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To other #blind #students, what tools have you used to help you format your papers with #APA styling and #citations? My #university provides #Perrla for free to students, but it doesn't seem to be the most #accessible with #ScreenReaders, at least not the online version. I haven't tried the add-on for #MicrosoftWord. With the online version, though, I don't see any keyboard shortcuts, and when you move into the edit box to start writing a paper, focus gets trapped there and it's hard to get out, so I don't think it's the best tool for me. The only other tool I know of is the reference manager built into Microsoft Word, but it seems to have fewer features and doesn't really help you format your paper like Perrla does, something I was looking forward to since all the APA rules for styling seem hard to remember.
#College #CollegeStudent #accessibility #JAWS #ScreenReaders #writing
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Factors:
1. Accessibility. Not everyone has really fast (or stable) internet.
2. Environmental. There's no reason to use more computing power than necessary for the task at hand. It's wasteful. Very few people need the fancy features advanced text editors introduce.
3. Interoperability. Text files I write and send are readable *everywhere.* Try loading up Google Docs on a 1024x768 screen with a 256MB RAM Pentium 3. You'll be lucky if Google Docs even loads.
4. Privacy. A text file is easy to protect. GPG is the most straightforward. It remains small, and there's no way middle-men can read it. Google Docs? Google has root and they're not encrypted from them. So, good luck.
5. Account requirements. Text files require no accounts anywhere. All you need it an Internet connection and a DNS server that'll point your computer the right way. SaaS requires that you also have up-to-date software, a powerful computer, and that you register an account with them to access files shared with you.
6. Storage space. A text file takes kilobytes. A .docx file takes megabytes. My daily journal, which granted has some meta-data but is still plain text, is nearing on 580kb after three years of diligent, detailed journaling. I can't help but doubt that Word would even open a .docx file that large if formatted natively. (Thousands of headings, links, timestamps, etc.)
6. Feature-set. Plain text lets you do enough for 99% of all tasks. Yes, it's not as pretty, but within the bounds of putting characters into a file, you have complete freedom. Proprietary services, on the other hand, have a very very rich feature-set, most of which is irrelevant for 99% of users. The drawback of this is that every user is forced to load these rarely-used functions onto their own computer when the applications load up. That's wasteful, and likely cost the world hundreds of millions in unnecessary energy expenditure already.
TL;DR: Use plain text unless you absolutely positively can't help it. It's seriously better in every way.
#plaintext #emacs #txt #notepad #bloat #bloatware #saas #googledocs #msword #microsoftword #rant
RE: https://fed.bajsicki.com/notes/a6uy06mot0
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So, so true. 
(also, that's a lot of work for a 7-second video)
https://www.tiktok.com/@jessandquinn/video/7491017336883825925
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In all my years of cutting and pasting, Microsoft's assumptions about what I'm trying to select have never been correct. Ever.
It's always a fight!
When I was working at the Toronto Stock Exchange I had to create some large documents with content that was being shared with another writer. I did not trust Word's Master Document feature so came up with my own solution. It took a bit more effort than using Master Documents but was stable. I've published my guide to working with multi-file Word documents on my blog in the hope that it may help others.
https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/03/working-with-multi-file-word-documents_7.html
coredump3.blogspot.comWorking with Multi-File Word DocumentsNote : I wrote this guide about when I was working at the Toronto Stock Exchange and had to create a couple of large documents that had cont...
Cognition Dissemination: A Word About OneDrive
Absolutely do NOT rely on a program with no local saves. Thank you for listening.
https://www.dcgameblog.com/2025/02/cognition-dissemination-a-word-about-onedrive/
#Editorials #Technology #CognitionDissemination #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #MicrosoftWord
Microsoft tests ad-financed Office Light
Microsoft 365 without subscription fees, but with advertising. Some users can try this out. There are many restrictions.
