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Joseph_Berriman
I bought the black MacBook for law school earlier this year, and went all out on software, upgrades, etc. I, of course, purchased Word 2004 for school. It has been the worst experience of my computer-related life. And, as Murphy's Law would have it, right after I buy my computer, Leopard and Word 2008 both are released... and I, of course, had to rush out and buy both, like the Apple enthusiast I am (But I'm quickly beginning to learn that both Microsoft and Apple both have their fair share of problems and bugs). I have been cursed with three main problems:
First, every time I try to bold one line of a document, Word bolds EVERYTHING! Same thing happens when I try to italicize, change the color, change the font, or do any other similar formatting (even outlining, as I'll talk about later).
Secondly, when I open a new document in Notebook layout, it automatically opens in double-spaced format... and thus the first, and every preceding line, is written not in between the lines of the notebook paper, but right on top of the line of the notebook paper.
Lastly, when I try to format a selected paragraph to outline, it outlines the entire document, not just my selection (similar to my previously mentioned formatting problem). It also includes empty lines as part of the outline... so where there is nothing written, it acts as if there is something written there and formats that, too.
So, after all this happened, I figured that I'm in so much debt from school as it is, that I would just go out and buy Office 2008 and install that to see if it fixes anything... and it didn't. But I have to say it was a HUGE improvement overall. If I could fix these formatting bugs, I would be very pleased with the updates in 2008.
On a side note, I was unable to register Office 2008... the website is not accepting my Product ID. Apparently, I'm not the only one with this issue, according to other posts I've read. So I'll just have to hold off on registering it. I would like to point out that ALL my software is legit and purchased directly through the Apple Store. The only software not registered is Office 2008, and, as mentioned, that's out of my hands for now. I purchased Apple Care, too.
PLEASE HELP ME! I have mid-terms coming up in law school, oral arguments, my memo and tons of others projects that are taking me forever to complete because of these bugs. If I have failed to adequately state my problem, please let me know and I'll do my best to elaborate. Thank you so much for your help, in advance.
Joseph Berriman
University of San Diego, School of Law
(e-mail address removed)
First, every time I try to bold one line of a document, Word bolds EVERYTHING! Same thing happens when I try to italicize, change the color, change the font, or do any other similar formatting (even outlining, as I'll talk about later).
Secondly, when I open a new document in Notebook layout, it automatically opens in double-spaced format... and thus the first, and every preceding line, is written not in between the lines of the notebook paper, but right on top of the line of the notebook paper.
Lastly, when I try to format a selected paragraph to outline, it outlines the entire document, not just my selection (similar to my previously mentioned formatting problem). It also includes empty lines as part of the outline... so where there is nothing written, it acts as if there is something written there and formats that, too.
So, after all this happened, I figured that I'm in so much debt from school as it is, that I would just go out and buy Office 2008 and install that to see if it fixes anything... and it didn't. But I have to say it was a HUGE improvement overall. If I could fix these formatting bugs, I would be very pleased with the updates in 2008.
On a side note, I was unable to register Office 2008... the website is not accepting my Product ID. Apparently, I'm not the only one with this issue, according to other posts I've read. So I'll just have to hold off on registering it. I would like to point out that ALL my software is legit and purchased directly through the Apple Store. The only software not registered is Office 2008, and, as mentioned, that's out of my hands for now. I purchased Apple Care, too.
PLEASE HELP ME! I have mid-terms coming up in law school, oral arguments, my memo and tons of others projects that are taking me forever to complete because of these bugs. If I have failed to adequately state my problem, please let me know and I'll do my best to elaborate. Thank you so much for your help, in advance.
Joseph Berriman
University of San Diego, School of Law
(e-mail address removed)