How can any application be such an incredible pile of crap? To the team that built it: Hang your heads in shame. You are NOT WORTHY.
Seriously, I've SEEN Word Docs that people send to me, in the WILD. I've made them myself. They're always an abomination of mis-mangled styles, fonts, and formatting. People are just happy as HELL to get through with what they were attempting to do....
Right now I just started a .doc. Pressed CTRL+A, changed font to Verdana. Start typing... create a little logical outline that I'll get back to... I type a heading, another heading, a sub heading, and some bullets. I go back in, change the headings to Heading2s. Hit carriage returns after the Heading2s and YEAY, it changes my font back to 12pt (good job), but the FONT is TIMES NEW FREAKING ROMAN.
I try other approaches, no matter what I do I keep winding up with Times New Roman - 12pt font (I've tried changing it to 10pt soooo many times).
That, and it sounds like a drunken SAILOR is working in my office. (And this guy can CURSE).
You can change the default font for Word by going to Format, Font, Default.
Posted by: Hassan Voyeau | August 16, 2005 at 07:59 AM
Hey Hassan, Thanks for the pointer. That works and all, but I frequently do some docs in Tahoma, others in Verdana, and many in Arial. It just KILLS me that hitting a carriage return in a document can shift my font... Frankly, the product sucks and only a lack of solid competition keeps it alive. Don't get me wrong, I'm a TOTAL MS Fanboy, but if you were to try and make the argument that MS doesn't innovate, Word would be the poster child - it's so backward compatible and bloated that it's hardly a productivity enhancer. For example, I LOVE that you set page format settings by going to Page | Setup (shouldn't that be in the Format menu?). Or that in order to format you headers/footers you have to look in the view menu... ? That's not innovation. That MS fearing to break with the past and confuse customers who've grown accustomed to where certain things are. But if we're NOT going to change anything, what's the point of making new versions every 2-3 years. /rant
Posted by: Michael K. Campbell | August 16, 2005 at 10:20 AM