“Select All” is Missing

OK, first off I need to vent about Word 2007. Why in the world did Microsoft feel the need to reinvent the wheel? And if the wheel really did need reinventing, why, oh why did they decide to make it trapezoidal?

My PC crashed a very final, fatal crash about six weeks ago. While I was able to salvage some of the more important things from it (pictures, a few documents), the machine itself was useless. My sister, who is in IT, was able to rebuild a machine for me from spare parts that works fine except that it cannot access our wireless internet. Without wireless internet, I cannot get the driver to get the PC to talk to my printer.

Fortunately, I had just purchased an Acer notebook less than a month before. The Acer has become my mainstay in net connectivity. I was lucky in that I was able to get Windows XP (I really didn’t want anything to do with Vista). I was unlucky in that I am now stuck with Word 2007 and Excel 2007. I cannot find ANYTHING anymore. It took me nearly five minutes just to figure out how to save document. Why in the world did they think it was an improvement to put spell-check, font changes and indents all on different tabs? And how in the world was anybody supposed to know that the decorative little Microbrain decal in the upper right corner actually hid the “save” options? I won’t even get into how they’ve completely mucked up Outlook by embedding the email options into Word now.

And where the hell did they hide “Select All”?


I was finally forced to call my former place of employment yesterday. One of the terms of my severance was that I’d be paid out all my PTO (paid time off) that I’d earned. Since I was sitting on about 74 hours worth of PTO, that was a fairly significant amount of money. The letter I’d received from them indicated that the PTO was to be paid in my final paycheck, but I didn’t know if that meant in my final earned paycheck or my final severance paycheck. The itemization on my paystub was confusing – it looked as though the PTO had been paid out, but there was no cash associated with the line item entry. I’d let it go a couple of weeks, hoping it would resolve itself and I wouldn’t actually have to call, but luck was not with me. HR’s initial reaction was that it had been paid out weeks ago, but Mr. Benefits cut himself off in midsentence when he saw that my 74 hours had zero dollars associated with it. I have been assured that this will come through on my next severance pay.

I must resist the temptation to see next week’s pay as some sort of windfall. Because most of the deductions are not being taken out of my severance (I no longer pay into the 401(k), for short or long term disability, that sort of thing), the weekly severance checks have actually been larger than my usual paychecks. Add nearly two more weeks of pay on top, and at least I’ll have a nice buffer to lean back on for a few weeks. I just need to resist feeling wealthy and making unnecessary purchases.

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2 Comments

  1. Did you find Select All yet? If not, in the "home" tab, look over at the far upper right in a small block called "Editing." Click on "Select," and it will give you the Select All option.

    You can customize Word 2007 to have your most used functions available easily, but it’s a pain in the neck to learn for the first month or so.

    Hope your PTO pay gets to you this time!

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