Microsoft: the Picture of Frustration

You gotta love Microsoft, whose brand identity is, “We’re more frustrating than anyone else.”

I thought I had mastered forms on Word 2008. But on Word 2011, I couldn’t even find the forms controls. The built-in help was no help. Looked everywhere in vain.

Finally, someone on a bulletin board explained that you must enable the “Developer” tab. You do that by clicking on the gear symbol in the ribbon (of COURSE!), clicking on “Ribbon Preferences,” and then checking a box labeled “Developer” (of COURSE!). Now there’s a tab called “Developer,” and it has forms controls.

That was TOTALLY intuitive, don’t ya think?

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