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I have some screenshots of the "install" process that I'll post on my blog later.
Anyways, I'm sitting right now on "Getting featured templates" on the Word desktop client. I just want to create a blank document!
And lest anyone suggest it, OpenOffice sucks worse.
Sadly, I can no longer use the license key that came with my MSDN subscription ages ago for Office 2010.
Marc
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I concur, it sucks big time.
I started writing my book with Word 5 (DOS) and and am (still) finishing it off using Word 2003 - I didn't see the need for anything "upgraded" beyond that.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Office 2000 works OK here. Takes a couple or three "ignore" on W10 install but Word and Excel work OK.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Forogar wrote: Word 2003 - I didn't see the need for anything "upgraded" beyond that.
The only reason I have a couple of licenses for 2010 is that 2003 doesn't have proper touch support for tablets.
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The only touching I do when typing is... touch-typing! 
When I feel the need for a tablet computer, I pull out my trusty laptop (I have a small one for portability and writing and a large one for development, etc.) and the feeling goes away. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Try LibreOffice - it sucks a bit, but I find it better than OpenOffice or Word.
The upgrade is a PITA though - it auto removes the previous version, and that loses you all pinned files from the Windows taskbar. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Try LibreOffice - it sucks a bit, but I find it better than OpenOffice or Word.
It's also got a visio-type app that can open actual visio diagrams.
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I have it at home and at work and I have no issues with it. 
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Slacker007 wrote: I have it at home and at work and I have no issues with it.
You obviously don't use it for much.
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I use it all the time.
modified 5-Jun-19 18:06pm.
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That's not what I referred to.
Some people live near the sea their entire lives, but still can't swim.
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Slacker007 wrote: I have it at home and at work and I have no issues with it.
That's not how it works. If one person has an obscure issue with one Microsoft application, then the entire company sucks!!!!!
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 Seems that way.
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I'm using Office 2003 on Win 10 at home -- with the ability to read and write the newer formats.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Sadly, I can no longer use the license key that came with my MSDN subscription ages ago for Office 2010
ebay.
Licenses for the better versions of office only cost a few quid, and you get them almost immediately.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Sadly, I can no longer use the license key that came with my MSDN subscription ages ago for Office 2010.
For legal or technical reasons?
Last time I had to go an installation of Office 2007 it activated fine. But I admit that that was a year or two ago now.
If your MSDN key activates (even if your MSDN sub is long gone) then I am pretty sure that MS isn't going to come after you for licence revenue.
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markrlondon wrote: For legal or technical reasons?
Over the years, and computer changes, I now get "too many activations." 
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Ah, sorry to hear it. It has to come to all of us, I guess. 
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New version of VS Code today[^], and what do they post as the first new feature?
Updated Visual Studio Code icon This is for the people who feel my sense of humour is "trapped in the 90s" and "too harsh on Microsoft".  
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Updated Visual Studio Code icon
Ya, so you don't update your product and then look around wondering where it went. 
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I had one of those eye rolling experiences the other day after installing the latest version of SSMS. Failure to launch...splashscreen for 5 seconds then poof...nothing. Luckily lots of other folks with the same problem and easily resolved by removing a line from the ssms.exe.config file. Still, do they test this stuff?  I would be horrified to find that any of my software was just quitting without letting the user know about it.
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The astonishing thing was that it worked for a short period and then just failed to open, thankfully the fix was simple (after I had reinstalled the bloody thing - note to self check Google before reinstalling).
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And even better:
> Depending on your platform, you may still see the earlier logo due to the operating system caching the application icon.
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Marc Clifton wrote: > Depending on your platform, you may still see the earlier logo due to the operating system caching the application icon.
What!?!
Not having access to this incredible new technology is absolutely intolerable!
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