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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3577361" data-attributes="member: 22424">Well, sorry to say that's me formally out.I had spent the last few days assembling ideas, notes, plots and settings with a view to doing WoAdWriMo, and todays sat down to start the actual writing. Sadly, it has proven an absolute disaster.I recently purchased a new laptop, and found that Windows Vista was incompatible with my version of Office. So, I upgraded to the latest version. I took one look at the new interface and immediately searched for the &quot;Classic View&quot;, only to find there wasn't one. &quot;Okay,&quot; I thought, &quot;I'll manage.&quot;Today was the first time I used the tool in anger, and have just found that I can't do anything with it. None of the commands are where they should be, nothing works quite right, and everything just takes far too long. It's incredibly frustrating - I was really good with the old Word, having spent a lot of time and effort learning to use it. Microsoft have taken all that hard-won experience and flushed it.(And another impressive achievement by Microsoft - prior to today I wasn't a Microsoft hater. It takes a really special type of interface to change that so quickly.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3577361, member: 22424"] Well, sorry to say that's me formally out. I had spent the last few days assembling ideas, notes, plots and settings with a view to doing WoAdWriMo, and todays sat down to start the actual writing. Sadly, it has proven an absolute disaster. I recently purchased a new laptop, and found that Windows Vista was incompatible with my version of Office. So, I upgraded to the latest version. I took one look at the new interface and immediately searched for the "Classic View", only to find there wasn't one. "Okay," I thought, "I'll manage." Today was the first time I used the tool in anger, and have just found that I can't do [i]anything[/i] with it. None of the commands are where they should be, nothing works quite right, and everything just takes far too long. It's incredibly frustrating - I was really good with the old Word, having spent a lot of time and effort learning to use it. Microsoft have taken all that hard-won experience and flushed it. (And another impressive achievement by Microsoft - prior to today I wasn't a Microsoft hater. It takes a really special type of interface to change that so quickly.) [/QUOTE]

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