[ILUG] [way OT] Word 2003 problems...

[Niall O Broin]

On 11 Jul 2005, at 17:04, P J wrote:

> At the time of posting, I was aware that this might not be the correct 
> forum.  However, I was very very desperate, and I was willing to look 
> anywhere for help.  I had tried for a few hours to resolve the 
> problem, but to be honest, I was baffled (and to be fair to me, a 
> non-techie, it was a fairly obscure problem).  I didn’t even know 
> where to begin to start looking for answers to be honest.

Google might have been a good place. And the problem was not at all 
obscure, if you know anything about Word use at all. And if you don't 
perhaps some training or reading might be in order.

> I’m sure at least some of you have done something inappropriate under 
> stress, that in hindsight you were sorry for.

Yes, but you were unlucky - you got caught :-)

> p.s. a formal policy on what is and is not acceptible on ILUG might 
> prevent future problems like this.

Well, this is the mailing list of the Irish LINUX Users Group. You can 
take it as read that anything related to Linux is fair game. The 
relationship can be tenuous in the extreme, but it's usually there.