electricland

Have been growing increasingly frustrated all morning at new computer's unwillingness to save Word toolbar customizations. Microsoft tutorials all blithely gloss over the problem, implying that they save automatically. (They don't. At least, not on my computer.) They also bring an insane level of complexity to what used to be a very simple procedure (add or move or remove a button, changes stay put forevermore).

Fortunately, before I blew my stack completely or burst into tears, genius office-mate solved the problem (his Google-fu is better than mine today, evidently). But talk about your insane levels of complexity. Here's what you do:

1. Make your changes.
2. Hold down the Shift key and click the File menu.
3. Select the "Save All" option. (This is a sooper sekrit menu option that does not appear on the ordinary File menu.) It will ask if you want to save the changes to the Normal template.
4. Click Yes.

Next time you open Word the changes will still be there! My day has just improved by about 200%!

But seriously, OMGWTFBBQ? Note that the document linked above does not mention ANY of this ANYWHERE. To be fair, it's for Word 2003 not Word 2002. But why do Microsoft's "improvements" always make my life more difficult?

Now I'm going to tell off H&M for labelling a size 10 pair of shorts size 14. They fit, but only in the way that sausage casing fits a sausage.