SIX ERRORS OF SEPARATION

Ugh!

It’s almost 2011…

So will someone please tell me why…

After 27 years…

Microsoft WORD is still a dinosaur?

I was at my daughter’s last night…

I had picked  my grandson up from school…

Then went to her house and made dinner.

(Mexican chicken lime soup w/fried tortillas & taquitos)

My daughter is an environmental scientist…

(yes, mom’s allowed to brag)

She had been at an out-of-town meeting with an angry client…

Regarding a project her company was working on.

The biggest complaint from the client?

Formatting errors on the report due to…

Wait…

Here it comes

You ain’t gonna believe it…

WORD

“Really?” I asked her. “Formatting errors?”

“Yeah. When we cut and pasted info from a previous report–”

“Wait,” I said, “let me guess. The formatting, fonts and paragraph settings

kept defaulting to the document you cut from.”

“It was mess, she said. “Problem was, we had only a few hours to

generate this report, and no one could proof read it.”

Though I’m not an environmental scientist by any stretch of the imagination…

(however I do try to be “green” as often as possible)

Seems WORD and proof-reading

Have brought my writing world…

And my daughter’s science world…

That much closer.

Truth?

The whole world needs a proof-reader…

And I could do without WORD’s idiosyncrasies.

How about you?

Have WORD, have problems?

Always, Em-Musing