Word 2003 vs. Word 2000
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:17:36 -0800
Francis,
Reading the below reminded me of how hard I tried for a while, with my new
computer and new Office suite 2003, to master or at least bear with the task
pane revamp of the Word thesaurus function.
I got as far as being able to figure out that the new thing offered a lot of
links and related functions that, for me, had absolutely nothing to do with
the reasons I wanted to thumb through a few lists of associated words until
I hit on the one that would best serve my purpose. At that point, without a
bit of regret, I just reinstalled Word 2000 in my new XP Home PC, and am
once more a happy Word camper. Just describing my own experience. Other
people may feel differently about it. Not trying to argue. Just providing
an update on the ultimate resolution my hassle with the new task pane
thesaurus.
Daniel
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From: "Francis Daniels" <fdaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: need some help!!
Hi David,
You are right about the versions of Word acting the way they do. Word 97
did not have MSAA in it and it showed. I found that one out after talking
to Peter Wong, who might still be with Microsoft in their MSAA division. I
liked Word 2000 a lot - still do. But we're using Word 2003 at work and,
although there are some nice things about it, it still is odd at times.
JAWS 6 also behaves in an odd fashion at times as well.
For example, if the I-beam (mouse pointer in text) in in a word, JAWS 6
cannot read the whole word during either SayAll or SayLine. I have to
switch to JAWS cursor, move the I-beam, then switch to PC cursor and
continue reading.
Then, there's the "wonderful" task pane issue we brought up a while back.
And while Spell Check works well, the Thesaurus opens in a task pane.
Well, no one suggested that Microsoft was original. Heh. But I wish that
JAWS could work in a more consistent manner.
Thanks, David.
Francis
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