: Miss Antipodes

Miss Antipodes — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:38:05 +0000

Ah, that’s what that sexy devil “Clippy” is for!

By: brewski

brewski — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:20:21 +0000

I’ve never heard of someone using MS Office to get laid, but hey, I don’t know everything.

By: herk

herk — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:00:20 +0000

This is the f***ing truest and therefor funniest graph I haver ever seen on this side

By: sCYTHe

sCYTHe — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:01:46 +0000

THIS MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH!

By: His_Steveness

His_Steveness — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:24:46 +0000

Hurm.

I keep hearing all these horror stories about MS Word and Windows and everything, but I never had any problems myself.

I do use OpenOffice nowadays, though. Mostly because of the “free” thing.

By: ggnamedrop

ggnamedrop — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:16:41 +0000

maybe he meant “for mating” and forgot to put the space in there…
either way, a spelling error

By: Fluffy

Fluffy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:40:43 +0000

*gives brewski the golf clap*

By: brewski

brewski — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:41:11 +0000

Speeling police FTW!

By: brewski

brewski — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:39:56 +0000

In money and disk space and time and energy. If it wasn’t used by 95% of the computers in the world, no one would use it at all!