Okay. This is a lame post. But still.
I have started using office 2007. It's very nice. Good to use. I love Onenote, that's great.
And I was semi-thrilled to see that there was blogging from Word. "This", I thought, "might make me actually start blogging again. How convenient!"
And then, as with everything Microsoft... the flaw. No pictures can be uploaded if you use blogger. Maybe this is MS' fault, maybe its Blogger's. But how idiotic. It's meant to be easy! And you can't even get it to play with Flickr!
I can just post with this then add a picture manually with the URL to an uploaded pic on flickr or do it in blogger itself... but if I wanted to faff about with web interfaces I'd bleeding well use those, not use Word, hop over to flickr, then back to word or blogger... IT'S MEANT TO BE CONVENIENT! Ha!
Also: Word 2007 has bibliographic functions. For an academic that's pretty handy; I've been using Endnote for years, and while my version (barely) works with Office 2k7, I also thought "aha!" (yes, I actually think like this) "I shall transfer my bibliography to Word 2007 and never pay adept science £115 again!" But no. First: it doesn't like to read Endnote files. So I find a way to translate them. Second: you can't edit output styles (funnily enough NOT everyone uses APA or Chicago styles. Not to mention, some fool at Microsoft thinks that APA and Harvard styles are the same. They're not. Plus, in Classics, there are a myriad of slight variations you might have to use. Being able to edit output styles is an absolute must: believe me, a journal editor will not accept "but Word only lets me choose these six styles" as an excuse). Third: for some reason, the same idiot at Microsoft thinks that a footnote should be presented the same way as an embedded citation. This is so dumb that... well, it's pretty dumb. Apparently they had an academic helping them; must have been an academic from the Department of Idiocy at Idiot State. Either that, or they're working for Microsoft because they couldn't get tenure anywhere because they're a bloody moron.
Okay. This is a ridiculous amount of anger about 1) blogging pictures which I hardly ever do, and have options to get around, and 2) something I already have software to deal with. My problem is that these are such potentially useful additions to word that I can't believe they've implemented them in such a half-assed way; it's like when you spot your Christmas present, it's shaped like an xbox, it's as heavy as an xbox, and then you find out its a wii. Such disappointment.
This post was brought to you by Word 2007. This is why there are no pictures. Suck it up, as Michelle Malkin likes to say.
Where will all the books go?
