For about two weeks, every time I
open up a Word document, I’ve gotten a message stating that my subscription is
about to expire and that I need to reactivate it. I’d click on the box saying “reactivate”
and various options would come up, the cheapest being $69.99 a year. What? Didn’t
we buy Microsoft Word when we bought the laptop last year? When I dug out the
paperwork, it clearly stated that a one year subscription came with the
purchase. How is that possible? The program is on my laptop. How is it just
going to go away in a year.
Well, it did. Or at least the
ability to do anything with all those documents did. Hundreds of them. Hundreds
of files and stories and blog posts and poems and recipes and everything which
is saved in that laptop. I just don’t get it. Even files which I wrote
previously in a different version of Word have now been sucked into the Word
2016 abyss and though I can view them, I can’t make any changes to them.
So, as I was dealing with all of
that last night, I realized that a blog post just was not going to happen
today. Yet, here I am this morning, typing this saga into the living room
desktop.
I have a few options – pay the
$69.99 to be allowed the honor of using Word for another twelve months (and
then pay again), or pay $149.99 to be granted perpetual use of Word (with no
yearly updates, whatever that is). I’ve thought about trying to put Word 2010,
which is on the desktop on the laptop. Or just saying the heck with it. I know
there are other options besides Word, but I don’t have the time to figure them
out now. I’m regretting donating my Smith Corona to Goodwill years ago.
Why does technology have to be so
difficult? And expensive? I haven’t done anything about this yet. My son seems
to think he can solve my problems and get me back up and running for cheap. We’ll
see.
Hope you are having a better week
than I am. Also, I’m trying to keep my first-world problems in perspective. Will
keep you posted.
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