Word

[magid]

Yesterday at work, I got an upgrade of Word (Not that I asked for one or anything. And not that they offer any training, even of the "Here's a document showing the major differences" sort.).

Today I'm trying to figure out which new, updated cute icon means "insert text box," and I go looking through all the options available under customizing my toolbar.

And in there, there's an option I've never heard of before: InsertSpike.

Hmmm. Is this something to do with cooking? (thinking of pheromone's avocado dip)
Something to do with building railroads?
Volleyball?
"Buffy"?
Body-piercing?

I haven't yet figured out what it does in Word, though... (OK, not that I actually tried the command, either.)
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Comments

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

My inner-support-person says:

My guess is that it works in conjunction with a feature that essentially puts cut or copied text on a "spike" (in offices I used to work in messages and other bits of notable scrap would be shoved onto a spike-like desk-implement for safekeeping--I think they were probably more common before sticky-notes became the rage). Anyway, what it probably means is that you can paste multiple bits of text onto a clipboard-like "spike" but unlike with the standard clipboard, the new bits of text are added to the existing contents of the "clipboard" rather than replacing them.

So, and InsertSpike command would mean, paste everything that I added to that "spike" into this place in my document now.

Partly-educated guess. I'd be interested to know if I'm right.

[gingicat]

Ah, that's where they got it from. I looked it up, and you are right. :) It's a neat idea.

They massively effed up the style and mail merge functions in Word2K, though.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I would _love_ to see what an InsertSpike in the "Buffy" style would be like :) *giggle* Great for all those business letters . . . *cackle*