Microsoft testet werbefinanziertes Office Light
Microsoft 365 ohne Abo-Gebühren, dafür mit Werbung. Das können manche User ausprobieren. Es gibt viele Einschränkungen.
heise online · Microsoft testet werbefinanziertes Office Light
#Doom ported to a standalone #MicrosoftWord document — plays well but there's no sound
6.6MB document runs on x86 systems with modern #MicrosoftOffice installations.
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/doom-ported-to-a-standalone-microsoft-word-document-plays-well-but-theres-no-sound
heise+ | Copilot in privaten Microsoft-365-Abos im Test
Microsoft integriert seinen KI-Assistenten Copilot in die Abonnements Microsoft 365 Family und Microsoft 365 Personal und hat gleichzeitig die Preise erhöht.
c't MagazinCopilot in privaten Microsoft-365-Abos im TestMicrosoft integriert seinen KI-Assistenten Copilot in die Abonnements Microsoft 365 Family und Microsoft 365 Personal und hat gleichzeitig die Preise erhöht.
Tired of inconsistent spacing in your Word docs? 
Stop hitting Enter multiple times!
My video this week reveals the secrets of paragraph spacing, including "before" and "after" settings, plus line spacing tricks. Learn how to create professional documents with ease. 
No more messy formatting!
Click the link to watch and transform your Word skills. 
https://lnkd.in/ekegyBEQ
And as always, I am looking for new video ideas. What's your biggest Word formatting frustration? Share in the replies! 
#WordTips #MicrosoftWord #DocumentFormatting #Productivity #TechTips #WordHacks
If you have a Microsoft 365 subscription and are being harassed by Copilot, this article might help you to disable it. It works for me in Word, but I don't see the disable Copilot option in Excel. (But since I now use Google Sheets for spreadsheets, it doesn't matter).
https://office-watch.com/2025/how-to-disable-copilot-in-microsoft-365/
Office Watch · How to Disable Copilot in Microsoft 365Microsoft is slowly adding an option to disable Copilot AI from their Microsoft 365 apps, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Here’s what you’re supposed to see o
I just had a painful reminder that Microsoft Word's change tracking sometimes creates gaps in footnote numbers. I knew that happens when footnotes are moved. I didn't know it also happens when punctuation before a note marker changes. Here's how to avoid that.
https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/tools/the-case-of-the-missing-footnotes-in-microsoft-word/
Words by WesThe Case of the Missing Footnotes in Microsoft WordChange tracking in Microsoft Word can cause gaps in footnote numbering. Here's what that looks like and a tip to avoid it in some cases.
This week's Featured Links post has links to articles about what the US withdrawal from the WHO will mean, how dust from chicken barns could be spreading avian flu, how authors are being victimized by AI-generated copies of their books, and more.
https://coredump3.blogspot.com/2025/01/featured-links-january-27-2025.html
#AI, #Books, #H5N1, #Medical, #MicrosoftWord, #Photography, #Politics, #Science, #SFF
coredump3.blogspot.comFeatured Links - January 27, 2025Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about. Swans on a foggy bay Cultivating fandoms . "Charles Stross...
Dear writers (but also artists of otter kinds), especially those writing smut, kink and everything in between,
Do you publish your work in form of files on various websites? Please for the love of Cthulhu - scrub your metadata! Some programs, particularly Microsoft Word really love to get very intimate with your IRL identity (by integrating with your Microsoft account) and then default to produce all documents with your legal name baked into them.
I've sent 3 messages to writers because 3 writers out of 20 stories I've downloaded off a furry website had their legal name in file metadata. 
This wasn't intended if to believe 2 of responses I've got.
If you care about separation of your online identity and IRL identity, do make sure your documents don't have more than you are willing others to see in the metadata.
After being inspired by DoomPDF (a port of Doom that will run from a PDF), software engineer Wojciech Graj (who has made other Doom projects, like an ASCII version, a Minecraft version, and a Stardew Valley version) has now made a version of Doom that runs in a 6.6MB Microsoft Word document: https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-docm.
More about it here: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/doom-ported-to-a-standalone-microsoft-word-document-plays-well-but-theres-no-sound
