Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I'm Not Smart Enough For MS Word



So I'm sitting around last night after a sweaty run and my wife, using my MacBook Pro, asks me to help her delete some pages from her word document. She had been creating a resume, cover letter, etc. Like the rest of us I've used MS Word more than ANY program ever... over the different generations of it anyway.

Now being in design school and being fairly proficient with many different design programs like photoshop, illustrator, indesign as well as many other random web/image/video/sound editing programs has made me confident in my general computer skills; those needed to operate MS Word included.

There I am looking at the interface, which isn't bad by any means, and I'm clicking around learning a bit about Word 2008 for my Mac. I can't seem to delete a page easily so I find a help article being the responsible user I am.



"Wow that help was easy to use," I thought to myself. "Good work MS!" But as I followed this so called help's instructions for this standard toolbar button I lost my mind a little. I stared at the screen and searched through menus for 15 minutes strait. My wife told me she'd figure it out but I would have none of that! I had been asked to help and I would help by god!

Fail. Pwn'd by MS Word. I'll never here the end of it...

New game! Can you spot the delete page button?


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