New toys

The spreadsheet and word processor in Works are pants. Seriously pants. And all that came with my laptop was Works. On the desktop PC I have Office 2003. Yes it's old. It runs XP but it works, although very, very slowly. Which is why I usually prefer to play work on my laptop. But Works is pants. You see my dilemma?

I love organising stuff in Excel. I have all my To Be Read books in it. All the 1001 books are listed in it with lots of bells and whistles so I can arrange them how I want, and mark off which ones I have on Mt. TBR, which ones I'm in a bookring for and which ones I've read. It keeps track of how many of each there are, by number and percentage. I had great fun working out how to do all that too.

Works doesn't do any of that. You can't even use pretty colours. It's pants.

A couple of days ago I cracked. I couldn't cope any more. I'd been looking at Excel for a while but it's so expensive and I really couldn't justify it. Then I spotted that if I bought Office suite 2010, it was actually cheaper and I'd get Word and a couple of other programs too.

I've just installed it.

It looks very different to Office 2003. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun figuring out what all those tabs and whotnots do.

I'm in software heaven.

Comments

[stacey@Havoc&Mayhem]

I just upgraded to Office 2010 from Office 2000 in October when I got the new laptop. I got a great deal bundled with the laptop.

I still can't sort out Outlook though. I can read my email but there are so many options I feel like I am not using it correctly

[Carole]

I couldn't quite run to the version with Outlook so I just have Excel & Word, which are the two programs that I really wanted, plus a couple of others that I wasn't bothered about.
I use Outlook on the desktop but I'm used to webmail on the laptop so I can manage fine without Outlook, although it would have been nice. Just not worth another £100.
They've really added a lot of stuff since the 2000/2003 versions. I was playing last night and I figured some stuff out but then decided that maybe I needed to order a book to help a little.