So on a whim this AM I downloaded IE 8 Beta for Giggles, and got one. IE 8 has “Activities,” which are a flavor of browser plug ins that allow sharing, emailing, and incorporating things into Facebook and the like. One of those “Activities” is emailing something via Outlook from an Email button on the browser. Clicking that button opens Outlook and resulted in this:
Ha Ha. We all like to Force Outlook to Exit. : )
K, so y’all know I’m taking these classes at the local community college, right? Word (specialist), Word (expert), and Excel. Aw yea, loads o fun. Really, I do like MS2K7 over previous editions… when I can find the right friggin’ tab. And it’s not like MS’s crappy help will give you an image with a big red arrow pointing to what you want. or even a handy file path.
So this Saturday I spent nearly all day doing 3 chapters of homework and stuff (with fun breaks here and there, like ‘put the laundry in the dryer’ and ‘mop the kitchen floor’). For whatever reason, the had-been-good-until-this-point-textbook took a break from reality and failed to clarify some ‘click heres’ in a few (most) particularly important places, resulting in some very hair tearing and frustrating hunts, for example, the elusive “Edit Image Design Tab” (which I honestly dont think exists). Finally, after doing nothing even remotely satisfying for an entire friggin’ saturday, I was done.
Come nite nite, yea, guess what I dreamt. Word. Excel. Putting images into Word. And Excel. Putting Excel into Word, and Word into Excel.
Not fun. I do NOT think dreaming about Microsoft Products is remotely gratifying.
sigh.
Yes, that’s VMware’s Fusion, allowing me to run MS Word 2007 and XP as an application on OS Tiger. : )
K, so I am taking office 2007 and excel 2007 at a local community college in order to learn 2k7 to teach it to staff (and, as a half time student, my loans are in school deferrment, aka ‘no pay’). Since I am a 100% Mac G33k, I get to install MS 2k7 on our xp box at home.
Certain people in our IT dept refer to 2k7 as having the “Big Ass Button Bar,” and boy, they werent kidding. There sure is a big ass button bar across the top of the software. But…. that big ass button bar and all the conceivably annoying menus that magically appear as you mouse near something can actually be pretty helpful… when needed. I quickly made a ppt. Which relates to our story.
So I am also curious about Outlook 2k7, so I thought I’d configure it to talk to our exchange server at work so I could test it out. So, I open Outlook, and begin to configure the account. I get the error message, “You cannot connect to an Exchange server in Outlook. Exit Outlook and add an Exchange server from the mail icon in Control Panel.” Okay. I can do that.
So I close Outlook. Go to Control Panel. Find the Mail icon. Click “Add.” So on, so forth x 3, and I get this:
Sigh.
