Ode to Word

re: Ode to Word

Edward — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:04:00 GMT

I like it.

re: Ode to Word

Mackie — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:58:00 GMT

Brilliant. :)

re: Ode to Word

Word Clippy — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:40:00 GMT

"Could you use a dumber WORD
Than WORD??????"
My Documents, Yea, thier mine!
Opps, who is this in info, William Smith?
not mine, sob... at all!

re: Ode to Word

Edward — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 01:13:00 GMT

I was trying to find this page again on google, but it does not seem to have been indexed yet.
Anyway it did bring up another similar poem.

Ode to Word

Doing things in Word is easy they say
But after working with it, I don't see it that way.
Someone has decided just how things should look
After searching and searching, there's no clue in the book.

I finally, after hours, get things just where I want
And when I look back, where it was, it is not.
I look around, and as I'm beginning to rage,
I find the copy -- Word made a new page.

I didn't ask it to alter my copy or think
But the wizard did this without even a wink.
So I look in the book and follow directions
To keep Word from making unwanted corrections.

But nothing does work as the book says it will.
The frames and their copy won't seem to stay still.
They jump around for no rhyme and no reason;
Try as I might there is no way to freeze'em.

But I, who can make PageMaker and Quark jump through hoops
Find Word undecipherable and made up of loops
That allow copy in frames to jump all over the place
And move in a flash into undesigned space.

So it is thus that much of my time is wasted
On documents where parts don't stay pasted
In this program I find to be so absurd;
Known to all as Microsoft Word.

Jacque, Foreman Graphics - c1999

re: Ode to Word

mschaef — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:59:00 GMT

Sorry for the off-topic post, but is there a blog like yours from someone on the Excel team? More generally, is there a good list of the other Office blogs?

re: Ode to Word

Rick Schaut — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:04:00 GMT

I know of no Excel bloggers, Mac or otherwise.

re: Ode to Word

Rich — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 04:34:00 GMT

Not necessarily from MS, but this is perhaps the best Excel blog (also, now featuring some of Excel's best gurus as guests):

http://www.dicks-blog.com/