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May.04, 2006, filed under Miscellany
A long time ago there was a programme called Microsoft Office Word, and lo, whilst its name was spat upon by the legions of warriors in the rebel alliance of Apple Mac and Linux, the workers of the Empire did suffer under its yoke and eventually learn how first to use and then to abuse it. After many years of endeavour the workers of the Empire learned how to make Word do what they wanted, and for some time things were peaceful.
And then Microsoft revealed once more the teeth of its predatory nature, and the abusive side of its rule, and did announce an Evolution. Lo, did Bill Gates and all his little devils bring out Microsoft Office 2003.
And the people wept.
I had, for the record, become relatively proficient with the old Office 97 suite. I can’t programme in Visual Basic (although I suspect I’m going to have to learn), but I can hash a macro together given an afternoon with no distractions.
I used to be able to do this thing where you make a document that prompts the user to enter information. So you’d have a letter, say, and open it, and a series of dialogue boxes would appear asking for the recipient’s name, address and stuff like that. It wasn’t that hard.
Apparently it’s not possible to do this any more. There are only three field types allowed in forms that are not to be part of a mail merge. Those three do not include the “ASK” field, which is the one I need if I don’t want to have to type the same address 4 times, given that there is no option for adding a bookmark reference to a Fill-in field.
It has taken me 2 hours to work out why I couldn’t make this work properly.
And lo there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth and the workers did curse and spit upon the shadow of Bill Gates and all his little devils.
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
