Re: Scanning into word
- From: John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:57:52 +1000
Well, since everyone is weighing in on this thread, I guess I might as well
jump in :-)
You are correct: This used to work and you want it back! :-)
Clive is correct: rolling back is a good answer.
Bob is correct: this is not Microsoft's job.
And Jim is quite correct: TWAIN support was indeed discontinued in Office
2008.
Microsoft's research proved that a very small percentage of their users used
the feature, and it required a lot of development time to create and
maintain the code to do it. There had to be some cuts to Office 2008 to
meet the on-sale date, and this was one of them.
HP sold you a device to work on OS 10.4. I have one too. Mine never
promised to work with anything higher than OS 9...
Apple uses a silly naming convention for its operating systems: the idea is
that OS "10.5" represents a small change from OS "10.4". That's not true.
This is OS X (as in ecks...) and Version 5 is a large change from version 4.
So: You have changed to a "different operating system". You have not done
a "small upgrade", you have "replaced your operating system with a different
one." As far as the applications are concerned, they have never seen this
one before. Bits of it are similar. Bits of it are nothing like what they
had before.
The only one who can settle this is YOU. You must decide whether the new
abilities you purchased with OS X.5 are sufficiently valuable TO YOU to
justify the cost, in terms of money spent and the need to replace some of
your software.
Currently, I have decided that a scheduled backup that is not as good as the
one I am already using does not justify the cost of upgrading some of my
hardware and most of my software. So I am using OS X version 4. Apple's
problem now is to persuade me to buy a new OS. To do that, they will
probably have to persuade me to buy a new printer, new software, and a new
computer.
Microsoft will be watching with interest to see how they do that. Because
Microsoft would very much like some ideas on how to persuade me to purchase
Vista. Which would mean a new PC, new software, and a new printer... :-)
Both of them need to offer something sufficiently valuable TO ME to justify
a few grand's worth of total expenditure. When I balance that up against
the benefits I will achieve by spending the money on a holiday for the
significant other, somehow the computer companies are currently not
achieving the required performance level. Either of them :-)
You, of course, must do your own calculation of relative benefits. But I
strongly suggest to you that your life will improve if you consider spending
the money on the significant other instead :-)
Cheers
On 5/05/08 3:39 PM, in article ee893d1.19@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"deechip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <deechip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What about me? I bought an HP all-in-one printer, copier, scanner last summer.
At the time I had Mac OS 10.4. The scanner function of the HP worked
perfectly. Then I upgraded to Mac OS 10.5. The scanner would not work. HP
advised to use the insert picture from scanner feature in Word as a
work-around. That worked. Then I upgraded to Office for Mac 2008. So
suggesting I use the software that came with my scanner is not the answer.
This has been such a mess. I love my Mac but it's like being the left-handed
person in a right-handed world. Any suggestions? Please!!!!
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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxx
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