I just installed Office v.X, running 10.1.2.
From day one, this garbage has been buggy as hell. What happens is, the toolbar icons randomly grey-out and I cannot use them. Things that should be available, like dictionary, spelling, or table, are greyed-out even with a document window open.
I can fix it by doing several things:
1. Quit and relaunch Word.
2. Open the customize menu, then close it. Sometimes I get the toolbars to work.
3. Create a custom toolbar, put all the icons I want to use in it, and then use it. Icons don't malfunction in a custom toolbar for some odd reason.
Funny thing about a custom toolbar, is that the formatting pallet doesn't genie into it, it simply appears and disappears. Not a big deal, but odd behavior.
I really, really hate M$ products, and I swear they must intentionally cripple their software for the Mac. It just seems that in Office 2001, and now Office v.X, there are so many bugs that it degrades the functionality of the software. Leave it to M$ to make a word processing program that doesn't work right.
I know, this is a bit of a rant, but another thing I hate about M$ word is how bloated it is. Nobody needs all those features to write, and I mean nobody. If you do, then use a desktop publishing app (funny that the DTP apps I can think of all have less features than M$ word, yet they work better than word for layout and publishing). I probably use 20% of the features in Word, yet I have to pay for all of them. Wouldn't it be better if M$ focused on making word better instead of bigger? In making it more stable, in squashing bugs, in creating the perfect word processing app (and anything near "perfect" would be minimalist, see Apple's iApplications for proof of this). But no, with every revision Word gets more crapcode thrown at it, it gets more bloated and as a result it's harder than ever to get anything done, because I have to wade through all the useless features to get to the ones I need.
Sorry for the rant, but I had to vent.
Anyways, does anyone know about these bugs? Is there anywhere at the M$ website that I can report the bugs? Will M$ be releasing a service pack for Office v.X, or is it going to stagnate like the rest of M$'s Mac products (how often does IE get updated, like, once every two years or so??). Thanks for listening.
From day one, this garbage has been buggy as hell. What happens is, the toolbar icons randomly grey-out and I cannot use them. Things that should be available, like dictionary, spelling, or table, are greyed-out even with a document window open.
I can fix it by doing several things:
1. Quit and relaunch Word.
2. Open the customize menu, then close it. Sometimes I get the toolbars to work.
3. Create a custom toolbar, put all the icons I want to use in it, and then use it. Icons don't malfunction in a custom toolbar for some odd reason.
Funny thing about a custom toolbar, is that the formatting pallet doesn't genie into it, it simply appears and disappears. Not a big deal, but odd behavior.
I really, really hate M$ products, and I swear they must intentionally cripple their software for the Mac. It just seems that in Office 2001, and now Office v.X, there are so many bugs that it degrades the functionality of the software. Leave it to M$ to make a word processing program that doesn't work right.
I know, this is a bit of a rant, but another thing I hate about M$ word is how bloated it is. Nobody needs all those features to write, and I mean nobody. If you do, then use a desktop publishing app (funny that the DTP apps I can think of all have less features than M$ word, yet they work better than word for layout and publishing). I probably use 20% of the features in Word, yet I have to pay for all of them. Wouldn't it be better if M$ focused on making word better instead of bigger? In making it more stable, in squashing bugs, in creating the perfect word processing app (and anything near "perfect" would be minimalist, see Apple's iApplications for proof of this). But no, with every revision Word gets more crapcode thrown at it, it gets more bloated and as a result it's harder than ever to get anything done, because I have to wade through all the useless features to get to the ones I need.
Sorry for the rant, but I had to vent.
Anyways, does anyone know about these bugs? Is there anywhere at the M$ website that I can report the bugs? Will M$ be releasing a service pack for Office v.X, or is it going to stagnate like the rest of M$'s Mac products (how often does IE get updated, like, once every two years or so??). Thanks for listening.
