Microsoft Strikes Again
I have really put up a tough fight but I am losing. And this is going to be a very short entry for just that conquered reason. An explanation? You want an explanation? Ok. Here goes:
I have fought against upgrading to Microsoft Office 97 with all its accompanying software because I really don't like it! I mean I really don't like it! It makes too many decisions for you and here in the office world we have only an on-line handbook to help and it is NO help. For instance, say you want to do a "hanging indent". Well in order to figure out how you simply go to the little question mark key and press it. Simply, right? No. Once there in "magic button land", you end up going through ten or twenty screens trying to find out what you needed. Trial and error on the keyboard would be easier and quicker (and is what I resorted to when upgraded to Windows 95).
Now I am told that the last of my guys here in the office is being upgraded. Well, here I go then too. I have no choice. Swept alone in the tide of modernization. And for my trouble I will no longer be able to write my HTML code in Word. It has too much of a mind of it's own! So in this "improvement" are the wounds of the lost battle: No spell check. Ahhrrrg. I am a rotten speller. And now I must forgo any artificial programs that will help me with this weakness. And if you think my spelling is rotten----get a load of my typing when I am distracted. Write becomes right where where become were and even to becomes two too. Now, please. I am an educated person. And I take a certain amount of pride in not massacring the English language too much. But I make these foolish mistakes when I am writing and thinking about what I am writing not the words that I am writing. And now you will no longer be safe from them.
I just had a thought. I am also getting ME explorer -eeeeeek there goes my Netscape, and oh, nuts...... a different mail program. Oh, this ought (aught) to be a real (reel) interesting. As best as I can tell, the e-mail list is running smoothly. Now I have to go and change *everything*. If you don't see me for awhile you will know it is not because I am busy with life or sick or tired or anything. It will be because I have gone completely insane trying to transfer all this stuff over to the new software (excuse me, new and improved software).
Well, here they are now, standing in my doorway with instruments of change in hand, The Men From The Computing Center. Bye! Remember me, if you will..................
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