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some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s almost like a lot of people think that MS Word sucks

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  • some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have no idea where they got that from. Maybe it’s something related to Office 365 or they are forced to use Word instead of something else they believe is superior. I’ve been using Word for over two decated and simply can’t understand the hate it gets.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Autosave requires the file be saved on onedrive.

      I was going to say that the only way to make it worse is if it showed ads while it autosaved, but autosave itself is literally an ad for onedrive.

      If you try any of the other decent options, some of them free, you might come to understand the contempt people have for word, because there’s nothing special about it that the others can’t do, and you have to put up with design decisions made because they have market dominance and can use that to push people towards other shit that makes them money.

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      • some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I am on Office 2019 and autosave just saves the file where you created it. There is an option to go to OneDrive, but nothing is forced. Is your problem related to Office 365?

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    • teuniac_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I recently tried to customise the indentation of a numbered list and I kind of understand the hate it gets.

      Documents where Word insists on appending an additional empty page that you can’t remove.

      Or fighting with page breaks.

      Yea I hate Word…

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      • some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Can you give me a more detailed description of what identation bug you ecountered? The options to set indentation seem straight forward. Were you using multiple nested lists? Were you working on someone else’s document?
        As fore pagebreak and empty pages, you kinda have to enable “Show paragraph marks” and see if there is something like an invisible paragraph that is inserted before the pagebreak symbol. It’s stupid, but nothing unmanagable.

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    • PolarKraken@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean you may not realize it but if you’ve been routinely using it for that long, at this point you pretty likely have well-established workarounds for the annoying bits that barely register for you as workarounds or annoying by now.

      Not too different from the phenomenon where the average subject matter expert over time grows unable to relate to or communicate effectively with people having substantially less expertise. Just cuz so much foundational stuff (lacked by novices) is just implicitly baked in, to the point it becomes invisible - water to the proverbial fish or whatever.

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      • some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s true, but you have to learn a piece of software and how it works to be able to use it effectively. I hated Linux for all its quirks and how stuff works differently from Windows. After putting work into it and learning stuff, I am no longer bitching about it as much. It seems to me that this is the same situation with Word and mostly because Microsoft are the way they are.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Want to see them lose their minds? Tell them you installed Word on linux.

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