Word ™ is dead.
April 8th, 2016
Alas, poor Word ™, I hardly knew ye. Ye? What am I, a six hundred year old British guy?
But yeah, my copy of Office finally died. It technically expired last week, but I made it a point to not actually shut the program down. As such, I could apparently continue to edit the file I had open on that date, so I kept using it to cut and paste in text to spell check. But for some reason, probably an automagical Windows ® update, everything shut down this morning.
And thus, I was denied the use of Word.
On the plus side, the company just began offering us the option to purchase a permanent copy of Office 2016 through their 'partnership' with Microsoft ™. And this for only ten dollars! Mind you, we were only allowed to buy one copy per person, so the copy I had seized went to Brenda - because she needed it more than I. One would think this would've been the end of it, but no!
I sweet talked one of the old ladies at work, the one who wrecked me yesterday with those awful quote marshmallow treats, and got my hands on her purchase 'slot'. This was easier than it might sound, because our conversation consisted of me asking her if she needed her cheap copy of Office, and her saying 'Heck no.' Well, all right, that's not entirely accurate.
It would be, though, if you replaced the word 'heck' with another four letter word that ends with 'ck'.
So now Office Professional 2016 is downloading itself to my laplet as I type this, which is actually a more robust software package than I had to start with. And I only had to pay ten bucks for it, and ten bucks for the previous one, and of course fifteen dollars for the backup disc. Which I always buy whenever possible, because you never know when the Internets is going to fail you.
Or, you know, you've got perpetually crappy work WiFi.