Re: square bullets

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:59:19 -0700, John Larkin
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:45:39 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:30:26 -0700, John Larkin
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:05:58 +0800, Spehro Pefhany
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:29:12 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was typing a data*** in Word, and it decided at some point to
change all my "features" bullets from OK round things to ugly square
things. And it now refuses to change them back. And now this 2-page
document likes to lock up and freeze Word now and then.

To Microsoft, Bill Gates, and the entire Word team: you code crap.

John

Yeah, but it's done with proper software 'methodologies'. Maybe try
saving as RTF and re-opening.

OOPs, very appropriate.

Yeah, maybe I could do that, then cut/paste the graphics. What a pain.

If I turn off the bullets in the features list of the damaged doc (it
lets me do that!) and cut/paste the text list into another document,
the bullet problem still follows the list! How did they manage that?

John


Microsoft knows what you want better than you do ;-)

Exactly. A $150 upgrade of Office every year or two, forever. I'm so
po'd at the bugs, I fork up the cash. And they load a new set of bugs
to make sure the cycle continues.

You can actually pay Microsoft to attend seminars on how to write
robust code.

John

I read somewhere that Windows recovery code (all stuff it does while
it's booting up, and subsequent boot attempts if it fails to start) is
really top-notch, since they have so many disasters to test recovery
from. 2000 really isn't that bad-- good thing they've come up with
stuff that won't run under 2K so they can keep the revenue coming in.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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