I’ve been seeing this joke since I first started using Word in '03.
And it is still relevant and never gets old.
To be fair this is a little bit of an issue with Libreoffice as well
Mucked up a whole magazine I was making. Even though I fixed it on my netbook, when I transferred it to my PC, the layout became a garbled mess. Next time, I’m gonna used Scribus, even if you have to select a different font just to make text bold.
I hate Word and DOCX with a passion.
I’m looking for a new job and had someone rewrite my resumé because it hasn’t been recreated in like 8 or 9 years and I didn’t wanna do it.
They sent it to me but when I opened it in Google Docs all the bullet points had dotted boxes around them and so did the table. Any attempts at making my own edits completely SNAFU’d the formatting. Downloading the doc as PDF looked fine, but of course I couldn’t edit it easily. He was able to fix it so Docs wouldn’t bork everything with one change.
He was able to fix it so Docs wouldn’t bork everything with one change.
How 🧙♂️
(He probably didn’t say but I’m curious)
In Word there’s a button to show hidden formatting symbols like line breaks. SOMETIMES that can help but not always.
*résumé
I really tried to let it go, but I am regrettably a French.
You poor batârd.
I mean, you’re using different tools to do the same job, what did you expect?
That they be compatible with one another. Word and DOCX are the standard, but Microsoft intentionally making it difficult in order to drive profits.
You’ll never be able to predict all potential scenarios, one program will always interpret things one way and the other program will apply it’s own logic and interpret things its own way.
The only way you could have 100% compatibility is if they ran an “emulator” of each other behind the scene for when it’s a document in the competitor’s format that gets opened and I’m sure you can understand why that’s not happening…
Text wrapping is the issue. Also, enable “show non printing characters” by clicking the button with the paragraph symbol or using the shortcut: ctrl+*.
This will solve 99% of problems like the one in the meme.
Word really is the fucking worst.
I don’t want a header on page 6. Why is that such an impossible feat?
Section break (different from page break) before and after page 6. Double click header on page 6 and 7, uncheck “same as previous page”. Delete header on page 6.
You can also use this to landscape one page of your otherwise portrait document.
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It drives me crazy that I have to inscribe forbidden runes on ancient floppy discs or whatever to do something as basic as "make the top of this page different. "
I mean, I kinda knew that there is a way to do it (I’ve looked it up already). I just feel like it’s way too complicated for such a simple tasks.
Write the doc in text, then move it into LaTeX.
I use a table with invisible borders
Yea, me too. It’s an effective workaround but I believe you shouldn’t have to do it.
I remember the first time this happened to me, I was heartbroken. It was like word had betrayed me.
In the distance: sirens.
What’s one snub-nosed fighter supposed to do against that??
If you are using formatting correctly, it really shouldn’t.
“It really shouldn’t do that” was Microsoft’s slogan for awhile, I think.
Your right it shouldn’t.
But we’re using a template we copied from accounting’s template, who copied it from marketing’s template, who based it on HR’s template, who copied accounting’s template, who got it from an intern who modified it to be future proof in 1999.
Which still allows you to change the layout of the picture…
Nobody is preventing you from creating a new template if you use it that often.
Nancy the AA is stopping me from creating a new template.
Image formatting was one of the first things I learned to do in Word. Never had an issue moving images about.
It is kinda sad seeing people blame Microsoft for their own tech illiteracy.
how?
You right click the image and set they layout to be in front or behind the text.
Just anything else than “In Line with text”
Why is this behavior default if it confounds so many people?
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