Everyone who’s ever edited a document: oh there’s now a blank page at the end of this Word document, time to get rid of that!
Word: no
Everyone: please delete
Word: shan’t
Everyone: * frantically presses delete backspace delete*
Word: answer me these riddles three
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M$ Office formatting and cross-version mutations make me want to return to TXT and nothing else.
Markdown is my preference. It’s certainly not perfect for formatting. But it’s fantastically simple because it’s barely more than plain text. And it’ll usually look good in the end
Reject digital. Return to monkey.
Return to typewriter
While reading the Democratic Party’s official platform I noticed it has a couple of extra blank pages that were almost certainly inserted by Word formatting errors
ProTip: when editing large documents (especially useful for ones with images!) inserting page breaks at the end of sections of the document (shift-enter by memory) can help prevent formatting issues from cascading out of the current section of the document
It’s better to use sections or paragraphs formatted as starting on a new page. Using page breaks or lots of blank lines to get to get things paginated is how you end up with wonky formatting like blank pages.
more like
frantically presses backspace delete
Oops sorry you deleted the last three pages.
UNDO UNDO UNDO UNDO Z
Oops you have done undo too much and again deleted the last couple pages.
REDO REDO REDO
No can do, you just pressed Z after the UNDOs
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
No can do, you just pressed Z after the UNDOs
Like a time traveller who accidentally steps on a butterfly and erases the whole future that he came from
Ctrl-shift-z is not
undoredo by default, and not all office programs let you rebind it from ctrl-y.Got it the wrong around by accident. Good to know there’s a way to increase the history size.
UNDO UNDO UNDO UNDO Z
still does not apply
This shit and word “smart” selection is why i dont use word anymore.
Me: “Can you select just this word for me please?”
Word : “Fuck no, you need this entire sentence, the picture 2 pages over, and all of the extended family of that single bloody word you wanna get. Oh and you have been upgraded from a sentence to a paragraph.”
I am convinced that powerpoint is the only good app that microsoft has ever developed, since it doesnt work against you every step of the way
Yes, I hate that shit. I know how to click on the spot where I want to start highlighting.
Their programs are so awful it would be laughable, if they didn’t have market dominance.
Back in the 90s, there was this excel precursor called lotus, that thing was a beast, it supported 3d cells, graphs, everything. If you can make it in excel, you can make it in lotus and add extra things without even trying. From what i heard from the older generation is that excel now only supports half of what lotus did.
I remember Lotus. WTF ever happened to them?
Oh you wanted to select just 3 letter from a word?
No you fucking didnt here is the whole word selected.
My biggest problem with Microsoft 365 is that it obstinately keeps using localized keyboard shortcuts, so if you’re an non-English speaker, the usual English shortcuts like Ctrl+f don’t fucking work.
I’m with you, drives me nuts that it is basically a guessing game on whether the shortcut for bolding the font is either Ctrl-B or Ctrl-G (gras, bold in French) and it varies by software, region, time of the day…
Plus, previous versions had a shortcut which I memorized despite it being stupid. Now they changed it.
Hey, wanna know something even more awful?
Excel function names are localized.Computing features dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
Not just the function names, since comma and dot are used as decimal separator so semicolons replace commas between function arguments in my locale.
I hate how I never know if I need to use dots or commas for decimal separator in excel.
IIRC it still works if you use English names
This happens to me on Google docs too. One time I literally had to create a new doc and copy and paste the content to get rid of the page.
Truth. I’m not good at riddles so my resume in Word has an extra page I can’t get rid of. No there are no tables, yes I can see formatting, and deleting the page break massively fucks up the formatting for the whole document. I have to print to PDF then edit the PDF to delete the blank page. It’s a huge hassle. But I don’t have to deal with it very often so it is not really worth fixing.
Just print the page range to pdf excluding the last page? Saves an editing step. Like 1-8 if page 9 is empty.
Ha! I feel so dumb right now.
Evoking within me the Michael Scott shan’t voice as the temporary voice of Word is genius.
I was wondering if it was a reference to something
I hate Word with the power of a trillion suns. Word is our continuing punishment from God for Adam and Eve nicking that damn apple.
I use Pages for 90% of my word processing work, but there are times when my documents have to be accessed by Windows users. Those times make me sad.
Never had this happen.
Happens a lot if there’s a table at the end of a page. None of the table spills onto the next page but for some reason word wants to give it extra space.
Yea, now that you mention it that does happen, i thought the post was about plain text.
Who out there pressing delete backspace delete like some sort of nitwit who hasn’t typed before?
Backspace deletes previous character.
Delete deletes next character.
expecting keys to work in their intended way in word
Oh my sweet summer child.
Seriously. One eventually learns most of the ways that Word breaks reality itself to provide mediocre desktop publishing and organizational features in an upjumped text editor, but sometimes you just spam vaguely related keys until it sorta works.
Jimmy in Contracts still has a facial tic from that SoW in aught-nine.
Who out there pressing delete backspace delete like some sort of nitwit who hasn’t typed before?
Linux users?
Ah. I will see your keystroke and raise you the insertion of a delete character on your terminal. Your move.
No, you’re supposed to type delete like its a vim command
Yeah, could have guessed from the amount of downvotes.
