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Gail Shaw wrote:
> I don't think I've ever had Word crash on me.
You're lucky. In year 1 at uni, Word "ate" my assignment 3 hours before
the handin deadline. (As in, the file would open, but it became
impossible to save any modifications. Word *insisted* the disk was full,
when in fact it wasn't.) From that point on, I wrote every single
assignment in HTML instead. That's how ****ed off I was about it!
Even today, Word still sometimes does strange things to me - usually to
do with formatting not working right, or spurios text duplication. I
don't use Word very much, so I never see it actually *crash*. The report
writers do though. Not quite as much as in Word 97, but it still happens
now and then.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Don't think I've ever seen Excel crash - or any other element of Office,
> just Word.
If you do sufficiently funky stuff with it, it can get ugly. (By
sufficiently funky, I mean things like adjusting the formulas and
display options based on the values stored in an external SQL database,
say.)
> (BTW, did you ever see the flight simulator?)
I think I might have, once.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> bluescreen and shutdown more than once (it's in dire need of a reinstall).
I had one coworker with an install so screwed up he'd get Yellow Screen
Of Death (with light-grey text) whenever he tried to log out. But then,
he ran all kinds of pirated crap and weird amateur device drivers on it,
so I'm not surprised he had to reinstall every couple years.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:487f6620@news.povray.org...
>>> Presumably Word crashes like hell for everybody else too,
>>
>> No.
>
> Are you seriously suggesting that there are people for whom Word doesn't
> crash?
yes, it doesn't crash for me, in fact I haven't had it crash for me in
*years*.
HTH
Cheers Dre
<snip>
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> If you write a brand new document, and happen to insert a numbered list
> into it somewhere, it usually works fine. As soon as you try to do
> anything more complex, bizare behaviour results.
Either turn off the array of auto-numbering options within Word, or learn
how they work. Once you know how they work it's easy to understand what
Word is doing, and more importantly what you need to do to get things to
look the way you want (when that's different from what the auto options
think you want!).
At least in recent versions of Word, whenever it changes something for you,
you *always* get that little icon that gives you the chance to "don't ever
do what you just did again" or "ok undo what you just did, but do it again
later if you want". Very handy.
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And lo on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:23:34 +0100, Gilles Tran
<gil### [at] agroparistechfr> did spake, saying:
> At worse, they're a terse message in the KB saying "we know there's a
> problem
> there but don't have a solution yet"
Or much more helpfully 'We know there's a problem and we've fixed it in
the new version; go and buy that'
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Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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And lo on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:30:14 +0100, scott <sco### [at] scottcom> did
spake, saying:
>> Yeah, I'm reading about it now. (Hmm, I guess I'm not the only person
>> who still thinks 512 MB RAM is a lot. ;-)
>
> For a games console it's probably enough. What do you hold in RAM
> during a game? All the 3D meshes and textures are on the GPU video
> memory only*. Probably only the code, collision meshes, map data? And
> the PS3 OS is vastly simpler than Windows, so I doubt that uses up much
> RAM.
Yeah all you've got is an OS that can have multiple users; reads/writes to
a hard drive; works with multiple USB devices; shows pictures, plays
music, videos, and games; communicates via Bluetooth and a wired/wireless
TCP/IP connection; and comes with an internet browser.
Completely different to what Windows does :-P
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Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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> Yeah all you've got is an OS that can have multiple users; reads/writes to
> a hard drive; works with multiple USB devices; shows pictures, plays
> music, videos, and games; communicates via Bluetooth and a wired/wireless
> TCP/IP connection; and comes with an internet browser.
>
> Completely different to what Windows does :-P
Actually that sounds like my phone, and that has something like 35MB RAM ;-)
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And lo on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:24:30 +0100, scott <sco### [at] scottcom> did
spake, saying:
>> Yeah all you've got is an OS that can have multiple users; reads/writes
>> to a hard drive; works with multiple USB devices; shows pictures, plays
>> music, videos, and games; communicates via Bluetooth and a
>> wired/wireless TCP/IP connection; and comes with an internet browser.
>>
>> Completely different to what Windows does :-P
>
> Actually that sounds like my phone, and that has something like 35MB RAM
> ;-)
Heh and the ones running Windows Mobile will even run cut down versions of
Word and Excel while allowing you to make phone calls, check your diary,
browse the 'net and pick up your email... Perhaps we should all be running
that version on our desktops instead ;-)
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Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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>> Actually that sounds like my phone, and that has something like 35MB
>> RAM ;-)
>
> Heh and the ones running Windows Mobile will even run cut down versions
> of Word and Excel while allowing you to make phone calls, check your
> diary, browse the 'net and pick up your email... Perhaps we should all
> be running that version on our desktops instead ;-)
...and THIS is why I'm reluctant to buy a new phone. Who would want to
pay money for something that runs an M$ OS? :-S
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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