I have been in the computer business for a very long time. My first real computer experience was using the WordStar word processor on a CP/M computer (that was before DOS and years before Windows) and porting the output to a Compugraphic EditWriter 7500, which put the whole thing at about 1977 (though I once had a job before that inputting information to a Friden Flexowriter). All of that is just to say that I have had a lot of experience and been around the block more than once. For a very long time, Ashland University used Google for all of our email and most of our student word processing, then in the summer of 2023 we made a switch to being a 100% Microsoft campus. The switch has not been an easy one, and this blog is intended to help you over some of the rough spots. A bit more about me (in the spirit of full disclosure). Though I got into Windows with version 3.0 and really fell in love with Microsoft Word 2.0 (that would have been about 1983), I no longer use anyth
I did like the desktop version of MS Word, before they set that to read-only (which is pretty much useless for any work I do). The replacement, Microsoft 365, has a lot of glitches and weirdness and is really unsuitable for serious writing, so here is a link to my discussion of better alternatives: Choosing a Word Processor .