For this week:

[silverflight8]

Currently quite frustrated with myself, because I have got ideas and ideas for stories (I feel like the quintessential kid in the candy store; also, the idea of having bilingual stories is really, really appealing) but I'm not writing. Which is no-one's fault but mine, but aggravating.

It's snowing gorgeously outside. I mean the lightest snow, that covers up everything and makes the world sparkle under the streetlamps. The kind of snow where you can see every individual snowflake.

(I always get poetic about weather. I do not know why.)

I've discovered, by accident and then by Google searching, about the wonderful, wonderful shortcuts for Microsoft 2007's equation editor. It's amazing how much faster I can input equations now that I don't have to hunt and click around for formatting options and operators and Greek letters; typing is so much quicker. Microsoft, your documentation for this is terrible. The help files were no use at all.

Lastly: I will do my utmost to avoid a job that requires customer service.

Comments

[mercredigirl]

Ooh-er. The equation editor is a marked improvement on Word 2003, but otherwise still about as useful as a teacup in a desert. I loathed fiddling with it when handing in Statistics assignments -- so much easier to do it in plaintext imho.

MICROSOFT: NOT USER-FRIENDLY AT ALL :(

[silverflight8]

I didn't use it much in 2003, but I think I've got used to the 2007. I loathe equations typed out like 2^3, so I put up with the equation editor. It is so much better with the shortcuts, though. Typing \pi is quicker than searching for the symbol.

Yeah, the helpfiles are spectacularly unhelpful.