Actually, Windows 8 is not too bad, not nearly as bad as I have heard others suggest it is. Having used it for some time now on my HP Pavilion G6 machine, I am finding it very stable indeed. Something which I find refreshingly pleasant for anything Microsoft. I am still amongst those who advocate a total rewrite for the next version of Windows. That said, I've been hoping for that ever since the days of Windows 95, and I've been disappointed on each occasion by just how much Microsoft has papered over the cracks in every subsequent build.
Apple and other developers have actually done that with their operating systems and it is high time Microsoft followed suit. I think I'm going to have to renew my MSDN membership at some point so that I can at least have my say on the forum. Anyway, I will let the group know how things go. As a result of my playing around with Office 2010 I've discovered that if I right-click or use the applications context key with a portion of text selected, I can then apply a style to that text by typing in the name or part of the name of the style. I can also select most of that from a list, which is actually a very nice idea. Having edited a file on the Mac using Nisus Writer Pro, I'm having to clean it up a lot to remove unwanted invisible characters and line feeds, so that I can neatly organise the items using Word. The files don't appear to be in any way wrongly formatted under Nisus, but interestingly enough Pages doesn't show me any format info either. I won't discuss OS X apps here because it's off topic. But I have to admit that selecting styles and processing various elements of documents seems to be far cleaner under Word 2010 and later than I ever remember it being under Office 97, 2003 or 2007. It'll be int eresting to see what happens when I try with Word 2013. Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia: +61 38 8205930 Vic. Australia +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> Skype: <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> ------------------------------ On 30 May 2013, at 20:21, Dane trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't know how you'll go with that, I know a lot of users who use > Thunderbird but not under Windows 8, holding off the install of Windows 8 > until the major upgrade - free of charge to Windows 8 users by the way > <smile> - is released, some radical changes are to be made which affect > accessibility and appearance. ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- [email protected]
