User Profile
aileverte
Brass Contributor
Joined 4 years ago
User Widgets
Recent Discussions
Re: Can I remove Modern Comments and revert back?
chiara369 I have posted a thread on Twitter about this, also including a link to this community thread. If you use Twitter, please retweet it / like it. I am fed up with Microsoft making the tool I have to use every day less and less usable, more and more resource heavy, and only a massive user response will get them to listen. https://twitter.com/aileverte/status/1442136158964748296 I have also posted a reply to Microsoft's tweet: https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1390071306364891138 Thanks for RT!5.2KViews0likes6CommentsRe: Can I remove Modern Comments and revert back?
Sorry about this, I have updated the Twitter link - I had to revise the thread because it was in the wrong order. I edited the comment above. Here is the corrected link again: https://twitter.com/aileverte/status/14421361589647482965.1KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Can I remove Modern Comments and revert back?
I'm a professional editor, as well, and have been struggling with ever-new "improvements" to Word. When copy-editing, for instance, I have to enter "typecodes" to format a given chunk of text (e.g. PI for indented paragraph, using a preloaded publisher's template): these typecodes used to go into the box where you had "Normal" style, and now typing those in, especially with longer typecodes, like CHBM:APN (chapter backmatter appendinx number) it takes for ever, 6x as long as actually typing that string of letters into a document). Just wondering, do you experience other problems like this as well? (I also use Mac -- until recently was also using Word 2011, but even though I had it downloaded via 365, it started asking me to input a key...). Anyway, more frustrations than necessary. This week I'm working on an index, and ended up coughing up $117 for a third-party program because Word was so slow that I realized I would never finish... (Sorry about the rant, but I was actually hoping maybe to start a "club" for editors, copy-editors etc. and as a group pressure Microsoft to rollback some of these changes or maybe release a version of Word that is a working tool rather than an imitation of an iphone app...)5.3KViews2likes1CommentRe: Can I remove Modern Comments and revert back?
Thanks *chiara369* for starting this thread and for your meticulous comment. You have captured all the problems with this particular feature. This update happened very unexpectedly for me: the computer crashed and upon restart, the comments first appeared to be gone altogether, then finally figured out how to get them back. It looks like that, on Mac, it's hard to view them in Print View -- have to toggle between Draft and Print views for the comments to become available. And I agree with everyone here, the 'modern comments' are TERRIBLE. Microsoft keeps introducing "updates" for the sake of changing things without asking real users about functionality. The program is becoming more and more resource-heavy. Already in the previous version, the comments were worse than in previous versions. Sometimes it's good to keep things they way they are: car designers don't move the cupholder large enough to accommodate a bucket or make the steering wheel so thickly padded that the driver can put her hands around it. I work as a copy-editor, and often leave lengthy comments. The "modern comments" are counterproductive: they take up too much space, as chiara369 explained...MICROSOFT, this is not a working document not a chat session! At least make this feature optional. There are a lot of people like me who are condemned to using MS Word for work -- editors, copy-editors, publishers, writers... -- and the program, rather than becoming lighter and more user friendly, is getting Worse and worse. This is just one in a series of very bad decisions and changes that neglect program functionality and user needs. Does anyone remember the nifty feature called "clipboard", for example, that allowed one to store up to 24 chunks of text in memory? How hard would it have been for Microsoft to maintain that? But no, it was too useful, so it had to go. When the "ribbons" came in I was very unhappy because they take up so much space. I have never got used to them and learned to create small shortcuts in the top portion of the file bar. They used to appear in color, but then, surprise surprise, Microsoft turned them monochrome making them much less legible: for instance if you have the highlighter in the shortcuts you can't see what color it is. Using Ms Word has been one long frustrating experience. Now, the most recent update makes the program almost unusable on a 13 inch monitor. You need to have 27 inch monitor to view text at a comfortable size while accommodating all the other toolbars, sidebars, ribbons... Can you make older versions available -- I would happily revert to Word 2011.5.3KViews2likes0CommentsRe: outlook.live.com not showing external images in messages
arrange messages by conversation is an ingenious workaround, but it's not for me... it messes up how I organize things and the conversation mode is counterproductive for me. mikeblas seems to be on to something when he found the blocked display code. Microsoft should just fix it... but they seem to be ignoring the problem...9KViews1like0Comments
Recent Blog Articles
No content to show