Stop making MS Word so complicated

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Gordo365

Your products are so complicated and frustrating - they reduce my job
satisfaction. There are so many function/options in MS Word XP 2003 - I have
to take a training class to use word even though I have used the product
every day for 10 years.

I don't need 5 different views. I just want to compose a document. I can't
figure out how to view/print without all the edit boxes. Every document I
open has different set up buttons displayed. Baffling.

Im actively seraching for a simple document editor to replace this.
 
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Charles Kenyon

I suspect that if people stopped asking for changes, Microsoft would not be
addings so much. There are things you can do to tame Word but it never was
simple and never will be simple; it is a complex program. I looks like you
are letting it run dynamic menus on you.

BTW, this forum is for user support - by other users. Microsoft does not
monitor your messages. However, if you would like help making it work better
for you, ask a specific question and someone will lend a hand.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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Daiya Mitchell

Im actively seraching for a simple document editor to replace this.
Click to expand...
I think WordPad comes free with windows? Or use google to search for other
programs.
 
B

Barb R.

Charles,

FYI, on the Microsoft community site, one of the options for messages is
"Suggestion for Microsoft".

Have a great day!

Barb Reinhardt
 
A

Aelfgifu

You could try StarOffice or the open source free equivalent, OpenOfficeOrg,
but it tries to keep up with Word so it's fairly complicated as well. On the
bright side, it stores text as XML so if all goes horribly wrong, at least
you can still get at your words. http://www.openoffice.org
 
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