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Everyone who’s ever edited a document: oh there’s now a blank page at the end of this Word document, time to get rid of that!
Word: no
Everyone: please delete
Word: shan’t
Everyone: * frantically presses delete backspace delete*
Word: answer me these riddles three
This shit and word "smart" selection is why i dont use word anymore.
Me: "Can you select just this word for me please?"
Word : "Fuck no, you need this entire sentence, the picture 2 pages over, and all of the extended family of that single bloody word you wanna get. Oh and you have been upgraded from a sentence to a paragraph."
I am convinced that powerpoint is the only good app that microsoft has ever developed, since it doesnt work against you every step of the way
Oh you wanted to select just 3 letter from a word?
No you fucking didnt here is the whole word selected.
Yes, I hate that shit. I know how to click on the spot where I want to start highlighting.
more like
frantically presses backspace delete
Oops sorry you deleted the last three pages.
UNDO UNDO UNDO UNDO Z
Oops you have done undo too much and again deleted the last couple pages.
REDO REDO REDO
No can do, you just pressed Z after the UNDOs
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
No can do, you just pressed Z after the UNDOs
Like a time traveller who accidentally steps on a butterfly and erases the whole future that he came from
Ctrl-shift-z is not ~~undo~~ redo by default, and not all office programs let you rebind it from ctrl-y.
Got it the wrong around by accident. Good to know there's a way to increase the history size.
UNDO UNDO UNDO UNDO Z
still does not apply
Easy. Print the document. Throw away the blank last page. Scan the document. Save as Word file.
Wait, why the fuck is there still a blank page at the end?
I hate Word with the power of a trillion suns. Word is our continuing punishment from God for Adam and Eve nicking that damn apple.
I use Pages for 90% of my word processing work, but there are times when my documents have to be accessed by Windows users. Those times make me sad.
Word is the fucking worst.
"Hey Word - I need to adjust the header for just this page."
"No."
"Can I just remove the header in this page then?"
"No"
"How about the watermark? It's in the way on this page?"
"It's tied to the header."
"... I'm gonna have to make like 12 documents and combine them in Acrobat aren't I."
"Please log back into OneDrive."
In the distance, sirens.
In case you're in this situation in future, you can use section breaks before and after the page and give the middle section a different header/footer. It's still not great because you can't (to my knowledge) tie the section before to the section after so now you have to change both the first and third sections any time you want to adjust the main header/footer.
This happens to me on Google docs too. One time I literally had to create a new doc and copy and paste the content to get rid of the page.
Evoking within me the Michael Scott shan't voice as the temporary voice of Word is genius.
I was wondering if it was a reference to something
For the love of God and all that is holy, do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT embed a table into Word, from an Excel file, and leave it linked.
It gives you the option and it seems like it should work, so that when you update the Excel document, then later access the word document, it will update that embedded table with the new data in the linked Excel file.
Nope. It will lock up Word, Excel, your fucking computer, even if you open in safe mode and delete that table, everything is fucked.
Just delete the word doc, that Excel file, and start over without linking anything. It will be less frustrating.
It might even be less frustrating to throw the whole computer away, quit your job, divorce your wife, move to another country, learn that language and start over from scratch.
I mean it was that fucking annoying, trying to get access to that document, to even copy the text, and put in a fresh word doc.
And Google/MS Help seems to think this problem does not exist.
Except I'm the idiot that tries it the second time and the same thing happened. (For context, the first time was in college, the second time was years later, at my job. So, completely different settings, computers, versions, etc...)
You have convinced me to try it on someone else's computer
Asciidoctor, RestructuredText, Typst, Orgmode, there it works.
*laughs in LibreOffice*
I don't like that it insists on resetting to that Liberation font half the time I make a new line though
LibreOffice was very useful whenever i was asked to use MS Office, it's the shit
If you go into the Styles menu (either the F10 or F11 key, I forgot) you can change the font of the Default Paragraph (or something akin to that name) to the font of your choice.
I haven't used LibreOffice Writer in a while, though, so I'm not sure if that change will stay between sessions, but it should.
very, very, Very, VERY, VERY late edit for people from the future: The styles are saved in the .odt document itself