• some_random_nick@lemmy.world
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    3 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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      3 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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        3 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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      3 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.