XPfails – luggable – Microsoft WORD kludges my doc

Saturday, February 3, 2007

I was doing the alumni ezine. As I was finishing the index, poof! WORD decided I needed a new page placed along side the first page. In effect, it folded my doc as if it was a two column newspaper.

I fired up Open Office and could see some of the problems.

I wriggled around like a dead fish.

Finally I had the idea of saving it as an RTF. That didn’t clear the problem but it put me on the track of a solution.

I saved it as WORD60 format. Then, when I reopened it I could delete the break.

Argh.

Very very ugly.


XPfails – luggable – Slow Down

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Luggable has just slowed to a crawl. Maybe a reboot will clear it?


XPfails – luggable – mouse unresponsive

Sunday, January 28, 2007

woke up this morning, always a good thing, to find an unresponsive mouse. Reboot. Seems like the mttf is a day. Less if I exercise it. Argh!


XPfails – luggable – Mouse begins to flake

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Sigh. Reboot.


XPfails – luggable – Box locks up after LookOut “forgets” a reminder

Monday, January 22, 2007

Eventually the box became unresponsive after LookOut “forgot” one it’s reminders. It was never able to recapture it.


XPfails – luggable – WORD blanks a document that I created yesterday ARGH!

Monday, January 22, 2007

This is a first. WORD basically “lost” a document I created yesterday. Basically, now it has to be treated as untrustworthy. Perhaps it’s time to move to Open Office?


XPfails – luggable – TYPE1 Box eventually becomes unresponsive

Sunday, January 21, 2007

First CARDSCAN, then Outlook, become unresponsive. Eventually everything including TASKMANAGER does the same thing. Power Off. Argh!


XPfails – luggable – EDITPRO fails and eventually locks the box

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Kodak and Syncura didn’t uninstall right. Reinstall and uninstall?


XPfails – luggable – WINDOZE developed Alzheimer’s

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

It forgot where the internet was? Symptom nothing was resolving by name. Ping worked fine. DNS worked on other boxes. All that was left was a reboot. Argh!


XPfails – luggable – Reinstall, reboot, try again and again

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

I guess the XP gnome — annoying creature that it is — decided that if I was really going to keep rebooting until I got wireless connectivity back to my home network, then it’d eventually relent and give it back. Argh!