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submitted 11 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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Now. Why am I wrong for Libre

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[–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Again, I can fully understand if you like other tools better. More power to ya, competition is healthy and all that. But the complaints I specifically addressed are simply unfounded.

I'm not a fanboy nor do I get paid to defend Microsoft. But I have worked with Microsoft Office for 30 years now, and I do get paid to train people how to use it.

99% of users just don't have the fuckingest clue how anything works in Word. Most can't even tell a line break from a paragraph break and people still use their PC like a typewriter to indent text...in 2025 🙄

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Its amazing how much a little bit of knowledge makes your documents look so much nicer. In my image-heavy documents using page breaks can help limit cascading formatting changes for example. Throw in an autogenerated table of contents, a light drop shadow on your images, a custom template with your corporate letterhead and consistent formatting via the selected theme and you have a recipe for a very professional looking document with nice formatting

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Word is like any other word processor nowadays. Pretending it is something special is patently ridiculous.

    I was around before Word ever existed and I was never impressed because it was never impressive. In fact, I have been continually disappointed by the changes they have made to promote vendor lock in.

    I remember when their was a difference between the return key and the enter key.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Pretending it is especially unusable, you mean? Hard agree. Absolute cringe. In fact, that was my entire point.

    Nowhere did I write a glowing recommendation of Word as the superior word processing software of today. In fact, I acknowledged several times that there are other valid options out there.

    And I'm getting mighty tired of this bad faith argumentation style.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I will gladly speak to that. Is it unusable? No, it works.

    That is not saying much though. I have a ton of legitimate gripes about Word. I think their greatest sin in usability was breaking the pull down menu system which was pretty much universal in favor of the dreaded ribbon bar.

    Then not standardizing the ribbon bar and instead constantly shuffling around where things are found from version to version. It was and even to this day absolutely infuriating. The reason they did this, to promote vendor lock in is even more messed up.

    Their next biggest problem is file interoperability. Not only did did they insert their foot into any file standardization process they also even broke their own standards to once again promote vendor lock in.

    MS spent a ton of time and resources breaking standards just to force people to use their product. Excuse me if that makes me dislike them. I don't hate them because I have trouble formatting documents (although image manipulation in word is absolutely ass to this day).

    I don't like them because they are a shit company selling the same old garbage repackaged with a bow. Word should have been free software over a decade ago. Instead, people keep paying them and they keep coming up with worse ideas.

    The newest is disabling autosave unless you have OneDrive installed and activated. I literally could not believe they broke autosave, but they did. Of course they like to say it is even better now with OneDrive but we all know the truth. It is another dose of vendor lock in.

    Microsoft is a toxic company that you get to deal with for a living. Getting your feathers ruffled because someone like me is shitting on MS has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever seen. We can agree on everything I am saying. I am not here complaining why there is a extra space between paragraphs.

    I am getting mighty tired of the reality of MS. It was old thirty years ago when I first switched to Linux. They have done so much damage to computing in the name of profits it isn't funny and Word/Office has always been the gas in their vehicle to do it.

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