Re: Auto Generated OLE_Links Bookmarks
- From: jrwaiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 18:43:39 -0700
Thank you, Clive, for your clarification.
I apologize to all of you for my sharp remarks.
My frustrations got the better of me.
John
John,.
I suspected, when I saw your words in your original display of brittleness,
that you thought the people here are Microsoft employees. Now I *know* -- I
see you have referred to "for all your customers". We don't have customers;
we're users of Microsoft products who spend some of our leisure time to help
other users, either for therapy or to "repay" the kindness others have
shown. Although some venting is understandable, your remarks are quite
unpleasant. "Macropod" (not "Macpod" -- he is a highly advanced expert on
the PC and doesn't use a Mac) suggested that some other feature, external to
Word, could be involved and all you did in responding was to take him to
task for using the term "addons". Here and in his other responses he was, in
fact, just trying to help, albeit as someone who knows very little of the
Mac interface.
In my experience, factors external to Word *do* influence the extent to
which Word sprays OLE link bookmarks around. I use Word intensively and have
a similar requirement to yours -- and therefore loathed them before I solved
the problem. They most definitely do not slow down my version of Word (2004)
or cause any instability. Macropod was starting to ask questions to explore
that, but you well and truly kicked him in the teeth, didn't you?
In answer to your question "If I wanted to complain, to whom should I?" [ah,
love that "whom" -- seriously; at least you're a *literate* curmudgeon], we
have been told that feedback from the Help menu is actually assessed and
forwarded by a specialist in the MacBU. But you might need, I suspect, to
reduce your invective before MacBU would take much notice. And since your
problem is probably solvable by examining the configuration of Word and
other software on your particular Mac, which seems abnormal -- if only you
hadn't thoroughly cheesed off the people who might have felt like helping
you -- it isn't actually much of a problem.
Clive Huggan
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On 9/9/08 12:10 AM, in article 59b58bdd.10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"jrwaiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
Macpod,
I don't use addons� The autogeneration of OLE_Links is a Word feature, not an
addon. That is what I'm looking to disable. If my phantom addons were doing
it, then I would disable them. But you can't disable something you haven't
enabled.
Hi,
As I've said, there's a number of possible causes - you haven't responded
with any information that indicates which of them applies
to your situation or whether you've tried disabling any of the add-ins you
might have running. I can't solve the problem for you -
you need to do more than just complain about it.
MacPod, Are you complaining because Word doesn't work perfectly for me? I wish
you guys would take me more seriously.
If I wanted to complain, to whom should I? Could you give Balmer's email?
Thanks. My "complaint" was an attempt to make Word more stable and user
friendly for all your customers. I apologize for offending you.
John
--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
wrote in message news:59b58bdd.6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Macropod,
If I was not having this pesty problem, I would not be wasting my time with
such posts.
Perhaps you should contact some Mac people there in Microsoft, or even get a
Mac and run both Windows and OSX and you can check
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