22 points

Wait, it’s not just me ? How can 30 year old commercial software still be this janky ?

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Because its a mass of patches and cosmetic upgrades on top of 30 year old software

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17 points

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one that doesn’t have issues with images in word.

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56 points

Have you considered the possibility that you don’t exist?

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22 points

That’d be nice sometimes.

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10 points

You may be one of the people that format their word docs properly. I hate it when someone spams enter to create a new page.

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3 points

Control (or command) + enter for those wondering. Or via the insert menu -> “page break”.

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3 points

Damn, almost 28 years on this planet and I’ve just now learned that there’s a very handy separate option for that. Kinda makes sense if you think about it for 5 seconds, but I just never did. I do know how to deal with images properly though, so I’m not a complete idiot.

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4 points

What is this mythical feature?

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9 points

I don’t either. But I tend to use (La)TeX to typeset documents.

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8 points

LaTeX really is great.

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3 points

Can you paste an image from the clipboard and place it on the page, using a mouse, without messing up the formatting of the rest of the page in latex?

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4 points

yes; people that are complaining simply have a skill issue

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3 points

You can easily fix this by changing the image behavior too

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14 points

That’s why I’m into LaTeX

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When the LaTeX document has pixel-perfect alignment with all the images and you can still add text without things jumping around.

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7 points

Kinky

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5 points

latex is sexy

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9 points

The hours I’ve spent trying to format a Word document with images or some real classy clipart.

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FR man. I spent 2 days trying to get an image to take up the whole of page 1 in a document but couldn’t make it work so ended up just printing the photo out and stapling it to the rest of the document

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PSA: Word isn’t layout software, it’s a WYSIWYG document editor. You can change settings to make it work more like layout software, but it’s better to use a layout tool if you need that.

Recently I switched to using Affinity Publisher because it did everything I needed from InDesign. The only problem being, if I want to share files with anyone, I have to make sure they also have Affinity Publisher.

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I love affinity, it’s really really good. And I can actually fucking own it and don’t have to pay for it for the rest of my life

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