A brief announcement

[gridlore]

I freaking hate Word. It sucks. Just the simple act of typing a cover letter triggered more stress than I got from being fired in the first place. No, seriously. I was screaming at the screen.

I don't care how thinks my letter should look, stop changing things to fit what some pencil neck at MickeySquash thinks my letter should look like. I do not want my email address hot linked. When I remove something, like that annoying hyperlink, it is not an invitation to reinsert it every time I type on that line.

Thank Ghu for OpenOffice.org. Since the export to .doc is now clean, I'm doing all my work in that from now on.

Thanks to iTunes for what could be a good marching song for the open source movement.

Comments

Re: I know exactly what you mean....

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Use Paste Special off the menus rather than Paste. If you're feeling really ambitious you can even replace the Paste button and the Paste keybind with Paste Special. It's what I've done.

Similarly, Doug, most of the stuff you're talking about can be turned off using the Tools menu's AutoCorrect.

Not excusing it, just explaining how to mitigate the worst of it.