If it ain’t broke
then why fix and break it!
In April 2014, so my ever efficient, ever useful Windows XP computer occasionally tells me, the support for XP ended on that date. Prior to that, users of XP, an operating system that was used in supermarkets and offices for countless years from its release date in the UK of 2002, helped by Madonna’s rather irritating song ‘Ray of light’ (ray of sh*te, more like) were advised to upgrade to what was then the current version of Windows, W8.
As you will/would be aware from reading the many articles in this news magazine, articles that, it goes without saying, contain points and exposés that are ‘news’ to you, mainly as a result of the UK media and others either covering it up or not having enough brain cells to realise what the TRUTH, through common sense, logic, and the downright obvious, has made public.
The TRUTH was first uploaded to the internet in 2000, the turn of the 21st century, six years after it was published in magazine form in 1994. That means I’ve used a computer since 2000 and from windows 98 to W10, the current version.
The operating systems I’ve used are: W98, XP, W7, W8 and W10, while the Microsoft office versions I’ve used are 2000, 2007 Enterprise, 2010 and 2016. Of those, the first two are installed on my PC while the recent two came as trial versions with two of my PC’s.
Over the years, those mindless bimbos at Microsoft have made changes. I’m guessing that, as it’s so God damn obvious, they either consulted no one about the changes, changes for the worst, I might add, or consulted total idiots. There being no other logical explanation for what occurred.
Among Windows XP’s many plus points is its totally perfect search programme, one that let’s you type in a word from a document and search for it, in order to find the file you want to use 20-year-old data from, while selecting the storage device – a flash drive – it was transferred onto.
Unfortunately, you can only search documents and folders inside an open folder on W10. Okay, if you know which folder but no good if you don’t. To find 20-year-old data for inclusion in the articles herein, I used XP.
In comparing W8 with W10. Gone is the full and controllable ‘jump list’. In it’s place is a shorter version, one with a limit of 11 file names compared to the W8 one that lets ‘you’ set the limit:
More recently, and with a Windows 10 up-date, those total idiots at Microsoft changed world renowned ‘Sticky notes’, which save automatically to ‘useless, no good at all notes’.
Whereas before, you simply clicked the ‘Sticky note’ icon on the taskbar and they all sprang up, you have to select them individually and then find yourself having to re-size them. Not only that, but minimizing them, one at a time, takes longer.
Among the many things I used one for was a progressive shopping list. When I ran out of or was about to run out of something, I simply added it to the list.
Thanks to those idiots at Microsoft, I am unable to do that with the consummate ease of the original version, resulting in my not having a list and forgetting the odd item or two, something that, having to queue up to get what I need for the purpose of maintaining social distancing means I have to do it all again: Queue up for a 2nd time to get what I forgot.
The reason, and, again, it’s one of many, I also have Office 2000 installed, is this: by holding down the Alt key when I drag an image etc to resize it, the image moves slowly and smoothly; try that with Enterprise 2007 and more recent versions of Ms Office, and it’s jarry (jerky) and moves in increments. The same is true of Tables, being that which I used to create the pages that you now see and read.
By far, 2000’s mobile pasteboard is better, while it takes up less room. 2007 onward, though, lets me delete used copied items and keep those I’m likely to use or using a lot.
File, and all its additions, properties, etc, are not just better and perfect on 2007, but are easy to find, while I can and do have 30 documents, most of which are pinned, on the ‘Recent Documents’ list.
Best of all, though, is ‘AutoCorrect’, especially for misspelt words (Word's spell checker fails to recognise the correct spelling of 'misspelt') on 2007, only there’s more.
I use AutoCorrect for so many things. Typos, abbreviations of words and phrases, etc. Moreover, I just used it 3 times to correct and store corrections for future typos.
When the typo is flagged (a red squiggle beneath it), I simply right click the word and left click the correct spelling on the list if it’s there. I then copy the corrected word (Ctrl+C) and change it back to the typo (Ctrl+Z). When I right click the typo again, I left click ‘AutoCorrect options…’ at the bottom of the menu and the ‘Replace text as you type’ dialogue box comes up with the ‘insert beam’ (I beam for short) flashing away. I then simply use the shortcut for paste (Ctrl+V) and click OK and the misspelt word, provided it’s typed followed by a space in the future, will be AutoCorrected. If the word is not on the list, you have one of two options. i) left click ‘AutoCorrect options…’ and type in the correct spelling. ii) If the typo is not recognised, you will, as with all other versions of Ms Office, have to copy the typo and navigate to ‘AutoCorrect’, which for 2007 is found under ‘Proofing’, and paste the typo in to the ‘Replace’ box and type the correct spelling into the ‘With’ box, again, clicking OK to finish.
Caution. Avoid adding a word to AutoCorrect when the word is one letter off another word and where the letters are next to one another on the keyboard: ‘this’ and ‘thus’, the ‘I’ being next to ‘U’.
The most common mistypes are: ‘A’, ‘S’, and ‘D’, resulting from fingernails, long ones, catching the key next to the one you meant to type, along with catching two keys at the same time.
Footnote, it’s been several years since the mindless bimbos at Microsoft produced both Windows 10 and Ms Office 2016. The TRUTH will be contacting Microsoft by e-mail about this and another exposé they feature in. What the TRUTH won’t be doing; however, is holding its breath to see if they take any notice whatsoever when they produce the next generation of Windows and MS Office.
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