#Microsoft #word on a #macbookpro M1 is extremely unreliable and often does not allow one to #save documents. Any ideas why? #msword

Judging by this Windows 95 icon I must be in Microsoft Word's historic district. #word #MSWord #microsoft

What?

Utiliser les outils Microsoft au taf, c'est toujours une surprise (rarement agréable). Ici par exemple, j'ai tenté le raccourci clavier Alt + 0183 pour avoir un point médian dans le texte que je rédige. Avant, ça fonctionnait.

Aujourd'hui, j'ai droit à ce message d'une clarté absolue...

How do people write in #MSWord without indicators to let you know when parentheses are balanced?

Has anyone else noticed that #Microsoft products seem to be extra broken these days?

#MSWord, which I have to use for work -- I never use it for personal stuff -- is just garbage.

No matter how I try to select the line of text it always goes out of its way to find text I didn't want and add it to my selection, and today I discovered that using the arrow key to step down line by line through a document regularly jumps to a point several pages away. Reproducibly.

A post on the face place reminded me that at one time back when I was still occasionally using MSFT wares I had the dominant text mincer application there tell me that

"The document is too large to save. Delete some text before saving."

(in Norwegian, evidence preserved as https://nxdomain.no/~peter/dokumentet_er_for_stort.jpg).

Now I'm a tad curious whether anyone else has been bitten by that variant. (This would have been early-noughties time if it matters)

Accurate.

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

I swear that I will never again write a scientific paper in either #MSWord or #GoogleDocs. Ever.

I don't care that my collaborators in a medical school can't handle #TeXLaTeX or #Markdown. The costs of final typesetting and conversion are just Too Fucking High.

It's costing me more than a week of my life just to do menial shit that is fully automatic with my normal workflow. smh

I know that my normal tool chain lacks some collaboration tools, but I just don't care anymore.

PSA: Finally, Paste now has Copilot!

I plan on retiring in a few years, and, I gotta say, one of the things I'm most looking forward to is uninstalling effing #MSWord, effing #Dropbox, and any number of increasingly enshittified pieces of software on my computer. Ugh.

Did you know that the history of Interlisp crossed with the history of modern word processors and MS Word?

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How to Protect Word Documents ...

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Remember, #Office365 has everything that you enter into it also go into their #AI called #CoPilot .This might not bother you, but if the subject of AI scraping your documents is important to you, then try to find an older offline copy of #MSWord . But then one problem would be to have a copy of Word on every device you use.

You can also use #LibreOffice (which I am told is very similar to Word) or #GoogleDocs (a Cloud program that probably shares your data to Google's AI), which is very similar to Word.

Free #Accessibility Workshop:
Make your Documents accessible to people who are #blind
January 28 2025, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Eastern via #Zoom
Register at:
https://nfb.org/form/accessibility-boutique-reg
#A11Y #PDF #MSWord #GoogleDocs #NFB

Just noticed my MS Office programs are still using #Calibri as the default #typeface . MS changed to
#Aptos as the default a year ago. Why are my apps still on the old fonts? I Dl'ed Aptos but can't find a way to change default in #MSWord . Suggestions?

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