99% of issues people have with Word are because they never bothered to learn how to use it. Remember those IT classes back in school where they taught you how to do a mail merge? Yeah I bet you can’t remember how to do that now.
Who knew being a monopoly and anti competitive would be so profitable.
I switched to onlyoffice not looking back
My favourite feature is the insanely counter-intuitive indenting and bullet points.
I expected Lemmy to be less repost-obsessed than Reddit yet here we are.
This why LibreOffice called out Microsoft for using “complex” file formats to lock in Office users
You using complex file formats for vendor lock in
Me using complex file formats because my code base is shite.
We are not the same
I honestly have more things against excel than word… or maybe im just mad about how ribbon was stupidly implemented in excel
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.
Never understood the attraction. It sucks.
The real miracle isn’t Word’s features, it’s how it’s still the default after decades of collective pain.
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.
Bring back Word Perfect!
I read this on the “SpongeBob SquarePants” chorus voice
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 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.
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.
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 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.
Want to see them lose their minds? Tell them you installed Word on linux.
At least in Word you can rotate an image by degrees. If you want custom rotation in Paint, do you know what’s suggested? Use Word!
People aren’t paying for Word, they’re paying for Excel and getting all the other goodies included.
Yeah, LibreOffice is fine for home use, maybe even really small businesses that don’t have to trade spread sheets with external customers, but Excel is the killer app.
Calc’s a fine spread sheet program, but it’s frustrating as hell after using Excel for 30+ years. You can’t trust that it will properly import an Excel sheet and it sure won’t do macros.
100% for real. I simply can’t do freelancing Excel work with LibreOffice because I know the 1:1 compatibility falls apart quickly. Basic formulas are about as far as I can trust it.
