Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2008

Aw - Don't be so pessimistic:-) Believe it or not MacBU is keenly aware of
the shortcomings of 2008 but for any number of reasons they were unable -
not unwilling - to provide a better initial offering. They are working quite
diligently to make what improvements they can as quickly as possible. There
is certainly no guarantee that *everyone's* concerns will be *completely*
satisfied as promptly as we'd prefer, but you may be pleasantly surprised in
the not too distant future... Keep the proverbial "stiff upper lip" :-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 3/8/08 2:09 PM, in article
63057e9b-aa52-4e49-9644-5f8e2a0e6832@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com, "Ed"
<edvolchok@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

Huh???? Would you prefer 11/3? I'm not seeing your point.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 3/8/08 6:02 PM, in article C3F9661B.BBF5%john@mcghie.name, "John McGhie"
<john@mcghie.name> wrote:

Think seriously of passing your view on to Microsoft (see the Help menu).
In this group we are only users of Microsoft products.

Clive Huggan
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On 6/5/08 1:56 PM, in article
EF470049-D4F4-4BCC-8E46-D1263656F178@microsoft.com, "merffot"

You are quite correct, it didn't.  Because you do not have it yet :-)

It's due any minute, but it has not been released yet.  Microsoft has never
properly resolved the names of the 'patches' it puts out.  No software
company is ever going to call them "Patches" or  "Fixes" because that draws
attention to the fact that they goofed :-)

However, Microsoft calls them a variety of things and it's difficult to know
what you are getting.  The industry recognises three kinds:

"Hot fix"

"Update"

"Service Release"

A hot fix is an emergency repair to get customers out of a problem that is
causing data loss or damage.  That is what we just had, and it was
identified as "12.0.1".  The first two digits indicate it applies to "Office
12" which is Office 2008 to Marketing Department.  The second digit is 0,
which indicates that no major changes were made, and the third digit went
from 0 to 1 to indicate that this was the first.

An "Update" is a more extensive fix.  It will update the middle digit.  And
it will apply to more than one component in the software.  That's the one we
are waiting for.

A "Service Release" collects all of the updates and hot fixes that have
applied since the software was released to market, so you only have to apply
one patch to fix everything.  The coming update will be one of those.

And it will fix the Readability Statistics.

I suppose this is a bad time for me to suggest that the Readability
Statistics have been universally discounted as a useful piece of information
by scholars who know a lot more about English than I do?  (And I write books
for a living...)

It is easily possible to write English that tests very well in Readability
Statistics and yet remains almost unreadable :-)  But I guess that's a
discussion for another forum :-)

Cheers

On 6/05/08 1:56 PM, in article
EF470049-D4F4-4BCC-8E46-D1263656F178@microsoft.com, "merffot"