(no subject)

[lemiru]

Handy dandy tutorial on "How to react when Open Office refuses to open a Word document when said document was written on a mac and you know it's fine OO is just being a dick because it knows it's bank holidays and you can't go to uni to open said document". (also known as the HTRWOORTOAWDWSDWWOAMAYKIFOOIJBADBIKIBHAYCGTUTOSD-procedure):

- Flip the fuck out
- Curse OO in all languages you know
- Curse OO in languages you don't know
- Curse OO in languages you just made up
- Cry (only not really but feel like crying)
- Give up
- Don't give up because damnit
- Convert the .doc into a PDF
- Open PDF because Adobe Reader isn't a dick
- ???
- profit

Please take notes, there will be a test on this stuff.

Comments

[bf-nightingale.livejournal.com]

Oh my woes when OO refused to do what I needed it to do RIGHT NAO BECAUSE DAMMIT I NEED THIS LIEK LAST WEEK AND WHY DOES THIS NOT WOOOOOORK! ;____;
All those fond memories. That was the good stuff. Only not! D:

...in other words, I can relate. Not with the same problems, but a lot of precious time was wasted anyway. But good thing you made it work with Adobe Reader then.^^;

[lemiru.livejournal.com]

Luckily, it was just resources I needed and not a doc I needed to write into, so I could just print them out.

I'm still magnificently pissed at OO though.


>=[

[bf-nightingale.livejournal.com]

Do I dare to ask how much time you needed until you figured out another possibility? D:

[lemiru.livejournal.com]

about half an hour, some of it were spent on the "crying" and "give up" steps. Those are always very time-consuming, for som reason...