I’ve been telling myself for a while I needed to switch to LibreOffice Writer. I canceled my Office 365 subscription because I hated Word 2016 just that much. I spent three years as a subscriber and wasted good money on it and never could get used to it enough to actually use it. I usedContinue reading “Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer?”
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I canceled my Office 365 subscription
I finally ditched Office 365. Not for LibreOffice, which I’ll probably end up using in the long run, but for Office 2007. I never could get used to writing in Word 2016 and I absolutely hated Excel 2016 to the point that I only ever used it when it accidentally opened a file. I wasContinue reading “I canceled my Office 365 subscription”
Yesterday with the book went well, so what did I do today?
I spent the day messing with my fonts library, caused Word to screw up with some of my most useful fonts, spent way too much time deleting and installing one particular font that just would not display correctly after I’d installed newer versions, deleted my font cache again, (and again), and finally got things workingContinue reading “Yesterday with the book went well, so what did I do today?”
Progress and a brilliant idea I should have had sooner
I did run out of time yesterday and didn’t make it through all the chapters of my book. Well, sort of. I stopped the editing at chapter 12, but then I sent the file to my tablet and read through the rest of it and realized most of it’s solid. Just a few bits IContinue reading “Progress and a brilliant idea I should have had sooner”
My new favorite tool in Word
I’ve just discovered a new favorite tool in Word. Despite how long I’ve been using the program, I still come across simple features I just haven’t noticed before that turn out to be extremely useful. I had highlighted a word in my book (on my Kindle) that I thought maybe I’d been using too often,Continue reading “My new favorite tool in Word”
Trying to like Word 2016 or Excel 2016
I much prefer Word 2007 to Word 2016, and that preference goes for Excel too. In fact, I will candidly say I hate the newer versions of all the Microsoft Office products. Really hate them. However, I also hate to see myself sticking with something just because I don’t like change. Because of that, I’mContinue reading “Trying to like Word 2016 or Excel 2016”
Microsoft Word and Embedded Fonts; Open Type Is a Problem
My solution to the “Word won’t embed Open Type fonts” issue that meant CreateSpace didn’t like my book. It was a tricky bastard, let me tell ya. ;)