Ten things I wish everyone knew about Word

re: Ten things I wish everyone knew about Word

Peter Sefton — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:59:07 GMT

Regarding templates: I wish everyone knew how to save templates to the 'proper' place under windows.

Back in the old days there was a templates folder in which one was supposed to save templates, but recent versions of Windows have shipped with the file explorer set to hide that folder! This makes it almost impossible to correctly install a template. This must be why Joe recommends putting in on the desktop (where you can't use File / New to select it - not that File / New exists any more :-).

I have been involved in developing templates and we had to resort to shipping a self-installing template with a macro that attempts to save itself. See http://ice.usq.edu.au/instructions/downloads.htm

re: Ten things I wish everyone knew about Word

John — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:21:30 GMT

One thing I wish would CHANGE in Word, and all products, is the ability to paste to the DESTINATION format. Yeah, you get that little icon and you can change it, but it is inconvenient. Maybe in 1 out of a 30,000 pastes do I want the source formatting.

re: Ten things I wish everyone knew about Word

Jason — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:26:46 GMT

It's not one of your 10 things, but I'm hoping you can help me locate the readability report in Word 2007. I've found it the best way I could, but it feels like it's just buried and should be easier to access individually as needed. Any help you can provide would be great.

re: Ten things I wish everyone knew about Word

Will — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:46:02 GMT

John, quit whining and download the beta 2. You can see you have that option.

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