To want to brutally murder the idiot in charge of hiding all the useful MS Office functions?

[emptyshell]

So I have a "chat" tomorrow about a long-term supply booking (part-time which is all I really ever want to look for) and the eternal joy of the observed activity going into a bunch of kids blindly, no idea of numbers/SEN/ability so pitch it at a level and hope... not to mention the kids get increasingly restless and ratty as stranger after stranger is wheeled out to them for their 15 minutes of scrutiny (I'm in the before lunch slot so I'm not holding out much hope).

I'm fucking GOOD with Publisher, brilliant at making resources and things - but we just "upgraded" to Office 2010 and every fucking button I'm looking for is bloody hidden in some kind of Crystal Maze meets Krypton Factor meets The Cube kind of challenge and test of endurance to find the bugger. What should have been a 10 minute job to do is taking bloody hours.

I want to find the fucker who hid all of my buttons and functions and brutally murder him... preferably with a paperclip with annoying wobbly eyes (and yes the creator of that paperclip and the monster who invented PowerPoint and thus sentenced an entire generation of adults to interminable death by PowerPoint talkathons for hours on end can die too). Oh and do you know how nightmarish it is to find FairyTale pictures that haven't been eaten, digested and spat out by the Disney monster?!?!?! That one's another rant though!

I'll go back to finding my "send to back" function now.

[emptyshell]

Didn't get the job I went for anyway (wasn't expecting to) but the observed lesson (and resources I fought with bloody Office to make) went down fantastically!

[Andrewofgg]

It is a bugger when you use it with Word documents. Emptyshell better luck next time and persevere with 2010 - it is worth it.

[Flisspaps]

niceguy2 Glad to be of help.

I'll post it again for anyone who wants it - for anyone who missed it on the first page, this is a small download which basically puts back in the missing toolbar to your Office programs:

Click this link - I'm not affiliated to the site in any way, I will add (because I've posted it a few times) but I do love having the old toolbar back!

[emptyshell]

Wasn't expecting to get it - had a really really vile Head about 4 years ago last time I did any interviews who utterly shredded my teaching style because I hadn't hit her particular foibles.... so I never ever did an application again. This one was really positive that my teaching was fantastic and it was other reasons why I didn't get it - all I'd really wanted to achieve was putting that demon behind me and get my confidence back so I came out of it a winner in the end.

[PlentyOfPubgardens]

I've never had any problems opening, editing or saving word docs in OpenOffice. Occasionally the formatting will go a bit strange when docs are then opened in Word, but I've had that happen lots of times moving docs between different versions of Word too, so I'm inclined to think OO isn't the culprit.

[maighdlin]

openoffice the only way to go.

[DownyEmerald]

Anyone remember Wordperfect? I used to love Wordperfect - it was fantastic at doing tables and things, and not pratting you around and creating new columns half way down, and you never ended up with a blank page at the end that you just can't bloomin delete because there is nothing to delete.

I am dreading having to upgrade.

[Andrewofgg]

I still use WordPerfect for some purposes. The recent versions have a function to turn .pdf files into text files which is so, so useful.