Re: MS Word - what a mickey mouse pile of sh!t.

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From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:56:28 -0600

I don't think an SP is involved because when I bought my computer Office XP
was brand-new--so new that Dell was still offering a choice of Office 2000
or XP (and I selected 2000 but got XP anyway, which I was annoyed about
initially but later grateful for). 

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote in message
news:VA.0000a735.003eba59@speedy...
> Hi Suzanne,
>
> > I'm curious as to why I didn't experience it, then. I bought a new
computer
> > with Office XP installed.
> >
> Could be that an later SP is part of that installation? I wouldn't be
> surprised if MS changed that default setting in an SP, somewhere down the
> line... I don't KNOW this is the case, but they have to have become as
tired
> of the support questions as we did.
>
> Cindy Meister
> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
> http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
> http://www.word.mvps.org
>
> This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
> reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
>

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