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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 25 points 6 months ago

Wow I haven’t used Word in 20 years. They had this problem the whole time?

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

If they'd instituted Word Perfect's Reveal Codes (Alt+F3...ftw!) in 1993 or so, most of their issues would've been trivial to fix.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

That really was a good program.

[-] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

It's still around and used. I see it most often with my lawyer clients. Hotkey templates and key words. Idk when they talk about issues it sounds like marketing buzzwords to me haha. I rarely use any word processing apps.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If Word had WordPerfect's Alt+F3, I probably would have never stopped using Word. So I guess it's for the best.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Or even Ami Pro's keyboard settings, where each function key was mapped to a paragraph style. F2 = body text. F5 = bullet list. F6 = number list. F8-F12 = heading levels 1-5 (from memory, it's been a while). Function keys in Word are so useless that I can't even remember what they do (except for F9 which is super broken).

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

Wait until you see how how Godawful PowerPoint still is.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Just that name makes me shudder.

[-] oo1@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

"micro soft pp"

[-] Mad_Punda@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

And here I am stuck with Google slides.

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