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Mar. 21st, 2006 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brainofckCrossposting this to both my journals.
I'm running Windows XP Home. I have stinky Microsoft Word 2003. (Microsoft got it right with Word 2000. They've been screwing up their own software for the past 6 years.)
I use both AOL and Explorer for web browsing.
Here's the problem.
If I am looking at a web page, say one of my journal entries, and I want to grab some text and paste it over to Word, I highlight the text, Ctrl C, flip over to Word, Ctrl V, and Word totally hangs. It's pathetic.
I didn't have this problem on my old computer and I don't have this problem at work. At work, I have a slight delay sometimes, and there's a tendancy for Word to put in a bunch of those little circles instead of spaces and soft returns instead of hard returns, but the paste essentially works.
At home, Word just dies.
Any thoughts about what is causing this and how to fix it? I thought it might be AOL's fault, as my usual MO is to blame AOL for everything because it sucks so, so bad, but this seems to be a Word problem, as it happens with Explorer, too.
I'm running Windows XP Home. I have stinky Microsoft Word 2003. (Microsoft got it right with Word 2000. They've been screwing up their own software for the past 6 years.)
I use both AOL and Explorer for web browsing.
Here's the problem.
If I am looking at a web page, say one of my journal entries, and I want to grab some text and paste it over to Word, I highlight the text, Ctrl C, flip over to Word, Ctrl V, and Word totally hangs. It's pathetic.
I didn't have this problem on my old computer and I don't have this problem at work. At work, I have a slight delay sometimes, and there's a tendancy for Word to put in a bunch of those little circles instead of spaces and soft returns instead of hard returns, but the paste essentially works.
At home, Word just dies.
Any thoughts about what is causing this and how to fix it? I thought it might be AOL's fault, as my usual MO is to blame AOL for everything because it sucks so, so bad, but this seems to be a Word problem, as it happens with Explorer, too.
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Date: 2006-03-22 10:20 pm (UTC)It is free, downloadable, free, cross-platform, free, does everything from word processing to spreadsheets and assorted other things that MS Office does but I really have no use for. Did I mention, free?
It's a good program. I'd use it at work if they'd let me download and install anything here, but all the machines at home are running it.
Only drawback is the availability of templates for various label sheet formats, but there is no reason to not keep a concurrent copy of Word if that will be an issue. (http://www.openoffice.org/)