let's play: find the main menu
Mar. 11th, 2010 04:24 pmThe essay was due in half an hour when I finally finished it. Relieved that I had made it in time, I scanned it over one last time while searching for the print button. It was at this time I noticed that the layout of the program was not one I was familiar with. "Microsoft Word 2007," I wondered. "And it looks like everyone thinks just plain gray won't do these days. What a shame."
Suddenly I stopped. Where was the printing option? The familiar printer icon seemed to have disappeared completely. But surely I would find one in one of the sub-leafs so graciously offered to me. The clock was ticking, but I was not worried.
No such luck - I could have played around with the fonts and colours as much as I liked, but the printing option alone simply did not exist anymore. Had I perhaps opened the document in some strange program not used for word processing instead? But the answer was just a glance away: Microsoft Windows 2007. This was all I was given, and it would have to do.
I found a space for quick options. Only "save" and "undo typing" were provided, but with my cunning mind I soon had added a new one, the only one available that could help me: quick print. So I clicked it. Unfortunately, as in all computers in this goddamn university, the default printer was one that didn't exist. To change it, I would need to access the main printing options. Cold sweat started to form on my forehead. I was back in square one, and the deadline was approaching.
At this point I threw away all pride as a regular computer-user and consulted google. Microsoft's own page was spectacularly unhelpful, as its guide to printing went, and these are the exact words, "Print is just like the print of good old Word 2003 days." WHY THANK YOU. In the end the answer to my prayers was found in a helpful youtube video, "how to save and print in Microsoft Word 2007", from which I finally, finally managed to decipher the exact location of the main menu, and---
Microsoft layout designers?
(In hindsight the fault is mine for not just blindly clicking in the direction of the upper left corner, but still, damn. MICROSOFT, THAT IS YOUR LOGO.)
Suddenly I stopped. Where was the printing option? The familiar printer icon seemed to have disappeared completely. But surely I would find one in one of the sub-leafs so graciously offered to me. The clock was ticking, but I was not worried.
No such luck - I could have played around with the fonts and colours as much as I liked, but the printing option alone simply did not exist anymore. Had I perhaps opened the document in some strange program not used for word processing instead? But the answer was just a glance away: Microsoft Windows 2007. This was all I was given, and it would have to do.
I found a space for quick options. Only "save" and "undo typing" were provided, but with my cunning mind I soon had added a new one, the only one available that could help me: quick print. So I clicked it. Unfortunately, as in all computers in this goddamn university, the default printer was one that didn't exist. To change it, I would need to access the main printing options. Cold sweat started to form on my forehead. I was back in square one, and the deadline was approaching.
At this point I threw away all pride as a regular computer-user and consulted google. Microsoft's own page was spectacularly unhelpful, as its guide to printing went, and these are the exact words, "Print is just like the print of good old Word 2003 days." WHY THANK YOU. In the end the answer to my prayers was found in a helpful youtube video, "how to save and print in Microsoft Word 2007", from which I finally, finally managed to decipher the exact location of the main menu, and---
Microsoft layout designers?
(In hindsight the fault is mine for not just blindly clicking in the direction of the upper left corner, but still, damn. MICROSOFT, THAT IS YOUR LOGO.)
