Microsoft Word for PC and Mac

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• By AAEstevanico

  5

  Windows

  I'm using Word for Windows. I finally bit the bullet and subscribed, because that's the only way to get it now. It's like an old friend. I'm fluent after YEARS of use. HOWEVER, Microsoft tries to WEDGE its cloud service into my work-flow and it's confusing and annoying. When I want to choose "Autosave" to protect myself from losing in-process documents, it puts pop-ups telling me I need "Microsoft 360" or whatever, and there are other related foils that confuse me and make me think I can't have a fully functioning Word version, like before, unless I have a Microsoft (MS) account and/or do what Microsoft wants with respect to its cloud service. I would appreciate if MS would lay-off and just provide the software, like before. BEFORE, I could buy it once and get all subsequent updates. Now, in the interest of recurring revenue, I have to "subscribe." "Subscribing" to MS Word was a hurdle I had to get over. I tried everything, but the others aren't nearly as familiar and comfortable to me...

  
  
• By Kevin Shields 72

  4

  Since the new office preimered

  Many months ago you gave users a chance to try a new version of Outlook 365. I noted a few issues and oen did not get fixed. There is a clitch when I use this on Windows. When I being a sentence, the capital letter at the start of the sentence gets jumped ahead of the curser, with auot correct changing the secon letter of the sentence from lower case to capitol and them fixing the spelling of the first word. This means, every time I begin a paragrpah or senetnce, I have to delete the first letter, which is not at the end of a sentence and go back to the begining of teh sentence and fix the first word. Please fix this crummy coding. Also, I am using Zoom, as are many people these days. It asked me if I want to merge with Outlook 365. I clicked yes. It generated an outlook app on my tool bar. Ithis is not a Zoom app, it is your outlook app. Now I get a bell ring and pop-up on my screen every time I have something on my calendar. I have something on my sclendar every 15 to 30 minutes. This is driving me nuts. There is a not setting to get ride of it, control the bell ring or stop the pop-up. Please go through your systems and fix things before taing them live. You guys =used to be the best at this stuff, now you have wacky flaws without solutions.

  
  
• By Professor at UCSF

  1

  Cant believe the inadequacy of ms word, from long time scientist user.

  It is amazing that after 35 years MS word is so inadequate. Im on a new Windows in 2020. - If I open a document choice of font is always like a random generator, never the one I try to make the default. All the autoformating tools are awful intrusion- and I keep having to turn them off! But they dont stay off if you get a doc from someplace else. If you move a piece of text in a document that is in Arial font, and put it in somehwere else in the document its font gets changed -again for some randomly chosen other font. Inserting figures is a nightmare! with voodoo links to nearby text, then figures jump around as one edits the text, sometime disappear. putting them in tables sometimes works better, but still the jumping tables make it extremely inefficient. After all these years,- we used to have text edit programs 40 years ago, -Microsoft has sat back and made useless add ons that make it very hard to even write a standard document for submission to a journal, - even an on line repository efficiently. Microsoft has raked in the money like ransom to long time needy users, and yet is so lazy, and for so much money. PLease someone do better. MS word is aweful -

  
  
• By JimmyJohnnyJames77

  5

  Love Microsoft But Microsoft is Necessary

  I bought a brand new 2021 Windows Desktop and it's beautiful. It is exactly what I wanted from a new work computer, however as good as Microsoft is with their hardware and MUCH of their software, the word processing of it all leaves much to be desired. I cannot use pages or numbers or any of these knock off versions of established Microsoft products... give me Word, give me Excel, give me Powerpoint... I've used Word for legit 30 years... for middle school, high school, college, and work... I've written published works in Word... why after 3 decades should I be made to learn a new word processor? Learning the software impedes on time that I need to get my work done, so it's counter intuitive to even offer those knock off products. Bummed Microsoft doesnt come with Microsoft Suite standard although I understand why it doesnt and am happy to pay the yearly fee to be comfortable using my own computer.

  
  
• By Ruby O'Dent

  2

  Only 2 stars because....

  Your new version for Windows makes everything so small. It's as if you've designed the icons and their related text for 10-year-olds with perfect eyesight. The triangles (for adjusting margins and setting indents) the ruler are miniscule and take quite a bit of coordination to get the mouse pointer on and then to move. The icons on the toolbars for changing font styles (bold, italics, und) are the same, and unless you get the cursor square on them, they won't work. The function list under "Insert" has been completely rearranged since I last had to buy a new MS Word for Windows. Page Break, something I use a lot as a copy editor, is no longer front and center. It'd be nice if the Print window would offer the option for two-sided printing, which would save on paper. But mostly I just want the things you have to click on and drag to be larger so it's not such an effort to get the cursor on them. Get some 50-year-olds who are now wearing bifocals to help you with this the next time the young, cocky, hotshot software designers want to redesign MS Word. Especially those unnecessarily miniscule paragraph-indent triangles.