Have you ever noticed that Microsoft — for some unknown reason — has set the default left/right margins in Word to 1.25 inches. Seriously? 1.25 inches? What a waste… Of both time spent changing it and paper when people don’t bother.
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Have you ever received a .docx file and been unable to open it with Word 2004? My wife is still running Office 2004 on her MacBook, and she periodically gets files from people running Office 2008 or newer, which is when they transitioned to the Open XML file format.
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the toolbars (standard, formatting, reviewing, etc.) were missing from the top of the window in Microsoft Word 2008 for the Mac. I was able to toggle them back on by going to the Toolbars list within the View menu, but that quickly got old. Frustrated, I decided to find a solution.
My son has an Asus Eee PC, and he uses it frequently for school projects. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective) he doesn’t have Microsoft Office. Instead, his netbook came with StarOffice (essentially OpenOffice with a fancier name) pre-installed, so he’s using that.