Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Working with Wordfast Classic and Excel
Poster: neilmac
Post title: Don't shoot the messenger
[quote]Anne Greaves wrote:
... I am not happy that having spent a lot of money upgrading Office, computer and renewing my Wordfast licence, I now find that I have lost this facility on my PC. [/quote]
I'd blame Microsoft for this rather than WF. Mr Gates and co are notorious for gavaging us with unnecessary updates and so-called "improvements". I still haven't forgiven them for introducing the "ribbon" type toolbar, and I was quite happy using office 2003 until I suddenly found I could no longer use my CD dictionaries on the 64-bit platform for subsequent versions. As a result, I now have office 2003, 2007 and 2010 on different computers just in case similar compatibility issues crop up. I wouldn't normally install Office 2013 voluntarily either, which as far as I can see simply looks nice but offers no real improvements compared to earlier versions. However, a month or two ago I had my backup PC serviced due to wi-fi connection issues and my tech guy convinced me that 2013 was worthwhile because it allows you to make nicer looking documents, so I let him install it for me. So far, I've only used WF with it on Word documents and it seemed to work fine. I didn't know that it won't work with Excel or PowerPoint, so the points raised forum come in really handy for me!
I assume the issue can be resolved by saving the Excel files in an earlier version....?
[Edited at 2014-12-14 15:12 GMT]
Topic: Working with Wordfast Classic and Excel
Poster: neilmac
Post title: Don't shoot the messenger
[quote]Anne Greaves wrote:
... I am not happy that having spent a lot of money upgrading Office, computer and renewing my Wordfast licence, I now find that I have lost this facility on my PC. [/quote]
I'd blame Microsoft for this rather than WF. Mr Gates and co are notorious for gavaging us with unnecessary updates and so-called "improvements". I still haven't forgiven them for introducing the "ribbon" type toolbar, and I was quite happy using office 2003 until I suddenly found I could no longer use my CD dictionaries on the 64-bit platform for subsequent versions. As a result, I now have office 2003, 2007 and 2010 on different computers just in case similar compatibility issues crop up. I wouldn't normally install Office 2013 voluntarily either, which as far as I can see simply looks nice but offers no real improvements compared to earlier versions. However, a month or two ago I had my backup PC serviced due to wi-fi connection issues and my tech guy convinced me that 2013 was worthwhile because it allows you to make nicer looking documents, so I let him install it for me. So far, I've only used WF with it on Word documents and it seemed to work fine. I didn't know that it won't work with Excel or PowerPoint, so the points raised forum come in really handy for me!
I assume the issue can be resolved by saving the Excel files in an earlier version....?
[Edited at 2014-12-14 15:12 GMT]