$150 a year, you mean
And unwanted AI features!
Software as a disservice.
LaTeX supremacy has entered that chat
Want to edit the header just on page 6? Or feel like being sexy and having a single page in landscape or a different size?
Easy! Just make a bunch of separate documents, export them as PDFs, and merge them in Adobe Acrobat.
I agree lots of things about word sucks. But FYI single page landscape is achieved by using two section breaks. It’s not ideal, but its somewhat understandable given how styles are prioritized. I’ve tried others that work well, but they also suffer on things that word does well that we take for granted.
The way it should be handled is to just let me rotate a single fucking page. It’s 2025 and there is zero excuse for that bullshit.
Like I said, I agree it sucks. I’ve had the exact same thought many times.
As someone that recalls using Word 5.5 in DOS for a book report in 5th grade, as with all things, the peak has come and gone.
IMO, the enshittification curve started about 2010ish when MS demanded internet connectivity for features that didn’t work. Saving PDFs was its peak. RIP Word 2007, which I used well into 2015.
This why LibreOffice called out Microsoft for using “complex” file formats to lock in Office users
Who knew being a monopoly and anti competitive would be so profitable.
Word works fine and has just about every feature business users needs. This stuff hasn’t been true in a long time.
Want to move an image but you don’t know how text wrapping works? Want a .DOCX editor to edit a file format from Adobe? Don’t know to R-Click? This memes for YOU!
I got so frustrated trying to use Word to write a document at work that I just gave up and wrote the whole damn thing in LaTeX. Lots of nested bulleted lists (or worse, numbered lists) and Word do not play nicely.
Sucks to be the guy who has to edit it when I’m gone.
I expected Lemmy to be less repost-obsessed than Reddit yet here we are.
My favourite feature is the insanely counter-intuitive indenting and bullet points.
The real miracle isn’t Word’s features, it’s how it’s still the default after decades of collective pain.
TGFM - Thank God for Markdown
Seriously, though. 9 times out of 10, markdown has all the formatting I need for the task at hand. On the rare occasion I need something more, I’m glad I have access to Apple Pages, but it comes with its own set of unique challenges.
Never understood the attraction. It sucks.
This comment section is like a hivemind. Can’t go a day without a circlejerk.
It’s almost like a lot of people think that MS Word sucks
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.
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…
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.
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.
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?
I believe that is the version my work has us use.
Want to see them lose their minds? Tell them you installed Word on linux.
Survival of the
fittestinescapable.
